Topical/Coming of Age

  • Persuasion

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    Jane Austen’s last completed novel, a brilliantly insightful story of regret, second chances, and the courage to follow our hearts

    Anne Elliot is twenty-seven and unmarried–by all accounts a spinster

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    • Author: Austen, Jane
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 229
    • Publish Date: April 01 1984
    • ISBN10: 0553211374
    • Language: English
  • The House on Mango Street

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    A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago – Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in sc

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    • Author: Cisneros, Sandra
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: April 26 1994
    • ISBN10: 067943335X
    • Language: English
  • The Commitments

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    In the first volume of the Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle, winner of the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, introduces The Commitments, a group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths with a … [more below]

    • Series: Vintage Contemporaries
    • Author: Doyle, Roddy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 165
    • Publish Date: July 17 1989
    • ISBN10: 0679721746
    • Language: English
  • Wildflower

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    Lily Andrews is only eleven years old when she boards a small aircraft with her mother, destined for the beautiful gulf coast of Texas. Tragedy strikes mid-flight when the plane goes down deep in the

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    • Author: Collins, Cathleen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: August 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1636796214
    • Language: English
  • The Tap Dancer

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    ‘My favourite novel and one I wish I’d written.’ ALAN BENNETT

    Winner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature.

    Ev

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    • Author: Barrow, Andrew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 12 2023
    • ISBN10: 0008619174
    • Language: English
  • The Most Precious Substance on Earth

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    Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat’s “powerful, surprising and terrifying” (Rufi Thorpe) story about a high school student’s traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of 13 W[more below]

    • Author: Bhat, Shashi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: June 27 2023
    • ISBN10: 1538707926
    • Language: English
  • The Ice Ghost

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    Now in paperback, this second book in a cli-fi series from a nationally-recognized anthropologist explores a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an apocalyptic Ice Age

    In the bruta

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    • Series: The Rewilding Report
    • Author: Gear, Kathleen O’Neal
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 0756418658
    • Language: English
  • The Promise of a Normal Life

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    For readers of Marilynne Robinson, Elizabeth Strout, and Katie Kitamura, the indelible journey of a quiet young woman–the “silent person” in the Seder–finding her way.

    Hailed as “radiant and trans

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    • Author: Gibson, Rebecca Kaiser
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: February 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1956763333
    • Language: English
  • My Life as Edgar

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    A sensitive portrait of one boy’s travels from earliest consciousness through his salad days in the countryside and onward by a “genius” of “nuanced interior moments” (Los Angeles Times)

    Fabre’s abili

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    • Author: Fabre, Dominique
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 198
    • Publish Date: May 16 2023
    • ISBN10: 1953861482
    • Language: English
  • Mercury

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    August 31, 5:15 PM, French Hill, Nova Scotia: A girl named Tara is running. She runs through her nice neighborhood and up a road to the burned ruins of what was once a beautiful house–her family’s ho… [more below]

    • Author: Larson, Hope
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 06 2010
    • ISBN10: 1416935886
    • Language: English
  • Peter Pan

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    Take flight to Neverland with this sumptuously illustrated, finely crafted keepsake edition of Peter Pan’s, Wendy’s, and of course, Tinkerbell’s adventure that inspired the beloved Disney film and cou[more below]

    • Series: Scribner Classics
    • Author: Barrie, James Matthew
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 21 2014
    • ISBN10: 1481426052
    • Language: English
  • Surrender

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    SURRENDER is a mesmerizing psychological thriller from extraordinary novelist Sonya Hartnett.

    I am dying: it’s a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the o

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    • Author: Hartnett, Sonya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: August 13 2019
    • ISBN10: 153620644X
    • Language: English
  • Sketchtasy

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    Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart–it’s an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the… [more below]

    • Author: Bernstein Sycamore, Mattilda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 16 2018
    • ISBN10: 1551527294
    • Language: English
  • Every Teen Girl’s Little Pink Book

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    From the bestselling creators of the little black book series, with over 200,000 sold, comes a unique and fun new gift collection for teen girls, every teen girl’s little pink book special gift editio… [more below]

    • Author: Bartel, Cathy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 242
    • Publish Date: March 01 2007
    • ISBN10: 1577949099
    • Language: English
  • Stig & Tilde: Vanisher’s Island: Stig & Tilde 1

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    Stig and Tilde are just following along with tradition when they find themselves on an unexpected adventure.

    Keeping with a local tradition, Stig and Tilde hop on a dinghy and head to a desert island

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    • Series: Stig and Tilde #1
    • Author: de Radiguès, Max
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: September 10 2019
    • ISBN10: 1910620645
    • Language: English
  • Nisemonogatari, Part 1: Fake Tale

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    Unlike ne’er-do-well former vampire Araragi, his two younger sisters Karen and Tsukihi, who attend a private junior high, are little balls of energy and charisma that their peers look up to. That the … [more below]

    • Series: Monogatari #1
    • Author: Nisioisin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 306
    • Publish Date: June 27 2017
    • ISBN10: 1942993986
    • Language: English
  • The Great Gatsby

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    The classic novel that continues to haunt our understanding of ambition, love, entitlement, and the American Dream–with an exclusive discussion guide and an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning cri[more below]

    • Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: January 05 2021
    • ISBN10: 0593133552
    • Language: English
  • A Million Things

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    “An original and impressively assured debut. A gem of a novel.”
    –Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project

    A soaring, heartfelt debut following fifty-five days in the life

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    • Author: Spurr, Emily
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: August 24 2021
    • ISBN10: 0593332733
    • Language: English
  • Under the Magnolias

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    2022 Christy Award finalist!

    This night not only marked the end to the drought, but also the end to the long-held secret we’d kept hidden under the magnolias.

    Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980
    Austin Foster… [more below]

    • Author: Lowe, T. I.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: May 04 2021
    • ISBN10: 1496453603
    • Language: English
  • The Lightness

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    “A teen thriller in the vein of the ’90s horror movie The Craft . . . A beautiful meditation on meditation . . . Frequently hilarious, and thoughtful throughout.” The New York Times Book Review

    “The

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    • Author: Temple, Emily
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: June 22 2021
    • ISBN10: 0062905333
    • Language: English
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