Narrative theme: coming of age
Random House USA Inc The Violin Conspiracy
Book SynopsisGOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.“I loved The Violin Conspiracy for exactly the same reasons I loved The Queen’s Gambit: a surprising, beautifully rendered underdog hero I cared about deeply and a fascinating, cutthroat world I knew nothing about—in this case, classical music.” —Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the WitchGrowing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a w
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Random House USA Inc Black Cake A Read with Jenna Pick
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Penguin Putnam Inc Punk 57
Book SynopsisSecrets, deception, and passion consume two pen pals in the TikTok sensation from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas, now with exclusive bonus material!They were perfect together. Until they met. In fifth grade, Misha’s teacher set him and his classmates up with pen pals from a different school. For the next seven years, Ryen was his everything. She kept Misha on track and accepted him as he is. They only had three rules: No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. There was no reason to ruin the good thing they had going…until Misha runs across a photo of a girl online named Ryen. He knows he has to meet her. But he didn’t expect to hate what he finds. Ryen has gone three months without a letter from Misha. Did he die? Get arrested? Knowing Misha like she does, neither would be a stretch. She needs to know someone is listening to her. But really, Ryen knows this is her own fault. She s
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Amie McNee Regrettably I am About to Cause Trouble
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Monica James Beyond The Roses
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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Love in the Big City
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W. W. Norton & Company Box Hill A Story of Low SelfEsteem
Book SynopsisThe winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize A sizzling and deeply touching love story between two men, set in the gay biker community of 1970s LondonTrade Review"Mars-Jones’ trim, poignant novel humanizes the intricacies of a dominant-submissive gay relationship.... As the narrator says, “What I saw of his life was about excitement, about magic,” a spell that will fall on readers, too." -- Kirkus (starred)"Mars-Jones’s prose is exceptionally nimble, dry, humorously restrained, very English, with a little Nabokovian velvet too. He can describe more or less anything and make it interesting." -- James Wood - London Review of Books"Mars-Jones is a writer of wonderful originality and wit." -- The Times (London)"Dry, accurate, tragic." -- Edmund White"I very much enjoyed Box Hill. It is a characteristic Mars-Jones mixture of the shocking, the endearing, the funny, and the sad, with an unforgettable narrator. The sociological detail is as ever acutely enduring." -- Margaret Drabble
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Little, Brown Book Group Pilgrimage Two
Book Synopsis* Now available as a Print on Demand titleTrade ReviewThere is no one word, such as romance or realism, to cover, even roughly, the works of Miss Dorothy Richardson. The chief characteristic is one we for which we still seek a name. She has invented a sentence we might call the pyshcological sentece of the feminine gender... proving that the novel is not hung on a nail festooned with glory, but, on the contrary, walks the high road, alive and alert, and brushes shoulders with real men and women * Virgina Woolf *One of the real achievements of our time... Miss Richardson has achieved a miracle of performance * Rebecca West *She has a unique position among the novelists of the world * H.G. Wells *A great fictional masterpiece * Anthony Burgess *
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Little, Brown Book Group Pilgrimage Four Virago Modern Classics
Book Synopsis''Pilgrimage'' was the first expression in English of what it is to be called ''stream of conciousness'' technique, predating the work of both Joyce and Woolf, echoing that of Proust with whom Dorothy Richardson stands as one of the great innovatory figures of our time. These four volumes record in detail the life of Miriram Henderson. Through her experience - personal, spiritual, intellectual - Dorothy Richardson explores intensely what it means to be a woman, presenting feminine conciousness with a new voice, a new identity.Trade ReviewThere is no one word, such as romance or realism, to cover, even roughly, the works of Miss Dorothy Richardson. The chief characteristic is one we for which we still seek a name. She has invented a sentence we might call the pyshcological sentece of the feminine gender... proving that the novel is not hung on a nail festooned with glory, but, on the contrary, walks the high road, alive and alert, and brushes shoulders with real men and women * Virgina Woolf *One of the real achievements of our time... Miss Richardson has achieved a miracle of performance * Rebecca West *
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Laura Morelli The Gondola Maker
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Mitchell Tobias Publishing LLC Rival Briarcliff Secret Society Series
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Lovely Well Brutal Heir
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Lovely Well Kingpin
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Oppenlander Enterprises LLC Surviving the Fatherland A True Coming of Age Love Story Set in WWII Germany
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Poor Christ of Bomba
