Topical/Coming of Age

  • The System of Dante’s Hell

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    “Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age . . . the special agony of the American Negro.” —New York Times Book Review

    “A fevered and impressionistic rif

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    • Series: Akashiclassics: Renegade Reprint
    • Author: Baraka, Amiri
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: February 16 2016
    • ISBN10: 1617753963
    • Language: English
  • Opioid, Indiana

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    “Full of gorgeous language and wild insights.”–Nick Flynn

    Set in the beleaguered heart of Indiana’s opioid crisis, Brian Allen Carr’s timely and tender novel about a teen struggling to find his place

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    • Author: Carr, Brian Allen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 17 2019
    • ISBN10: 1641290781
    • Language: English
  • Faint Promise of Rain

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    Shortlisted for the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing It is 1554 in the desert of Rajasthan, and a new Mughal emperor is expanding his territory. On a rare night of rain, a daughter… [more below]

    • Author: Duva, Anjali Mitter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 289
    • Publish Date: October 07 2014
    • ISBN10: 1938314972
    • Language: English
  • Sunnyside Plaza

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    Wonder meets Three Times Lucky in a story of empowerment as a young woman decides to help solve the mystery of multiple suspicious deaths in her group home.
    Sally Miyake can’t read, but she learns lot… [more below]

    • Author: Simon, Scott
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: January 19 2021
    • ISBN10: 0316531219
    • Language: English
  • How Lucky: A Mystery Novel

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    2022 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel

    “A fantastic novel. . . . You are going to like this a lot.”–Stephen King

    “What’s more thrilling than a fictional character speaking to us in a voice we haven’t

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    • Author: Leitch, Will
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 11 2021
    • ISBN10: 0063073099
    • Language: English
  • The Great Passion

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    From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach’s writing of the St. Matthew Passion.

    In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thi

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    • Author: Runcie, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1635570670
    • Language: English
  • Jade Is a Twisted Green

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    For readers of Queenie and Honey Girl, a coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life’s pleasures after loss.

    Jade Brown, a twenty-four-year-old … [more below]

    • Author: Turton, Tanya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: October 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 1459748603
    • Language: English
  • Trinity

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    From the internationally acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, and other classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure.

    Leon Uris captu

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    • Author: Uris, Leon
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: October 25 2022
    • ISBN10: 9798200951741
    • Language: English
  • Taking Chances

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    Her first year away is turning out to be near perfect, but one weekend of giving in to heated passion will change everything.

    Eighteen year old Harper has grown up under her career-Marine father’s thu

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    • Series: Taking Chances #1
    • Author: McAdams, Molly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: February 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 006226768X
    • Language: English
  • The Journey Back

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    A teenage boy faces his past and seeks redemption in the gripping companion book to Red Kayak

    Nine months in a juvenile detention facility was the punishment for his crime. After just a month he makes

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    • Author: Cummings, Priscilla
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: October 03 2013
    • ISBN10: 0142422908
    • Language: English
  • The Autograph Man

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Swing Time and one of the most revered writers of her generation comes an “intelligent … exquisitely clever [novel] about fame, mortality, and the trium[more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Smith, Zadie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: June 17 2003
    • ISBN10: 037570387X
    • Language: English
  • Taming the Star Runner

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    From the best-selling author of The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton’s Taming the Star Runner explores loneliness and the need to belong, and the inevitability of change–universal struggles associated with com

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    • Author: Hinton, S. E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: August 06 2013
    • ISBN10: 0385376669
    • Language: English
  • The Spirit of Science Fiction

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    From a master of contemporary fiction, a tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City

    Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, w

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    • Author: Bolaño, Roberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: February 04 2020
    • ISBN10: 0735222878
    • Language: English
  • Life Strategies for Teens

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    From the son of Dr. Phil McGraw comes Life Strategies for Teens, the New York Times bestselling guide to teenage success, and the first guide to teenage life that won’t tell you what to do, or who to[more below]

    • Series: Life Strategies Series
    • Author: McGraw, Jay
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 04 2000
    • ISBN10: 074321546X
    • Language: English
  • All These Warriors

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    In this highly anticipated conclusion to New York Times best-selling author Amy Tintera’s All These Monsters duology, Clara and Team Seven’s quest to expose the truth behind the scrab menace has them [more below]

    • Series: All These Monsters
    • Author: Tintera, Amy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: May 23 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063290774
    • Language: English
  • Anne of the Island

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    Anne Shirley is off to college in this artfully packaged edition of the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series.

    Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she’s sad to be leaving Marilla and

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    • Series: Anne of Green Gables Novel
    • Author: Montgomery, L. M.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: May 20 2014
    • ISBN10: 1442490047
    • Language: English
  • The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes

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    Spain has produced two books that changed world literature: Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes, the first picaresque novel ever written and the inspired precursor to works as various as Vanity Fair a… [more below]

    • Series: Nyrb Classics
    • Author: Merwin, W. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: December 31 2004
    • ISBN10: 1590171322
    • Language: English
  • Planet Middle School

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    New York Times bestselling author of One Last Word and Coretta Scott King award-winning Bronx Masquerade Nikki Grimes offers fresh novel in verse story about young heartbreak and hope.

    For twelve year

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    • Author: Grimes, Nikki
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: September 13 2011
    • ISBN10: 1599902842
    • Language: English
  • Godpretty in the Tobacco Field

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    “Beauty and sweetness weave a diaphanous fabric against the stark backdrop of poverty and cruelty.”–Sara Gruen, bestselling author of Water for Elephants

    Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble

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    • Author: Richardson, Kim Michele
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 26 2016
    • ISBN10: 1617737356
    • Language: English
  • Sixteen Scandals

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    In this irreverent regency romp by New York Times best-selling author Sophie Jordan, newly minted sixteen-year-old Primrose Ainsworth finds herself on a wayward birthday adventure through London with [more below]

    • Author: Jordan, Sophie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: May 25 2021
    • ISBN10: 0358206219
    • Language: English
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