Bildungsromans

  • Old Man and the Sea

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    Told in language of great simplicity and power, this story of courage and personal triumph remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works.

    The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway’s most end

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    • Author: Hemingway, Ernest
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: May 05 1995
    • ISBN10: 0684801221
    • Language: English
  • This Is Happiness

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    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST and REAL SIMPLE

    A profound and enchanting bestselling novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the

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    • Author: Williams, Niall
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: August 31 2021
    • ISBN10: 1635576318
    • Language: English
  • Come and Get It

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
    National Bestseller
    USA Today Bestseller

    A Good Morning America Book Club Pick

    An Indie Next Pick
    A LibraryReads Pick

    From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of S

    • Author: Reid, Kiley
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: January 30, 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593328205
    • Language: English
  • What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

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    A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

    A WASHINGTON POST BEST FEEL GOOD BOOK OF 2023

    For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book reco

    • Author: Aoyama, Michiko
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 05, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1335005625
    • Language: English
  • The Catcher in the Rye

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    The “brilliant, funny, meaningful novel” (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature–and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a li[more below]

    • Author: Salinger, J. D.
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: May 01 1991
    • ISBN10: 0316769487
    • Language: English
  • Go as a River

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    * Finalist for Goodreads Choice Award * Colorado Public Radio 2023 Books We Love *

    Set amid Colorado’s wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman wh

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    • Author: Read, Shelley
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 1954118236
    • Language: English
  • Sky Ropes

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    For fans of The War That Saved My Life and Wolf Hollow, this fast-paced and unforgettable story follows one girl’s journey to overcome her trauma, discover what friendship really means, and learn that[more below]

    • Author: Soderborg, Sondra
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: July 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1797215647
    • Language: English
  • Look Homeward, Angel

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    The spectacular, history-making first novel about a young man’s coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature.A l… [more below]

    • Author: Wolfe, Thomas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: October 10, 2006
    • ISBN10: 0743297318
    • Language: English
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

    The beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.

    From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be

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    • Author: Smith, Betty
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: November 13, 2001
    • ISBN10: 0060001941
    • Language: English
  • El Verano En Que Me Enamoré (Tv-Tie In) / The Summer I Turned Pretty (Tv-Tie In) (Trilogía Verano 1)

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    Este ser? el verano en que Belly se volver? guapa, el verano en que se enamorar?… aunque tambi?n ser? el verano en el que todo cambiar?. Para bien, y para mal.

    La trilog?a en la que se basa la serie

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    • Series: Trilog?a Verano #1
    • Author: Han, Jenny
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: October 25 2022
    • ISBN10: 6070792289
    • Language: Spanish
  • My Name Is Asher Lev

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this modern classic from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Chosen, a young religious artist is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even w[more below]

    • Author: Potok, Chaim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: March 11, 2003
    • ISBN10: 1400031044
    • Language: English
  • Jonny Appleseed

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    WINNER, Lambda Literary Award

    “You’re gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine” is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly comp

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    • Author: Whitehead, Joshua
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: May 15, 2018
    • ISBN10: 1551527251
    • Language: English
  • A Short Walk Through a Wide World

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    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse[more below]

    • Author: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: April 02, 2024
    • ISBN10: 1668026066
    • Language: English
  • Long Division

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    Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Fiction

    From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black tee

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    • Author: Laymon, Kiese
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: June 01, 2021
    • ISBN10: 198217482X
    • Language: English
  • Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

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    Prep meets The Secret History in Nash Jenkins’s Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos, a searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation t

    • Author: Jenkins, Nash
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: May 16, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1419764764
    • Language: English
  • Mèo and Bé

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    Just before the United States enters the Vietnam War, eleven-year-old Bé and her three-footed kitten Mèo must rise above the injustices of war to find the comfort, safety, and love of a found family

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    • Author: Nguyen, Doan Phuong
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 23 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643796259
    • Language: English
  • Pizza Girl

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    LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST – An audacious and wryly funny coming-of-age story about a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers.

    Eighteen years old, pregnant, and

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    • Author: Frazier, Jean Kyoung
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: May 04 2021
    • ISBN10: 1984899007
    • Language: English
  • Rubi Ramos’s Recipe for Success

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    Most Anticipated YA by Goodreads!

    “An earnest, charming coming-of-age story that will come for your heart and your appetite.” New York Times bestselling author Emma Lord

    Graduation is only a few

    • Author: Parra, Jessica
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 16, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1250862523
    • Language: English
  • David Copperfield

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    Dickens’ great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful new clothbound edition

    This is the novel Dickens regarded as his “favourite child” and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts

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    • Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
    • Author: Dickens, Charles
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 1024
    • Publish Date: May 17 2016
    • ISBN10: 0241240360
    • Language: English
  • Little Bee

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    Millions of people have read, discussed, debated, cried, and cheered with Little Bee. Have you?

    Little Bee will blow you away.” —The Washington Post

    The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan a

    • Author: Cleave, Chris
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: February 16, 2010
    • ISBN10: 1416589643
    • Language: English
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