Bildungsromans
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The Boy Lost in the Maze
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the UK Children’s Laureate comes a spellbinding YA novel in verse blending the ancient myth of Theseus and the Minotaur with the quest of a modern-day teen in search of his father.
Theo, a sevent- Author: Coelho, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 26, 2024
- ISBN10: 1536236411
- Language: English
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Lucky Girl
$18.00 Add to cartLonging for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a life in New York City that challenges all her beliefs about race, love, and family.
“Readers will fi- Author: Muchemi-Ndiritu, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 2, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593133900
- Language: English
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The Warriors
$17.00 Add to cartThe basis for the cult-classic film The Warriors chronicles one New York City gang’s nocturnal journey through the seedy, dangerous subways and city streets of the 1960s. Every gang in the city meets … [more below]
- Author: Yurick, Sol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 181
- Publish Date: April 7, 2003
- ISBN10: 0802139922
- Language: English
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$27.00 Read moreAn autobiographical novel from ?douard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation–about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.
One question t- Author: Louis, Édouard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0374606803
- Language: English
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The Last Song
$18.99 Add to cartA rebellious teenager spends the summer with her divorced parents in a North Carolina beach town in this New York Times bestseller of family connection and first love from the author of A Walk to Reme… [more below]
- Author: Sparks, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 1538743280
- Language: English
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Brother & Sister Enter the Forest
$27.00 Read moreFinalist for the Lambda Literary Awards
Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age novel follows a youn
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice- Author: Mirabella, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1646221176
- Language: English
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Morning and Evening
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, … [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Fosse, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 107
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1628975520
- Language: English
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The Smoke in Our Eyes
$26.95 Add to cartAn action-filled coming of age novel about love, vengeance, corruption, and justice by the acclaimed author of Six Days of the Condor.
“Grady’s style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I somet- Author: Grady, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 6, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365990
- Language: English
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Honeybees and Distant Thunder
$26.95 Add to cartTHE MILLION-COPY AWARD-WINNING JAPANESE BESTSELLER
“Onda’s rich descriptions capture often elusive topics–music and longing–and bring the classical repertoire to vivid life.” —People, BEST NEW BOOK- Author: Onda, Riku
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 2, 2023
- ISBN10: 163936403X
- Language: English
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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
$28.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times Bestseller – Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction
“A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much brie- Author: Vuong, Ocean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 525562028
- Language: English
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Sea Change
$17.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK – An enchanting novel about Ro, a woman tossed overboard by heartbreak and loss, who has to find her way back to stable shores with the help of a giant Pacific o… [more below]
- Author: Chung, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593469348
- Language: English
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Here, and Only Here
$21.00 Read moreThe new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Mirror Visitor Quartet
Welcome to the School of Here, an unsettling and peculiar place that is nonetheless familiar to us all. A place ful
- Author: Dabos, Christelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1609459563
- Language: English
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Where the Crawdads Sing (Movie Tie-In)
$18.00 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 15 million copies sold, “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of- Author: Owens, Delia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593540484
- Language: English
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Anne of Green Gables
$5.95 Add to cartFall in love with spirited, redheaded orphan Anne Shirley as she wins the hearts of everyone in the small town of Avonlea in this beloved children’s classic.
For generations, readers have been charmed- Series: Anne of Green Gables Novels
- Author: Montgomery, L. M.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0451528824
- Language: English
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Girl in Translation
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Searching for Sylvie Lee, the iconic, New York Times-bestselling debut novel that introduced an important Chinese-American voice with an inspiring story of an immigrant girl forced … [more below]
- Author: Kwok, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 1594485151
- Language: English
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Some Places More Than Others
$7.99 Add to cartFrom Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ren e Watson comes a heartwarming and inspiring novel for middle schoolers about finding deep roots a
- Author: Watson, Renée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1681191105
- Language: English
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Sweetness in the Skin
$30.00 Read more“A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.”–Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake
One of the BBC and Zibby Mag’s Most Ant
- Author: Robinson, Ishi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063334879
- Language: English
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The Red Pony
$12.00 Add to cartRaised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher’s life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special con… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 1, 1993
- ISBN10: 0140177361
- Language: English
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Dear Edward
$29.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY – “Make sure you have tissues handy when you read [this] sure-footed tearjerker” (NPR) about a young boy who must learn
- Author: Napolitano, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 06, 2020
- ISBN10: 198485478X
- Language: English
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Goodbye, Mr. Terupt
$8.99 Add to cartThe seven kids who bonded in Mr. Terupt’s fifth-grade class are now in eighth grade, reunited with their beloved teacher, and vow to make the year as memorable as possible.
Jeffrey, Alexia, Anna, Dani- Author: Buyea, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525648011
- Language: English
