Fiction » Literature » Coming of age

Unbreak Me    by Lexi Ryan
Price: $3.99 USD. 65400 words. Language: English. Published on May 24, 2013. Fiction » Romance » Contemporary.

Twenty-one year old college dropout Maggie Thompson returns home to be a bridesmaid her ex-fiancé’s wedding to her sister. Maggie hopes to salvage her long-tarnished reputation and strained relationship with her family, but finds herself caught in a web of secrets and deception between the man who once promised to fix her and the sexy ex-rocker who gives her permission to break.
Omission    by Philip Berry
Price: $2.99 USD. 72470 words. Language: English. Published on May 23, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

Oliver Preston sees the truth in people. Through glances, words and actions he understands their true intentions - an unexceptional human quality perhaps, but one that he cannot join with action. He knows his lover is unfaithful, but does nothing. Now, reeling from her rejection, he looks back on the time when such knowledge could have saved the life of a sixteen year old schoolfriend.
Give Me Wings    by Joy Redmond
Price: $2.99 USD. 79840 words. Language: English. Published by Solstice Publishing  on May 22, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

Carnikko was abandoned by her father and then forced into foster care after the loss of her mother at an early age. Even after she’s finally adopted, the world around her is still uncertain—and her days are filled with an insistent sense of loneliness.
Gift of the Raven    by Catriona Troth
Price: $2.99 USD. 25270 words. Language: Canadian English. Published on May 20, 2013. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Social Issues.

The people of the Haida Gwaii tell the legend of the raven, a trickster who brings the gift of light to the world. Terry used to believe his father would come back and rescue him. He's 13 now and doesn't believe in anything much. Yet his father is alive and Terry is about to come face to face with the truth about his own past and the real nature of the gift of the Raven.
Ruffled Feathers    by Jason Blacker
Price: $2.99 USD. 28750 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Ruffled Feathers is a short novel exploring two days in the life of Mallard the unlikely hero. In Broken Beak Woods, it is illegal to fly above your ability. In fact, it is a crime punishable by clipping, the grisly punishment of losing the ability to fly. Not only was Mallard flying higher than he should, but he was also flying faster than he was allowed.
Life Begins    by Jack Gunthridge
Price: $5.99 USD. 63840 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

In this semi-sequel/semi-revision of "Life", Jack and Christine explore their past together and look at the impact of Jack's recent diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome, a high functioning form of autism, has had on their relationship. With the time, distance, and knowledge of autism, they look back to understand who they were and how Jack's autism caused issues in the relationship.
Obscurities    by Mick Bordet
Price: Free! 22950 words. Language: English. Published by Katharina Bordet on May 18, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

When Del discovers a box full of strange musical instruments in the attic, it reveals more about her family history and holds some secrets to her own past. What happens when you challenge your husband.... Mick Bordet produced an album, a full-colour booklet and a novella in eBook and audiobook format... Find it all at: http://www.mickbordet.com/2013/05/obscurities/
The Approach    by Benson Wainaina Kamau
Price: $3.99 USD. 54020 words. Language: English. Published on May 16, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

It is a struggle for existence for most characters in this plausible story set in Africa. But with unusual resilience and love for a better life,akin to the realities of the 21st Century Africa, things turn out differently. "The Approach" is what makes the difference.
Final Education - A Novel of Empires Both Vapid and Grand    by Dean Marden
Price: $2.99 USD. 174060 words. Language: Commonwealth English. Published on May 15, 2013. Fiction » Adventure » War & military.

Chosen to partake in an unknown government initiative, Cawdor High's graduating students are quick to find their old rivalries playing out on a scale grander than any one of them could have imagined. Given control of fourteen ancient civilisations within an immense virtual world, the group must engage their foes and protect their allies through leveraging all the powers of human history.
Neena Gathering (A Post-Apocalyptic Novel)    by Valerie Nieman
Price: $5.99 USD. 63890 words. Language: English. Published by Permuted Press on May 13, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic.

The cities were all gone, the people were gone, too. And the children. All dead. A nation divided, turns on itself with brutal, primitive cruelty, unleashing the ghastly mutations of blistering chemical warfare that leave a desolate wasteland where the United States once flourished...