Bildungsromans

  • Women and Children First

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    “I am a big fan of Women and Children First . . . Alina Grabowski is an astute and limber narrative artist and I could read her prose all day long and never grow weary.”–Lorrie Moore, author of A Gat

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    • Author: Grabowski, Alina
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: May 07 2024
    • ISBN10: 1638930783
    • Language: English
  • Rainbow Black

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    I’ve loved Maggie Thrash’s work for years, and Rainbow Black is going to set so many new hearts aflame–murder, intrigue, queer love, dark humor AND satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash Fan Cl

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    • Author: Thrash, Maggie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: March 19, 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063286874
    • Language: English
  • Nowhere Better Than Here

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    In a town slowly being destroyed by rising tides, one girl must fight to find a way to keep her community’s spirit from drowning.

    For thirteen-year-old Jillian Robichaux, three things are sacred: bayo

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    • Author: Guillory, Sarah
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 20 2022
    • ISBN10: 1250824265
    • Language: English
  • The Stone Home

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    “It is a privilege to read Crystal Hana Kim’s fiction, which both edifies and enlightens.” –Min Jin Lee

    A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Kor

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    • Author: Kim, Crystal Hana
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: April 2, 2024
    • ISBN10: 006331097X
    • Language: English
  • River Mumma: A Breathtaking Fantasy Novel Brimming with Magical Realism

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    River Mumma is a love letter to culture, home, and coming of age–and will spark important, relevant book club conversations, too.” –Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky

    Iss

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    • Author: Reid-Benta, Zalika
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: February 20 2024
    • ISBN10: 1645661350
    • Language: English
  • Split Tooth

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    Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
    Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
    Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
    Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Publis
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    • Author: Tagaq, Tanya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: September 24 2019
    • ISBN10: 014319805X
    • Language: English
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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    James Joyce’s coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique

    The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce’s novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dubli

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Joyce, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: March 25 2003
    • ISBN10: 0142437344
    • Language: English
  • Creeping Beauty

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    From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Misfit comes a subversive and feminist take on Sleeping Beauty, sure to appeal to fans of Damsel and To Kill a Kingdom.

    The dark and deadly world of Heartl

    • Author: Portes, Andrea
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: August 22, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0062422472
    • Language: English
  • Never Let Them See You Bleed

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    From the bestselling masters of the Old West comes the first in a blazing new series about a young deputy sheriff’s
    coming of age–and trial by gunfire–in a small Texas town. This is the blistering s

    • Series: A Tinhorn Western
    • Author: Johnstone, William W.
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: February 20, 2024
    • ISBN10: 0786051167
    • Language: English
  • Big Girl

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    “Alive with delicious prose and the cacophony of ’90s Harlem, Big Girl gifts us a heroine carrying the weight of worn-out ideas, who dares to defy the compulsion to shrink, and in turn teaches us to p

    • Author: Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: June 13, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1324093595
    • Language: English
  • Normal People

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    NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE – “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author o

    • Author: Rooney, Sally
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 16, 2019
    • ISBN10: 1984822179
    • Language: English
  • The Best at It

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    From award-winning actor Maulik Pancholy comes a hilarious and heartfelt middle grade debut about a gay Indian American boy coming into his own. One of Time Out’s “LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during

    • Author: Pancholy, Maulik
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 06, 2020
    • ISBN10: 0062866427
    • Language: English
  • Shmutz

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    “Hilarious and endearing…Shmutz is a dirty book with a pure heart.” –The New York Times

    In this witty, provocative, and “compulsively readable coming-of-age story” (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic

    • Author: Berliner, Felicia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: May 16, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1982177632
    • Language: English
  • Briefly, a Delicious Life

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    *A Cosmopolitan Best Book of Summer * One of BuzzFeed‘s Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books*

    An “exquisite…too lovely to bear” (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel from an award-winning writer: a

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    • Author: Stevens, Nell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: 25-Jul-23
    • ISBN10: 1982190957
    • Language: English
  • Wild Wishes and Windswept Kisses

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    How much can change in a day? Nidhi, Avani, Sirisha, and Rani are about to find out in this follow-up to Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things, a Children’s Book Council Young Adult Favorite of 2023.

    • Author: Prasad, Maya
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: October 17, 2023
    • ISBN10: 136808124X
    • Language: English
  • West of the Sea

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    Tae Keller meets Tracey Baptiste in a tale of generational trauma, told with a cryptozoological twist.

    Paleontology-loving Haven West and her older sister, Margie, have hardly talked with their mom si

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    • Author: Willing, Stephanie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: August 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593465571
    • Language: English
  • Tin Man

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    “My favorite book of the year was Tin Man. Sparsely written and achingly beautiful…The most powerful take on love, loss and vulnerability I’ve read in years.”–A Cup of Jo

    From internationally bests

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    • Author: Winman, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 09 2019
    • ISBN10: 0735218765
    • Language: English
  • Great Expectations

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    Perhaps Dickens’s best-loved work, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a young man with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefactor allows him to escape the Kent marshes for a m

  • Others Were Emeralds

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    Others Were Emeralds kept me on the edge of my seat from beginning to end. With lyrical and moving prose, Lang tells a stunning tale of love, loss, and the true power of friendship. A deep, beautiful

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    • Author: Leav, Lang
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: 5-Sep-23
    • ISBN10: 0063304023
    • Language: English
  • Great Expectations

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    Now an original series on FX and Hulu starring Olivia Coleman

    Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable an

    • Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
    • Author: Dickens, Charles
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: October 01, 2009
    • ISBN10: 014104036X
    • Language: English
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