Fiction » Literature » Coming of age

My Indian Queen: A Novella    by J.M. Moris
Price: $2.99 USD. 33170 words. Language: English. Published on April 24, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

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The summer Ryan turns 18 and prepares to leave for college, his world is turned upside down by the arrival of a new neighbor...an exotic firecracker of a girl, all the way from India. Over the course of their summer together, Ryan finds himself hopelessly drawn into her colorful world...a world more exciting and vivid than he ever dared dream.
Know Not Why: A Novel    by Hannah Johnson
Price: $9.99 USD. 112650 words. Language: English. Published on April 23, 2012. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Gay & Lesbian.

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Howie gets a job at a hokey arts ‘n crafts store to meet girls. Instead, he meets Arthur. Sure, Arthur is smart and charming and has distractingly magnificent eyelashes, but there’s no getting away from one troublesome fact: he’s a dude. And Howie, who’s spent the past twenty-two years being strictly unexceptional, isn’t about to shake up his whole (mediocre) existence now. ... Right?
Learning Curve    by Diana Hunter
Price: $1.99 USD. 13550 words. Language: English. Published on April 23, 2012. Fiction » Romance » Erotic.

A college grad student, studious and serious, hides a secret: her deepest fantasies revolve around the forbidden fruit of bondage and the dark world of BDSM. When a fellow classmate offers her an introduction to that world, she enters a whole new school of learning.
A Child Out Of Alcatraz    by Tara Ison
Price: $2.99 USD. 77930 words. Language: English. Published by Foreverland Press  on April 21, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

“Searingly original, brutal, unique. Tara Ison is unquestionably an important new voice in American fiction.” —Carolyn See, author of The Handyman “A fascinating and wonderfully evocative first novel about life on Alcatraz – seen through the eyes of a little girl growing up on the Rock in the 1950s. A compelling story, richly evoking a time and place.” —Kirkus Reviews
Summer Rain    by Jon Konrath
Price: $2.99 USD. 221000 words. Language: English. Published on April 20, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

John Conner has lost his girlfriend, his job, a scholarship, and has been kicked out of college. Instead of retreating back to his parents’ basement and a life of mediocrity and factory labor, he decides to stay the summer in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana.
Some Lessons In Gaelic    by McCawley Grange
Price: $7.99 USD. 119030 words. Language: English. Published by Amolibros  on April 18, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

When an eleven-year-old English boy arrives in Southern Ireland, walking on his hands and quoting Shakespeare, the natives begin to treat him with suspicion. The town he finds himself in is a small mid-century (1950) maelstrom of snobbery, nationalism, sexual repression and quaint quintessential Irish intolerance, presided over by a clergy, discharging duties of guidance and tutelage.
Dinky's Demise    by Kelli Jae Baeli
Price: $0.99 USD. 1630 words. Language: English. Published on April 14, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

She was fearless and he wanted to be fearless.
Sidereal Days The History of Rock and Roll A Romance Book 2    by Earl B. McElfresh
Price: $1.99 USD. 43240 words. Language: English. Published on April 13, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

1960. Olean, NY. Orlando P. Jones finds a guitar, forms a band and finds his soul. His band, the Sparrows, plays everywhere, on the streets, in dodgy bars, on the stage of the Ed Sullivan Show. The four part series Sidereal Days follows their bumpy career as they meet and mingle with music legends. Hidden amid the fiction are rock & roll facts—find them. In Book 2 fame hovers, a legend looms
At the Ditch in the Center of the Universe    by Geraldine Glodek
Price: Free! 7270 words. Language: English. Published on April 9, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Tim Giovannini, whose family made it out of the mines and factories of Pennsylvania, wants nothing to do with kids whose families are still "below the line." It's 1959. Tim has a chance to go to the Buddy Holly concert in Iowa with Hal Jones, the laces of whose sneakers Tim does not feel fit to loose. Hal can't stomach Tim, but a ride to Iowa in Tim's dad's car is his only way to get there.
Die Tiefschläger    by Peter Fladl Martinez
Price: $4.99 USD. 34210 words. Language: German. Published on April 9, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

Kriminalkomödie über einen Frühpensionisten, den Mann der seinen Job bekommen hat, die Sekretärin und so manche andere...