Bildungsromans
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Of Human Bondage
$5.95 Add to cartFrom a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to tr… [more below]
- Author: Maugham, W. Somerset
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0451530179
- Language: English
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Red Sky at Morning
$16.99 Add to cart“Red Sky at Morning is a minor marvel: it is a novel of paradox, of identity, of an overwhelming YES to life that embraces with wonder what we are pleased to call the human condition. In short, a work
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Bradford, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0060931906
- Language: English
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Brick Lane
$20.00 Add to cart“A book you won’t be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political a… [more below]
- Author: Ali, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0743243315
- Language: English
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Endless Love
$16.99 Add to cart“Scott Spencer writes about love’s tenacity with passionate intensity….From his remarkable opening sentence he had me in thrall.”
—NewsweekFirst published three decades ago, and hailed as “one of
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Spencer, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0061926000
- Language: English
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Fat City
$17.95 Add to cartFat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lid
- Author: Gardner, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1590178920
- Language: English
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Coffee Will Make You Black
$16.99 Add to cart“A funny, fresh novel about growing up African-American in 1960s Chicago” by an author who “writes like Terry McMillan’s kid sister” (Entertainment Weekly).
In this hilarious and insightful coming-of- Series: Stevie Stevenson #1
- Author: Sinclair, April
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1504058526
- Language: English
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Ojos Azules / The Bluest Eye
$14.95 Add to cart- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 8497932668
- Language: Spanish
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Inherited Family
$19.95 Add to cartAfter the sudden death of his parents, fourteen year old Mark Talbot’s comfortable and sheltered world crashes around him. His uncle, following instructions in his father’s will, sends Mark to New Zea
- Author: Fox, Robert Barlow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0865344884
- Language: English
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Cool for You
$16.95 Add to cartGrainy and stripped down, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a tough, queer girl growing up in working-class Boston by “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their … [more below]
- Author: Myles, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1619029170
- Language: English
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American Wife
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and fate into a brilliant portrait of a first lady–from the author of Rodham and Eligible
“Terrific . . . an in- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Sittenfeld, Curtis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: February 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0812975405
- Language: English
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Oliver Twist
$14.00 Read moreThe tale of a waif’s unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves, this novel offers a realistic portrait of the correlation between poverty and crime.
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0486424537
- Language: English
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My Struggle: Book 5
$29.00 Add to cartThe fifth installment in the multi-volume, internationally celebrated My Struggle series from Karl Ove Knausgaard.
The fifth book of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s powerful My Struggle series is written with t- Series: My Struggle #5
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0374534187
- Language: English
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The Lodger, That Summer
$14.99 Add to cartIt’s a hot summer Down Under and everyone’s got sex on the mind.
Eighteen year-old James has had a tough year. Having lost his mother to cancer and fought through grief to finish high school, he’s now
- Author: Huxton, Levi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: January 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0646836145
- Language: English
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Great Expectations
$11.00 Add to cartIntroduction by George Bernard Shaw – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757015
- Language: English
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Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man
$19.95 Add to cartA fresh and vivid translation of Flaubert’s influential bildungsroman
Gustave Flaubert conceived Sentimental Education, his final complete novel, as the history of his own generation, one that failed
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1517914132
- Language: English
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Tomorrow Will Be Better
$17.99 Add to cart“A rediscovered treasure.” — Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post
From Betty Smith, author of the beloved classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes a poignant story of love, marriage, poverty, and hope set
- Author: Smith, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0062988689
- Language: English
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Bright
$16.95 Add to cartWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to wait for him in front of some run-down apartment buildings, the confused boy does as told-he waits, and waits, and waits, until he realizes his fathe
- Author: Pimwana, Duanwad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1931883807
- Language: English
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The Hammerhead Chronicles
$21.99 Add to cartThe latest novel from critically acclaimed Southern storyteller Scott Gould, The Hammerhead Chronicles explores the effects of grief, racism, homophobia, revenge, love, and loss on an oddball cast of
- Author: Gould, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1940771773
- Language: English
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Popco
$15.95 Add to cartPopCo tells the story of Alice Butler-a subversively smart girl in our commercial-soaked world who grows from recluse orphan to burgeoning vigilante, buttressed by mystery, codes, math, and the sense … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Scarlett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 015603137X
- Language: English
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One Tiny Lie
$17.00 Add to cartIn this follow-up novel to the bestselling Ten Tiny Breaths, Livie Cleary faces a new set of challenges as she navigates freshman year at Princeton, wild parties, and the gorgeous rowing team captain … [more below]
- Series: Ten Tiny Breaths #3
- Author: Tucker, K. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 147674047X
- Language: English