Book SynopsisAward-winning author Mongo Beti presents The Poor Christ of Bomba, a cutting satirical critique on the role of Catholic missionaries and French colonialism in 1930s Cameroon. A revolutionary novel in its time.In the small village of Bomba, a French missionary priest is instructed to build a parish for its residents. Father Drumont has one important task; to save the village from heresy by preparing its girls for Christian marriage.A servant in Father Drumont''s house, a young boy named Denis is reliant on the priest''s generosity after the death of his mother. In the eyes of the Catholic church, Denis is the perfect example of the African heathen saved by Christianity but the reality of what happens behind closed doors in much more sinister.''One of the foremost African writers of the independence generation.'' GuardianTrade ReviewOne of the foremost African writers of the independence generation. * Guardian *
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Micalea a Smeltzer LLC Sweet Dandelion
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Random House USA Inc Lucky Per
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Picador The Virgin Suicides
Book SynopsisThese pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers! - MetroBought together or separately, these fiction titles are ideal stocking stuffers for the literature lover. - USA TodayThe national bestseller from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life. First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mys
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Holt McDougal Trust Exercise
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BESTSELLERElectrifying (People) Masterly (The Guardian) Dramatic and memorable (The New Yorker) Magic (TIME) Ingenious (The Financial Times) A gonzo literary performance (Entertainment Weekly) Rare and splendid (The Boston Globe) Remarkable (USA Today) Delicious (The New York Times) Book groups, meet your next selection (NPR)In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving Brotherhood of the Arts, two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticedor untoyed withby anyone, especially not by their
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Picador USA Ghost Wall
Book SynopsisA Southern Living Best New Book of Winter 2019; A Refinery29 Best Book of January 2019; A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at The Week, Huffington Post, Nylon, and Lit Hub; An Indie Next Pick for January 2019Ghost Wall has subtlety, wit, and the force of a rock to the head: an instant classic. Emma Donoghue, author of RoomA worthy match for 3 a.m. disquiet, a book that evoked existential dread, but contained it, beautifully, like a shipwreck in a bottle. Margaret Talbot, The New YorkerA taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behaviorThe light blinds you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside.In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and kn
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Tor Publishing Group The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Crawford Award!Winner of the 2021 Hugo Award!A Hugo Award-Winning Series!A 2021 Locus Award FinalistA 2021 Ignyte Award FinalistA Goodreads Choice Award FinalistA Book Riot Best Debut Fantasy of All TimeDangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful... The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling.NPRNghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today.Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren QueenA Book Riot Must Read Book of 2023 A 2020 ALA Booklist Top Ten SF/F Debut A Book Riot Must-Read Fantasy of 2020 A Paste Most Anticipated Novel of 2020 A Library Journal Debut of the Month A Buzzfeed Must-Read Fantasy Novel of Spring 2020 A Washington Post Best SFF of the Year So Far PickNamed Book Riot''s Best Book Cov
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Picador USA The Topeka School
Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARA TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEARONE OF BARACK OBAMA''S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio PrizeWinner of the Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award ALSO NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Esquire, NPR, Vogue, Amazon, Kirkus, The Times (UK), Buzzfeed, Vanity Fair, The Telegraph (UK), Financial Times (UK), Lit Hub, The Times Literary Supplement (UK), The New York Post, Daily Mail (UK), The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian (UK), Electric Literature, SPY.com, and the New York Public Library
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Holt McDougal Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
Book SynopsisNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR and The Chicago TribuneHeartbreaking and funny, often in the same sentencea deeply felt, finely wrought, and highly satisfying novel. Alison Espach has created a family whose every sorrow, joy, and idiosyncrasy is utterly, vibrantly real.New York Times bestselling author Claire LombardoFor much of her life, Sally Holt has been mystified by the things her older sister, Kathy, seems to have been born knowing. Kathy has answers for all of Sally's questions about life, about love, and about Billy Barnes, a rising senior and local basketball star who mans the concession stand at the town pool. The girls have been fascinated by Billy ever since he jumped off the roof in elementary school, but Billy has never shown much interest in them until the summer before Sally begins eighth grade. By then, their mutual infatuation with Billy is one of the few things the increasingly different sisters have in common. Sall
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Waking Lion Press Bambi A Life in the Woods
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Loom of Youth Bloomsbury Reader
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform A Picture in Time
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Clipped by Love
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