Bildungsromans

  • Edmund White’s a Boy’s Own Story: The Graphic Novel

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    A landmark American novel, hailed by the New York Times as J.D. Salinger crossed with Oscar Wilde, is masterfully reimagined as a timeless graphic novel.

    A Boy’s Own Story is a now-classic coming-of-a

    • Author: White, Edmund
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: January 03, 2023
    • ISBN10: 160309508X
    • Language: English
  • Godpretty in the Tobacco Field

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    From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, an atmospheric, tender tale of love and loss set in 1969 rural Kentucky. There, a young girl named Ruby[more below]

    • Author: Richardson, Kim Michele
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: March 30 2021
    • ISBN10: 1496734211
    • Language: English
  • Daughter of a Promise

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    Days after graduation, Betsabé Ruiz’s life in New York is turning out to be nothing less than cinematic. Although her first job at a white-shoe, Wall Street investment bank is the opportunity of… [more below]

    • Author: Blasberg, Jeanne McWilliams
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 344
    • Publish Date: April 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 1647426081
    • Language: English
  • From the Longing Orchard

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    In richly lyrical prose, this coming-of-age novel tells the story of aspiring artist Sonya Hudson, who yearns to break free from psychological distress and celebrate her place in the world.

    • Author: Jopp, Jessica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: June 13 2023
    • ISBN10: 1597099295
    • Language: English
  • Drowning in Fire: Volume 48

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    Josh Henneha has always been a traveler, drowning in dreams, burning with desires.

    As a young boy growing up within the Muskogee Creek Nation in rural Oklahoma, Josh experiences a yearning for someth

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    • Series: Sun Tracks #48
    • Author: Womack, Craig S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 01 2001
    • ISBN10: 0816521689
    • Language: English
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Introduction by Richard Brown

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    In his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man’s self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form, th

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  • Captains Courageous

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    A Penguin Classic

    First published in 1897, Captain Courageous tells of the high-seas adventures of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire, who, after falling from a luxury ocean liner, is r

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Kipling, Rudyard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: June 07 2005
    • ISBN10: 0142437719
    • Language: English
  • The Tobacco Wives

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    Most anticipated by USA Today, W Magazine, New York Post, Parade, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Reader’s Digest, and PopSugar and named one of the best historical fiction books of the year by Cosmopolitan!

    “A bea

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    • Author: Myers, Adele
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: March 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 63211351
    • Language: English
  • Panic: The Thrilling New Book from the Author of Killing Eve

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    *The thrilling new novel from the author of the bestselling Killing Eve series*

    Escaping online is easy. In real life it won’t be so simple.

    Jaleesa, Kai, Ilya and Dani are online best friends, and s

    • Author: Jennings, Luke
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: March 12, 2024
    • ISBN10: 1529351863
    • Language: English
  • Jumper

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    Steven Gould’s sci-fi classic, Jumper–now a major motion picture film starring film Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, and Rachel Bilson.

    Davy can teleport. He first discovers his talent during a

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    • Series: Jumper #1
    • Author: Gould, Steven
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: August 19 2014
    • ISBN10: 0765378167
    • Language: English
  • The Smell of Apples

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    Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times
    Winner of the M-Net Award
    Winner of The Eugene Marais Award
    Winner of the CNA Literary Award
    Winner of the Betty Trask Award

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    • Author: Behr, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: March 15 1997
    • ISBN10: 0312152094
    • Language: English
  • The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

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    A Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards

    At Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, campers are promised adventures in the woods, songs by the fire, and lifelong friends. Burst

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    • Author: Fu, Kim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: February 12 2019
    • ISBN10: 1328467694
    • Language: English
  • The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

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    Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest fri… [more below]

    • Author: Fuhrman, Chris
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: September 28 2001
    • ISBN10: 0820323381
    • Language: English
  • My Absolute Darling

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    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
    LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
    NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST
    ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017
    ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2
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    • Author: Tallent, Gabriel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: June 26 2018
    • ISBN10: 735211183
    • Language: English
  • The Universe Versus Alex Woods

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    A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an extraordinary future. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, Alex hasn… [more below]

    • Author: Extence, Gavin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: January 14 2014
    • ISBN10: 031624659X
    • Language: English
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

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    A rousing and uproarious novel of the life, loves, and misadventures of a working-class rogue, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning marked the arrival of one of the most cherished authors in the twenty-first… [more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Sillitoe, Alan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: March 02 2010
    • ISBN10: 0307389650
    • Language: English
  • Shipwrecks

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    Isaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village on the coast of Japan. His people catch barely enough fish to live on, and so must distill salt to sell to neighboring… [more below]

    • Series: Harvest Book
    • Author: Yoshimura, Akira
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: February 15 2000
    • ISBN10: 0156008351
    • Language: English
  • Honey Mine: Collected Stories

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    Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer’s coming of age through disorienting, unsparing, and exhilarating encounters with sex, gend

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    • Author: Roy, Camille
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: June 29 2021
    • ISBN10: 1643620746
    • Language: English
  • The Excellent Lombards

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    A new classic from the author of Oprah’s Book Club picks A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth.

    “This is the book Jane Hamilton was born to write… [it is] magnificent.” Ann Patchett, New York T

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    • Author: Hamilton, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 04 2017
    • ISBN10: 1455564206
    • Language: English
  • Hill William

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    You can tell McClanahan feels something when he writes and when he lives. He wants you to feel something too.–The Huffington Post

    I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a

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    • Author: McClanahan, Scott
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 222
    • Publish Date: November 05 2013
    • ISBN10: 0985023554
    • Language: English
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