Fiction » Literature » Coming of age

Sidereal Days The History of Rock and Roll A Romance Book 1    by Earl B. McElfresh
Price: $1.99 USD. 47000 words. Language: English. Published on March 20, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

It’s 1960. Olean, New York. 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. Book 1 sets a band in motion.
I'm Not This Girl    by Nina-Marie Gardner
Price: $2.99 USD. 82200 words. Language: English. Published on March 19, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

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The prequel to Nina-Marie Gardner's critically acclaimed debut, "Sherry & Narcotics." A cautionary tale of love and loss—beautiful, raw and heart-wrenchingly honest.
Adult World    by Christopher Scott Grimaldi
Price: $2.99 USD. 64480 words. Language: English. Published on March 18, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

On his eighteenth birthday, Brian Hartman takes a job at Adult World, a pornographic specialty store, and over several months before graduating high school not only receives quite an extra-curricular education, but also discovers that not all of the people in his life are who he thought they were - including his own mother.
Imperfect    by Melissa Clark
Price: $4.99 USD. 60250 words. Language: English. Published on March 15, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

Betsy Wheat purrs - a soft, gentle, seductive hum that manifests in pleasure. But the only problem is she’s horrified by it. Ruth Tichner is a hoarder and on the verge of cracking. The two women stumble through life doing their best to hide their secrets until their paths cross and healing is found in unexpected ways.
Slow to Grow    by Lonny Cyrelle
Price: Free! 78960 words. Language: English. Published on March 13, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

Laced with self deprecating humor and laced with a healthy dose of pathos, the novel, Slow to Grow, follows Lloyd Kulligan as he matures (slowly) over the course of 25 years from a lonely sex starved teenager to a middle aged married man (and still sex starved.
Too Old To Play    by David Todd
Price: $0.99 USD. 2470 words. Language: English. Published on March 11, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

Thirteen year old Danny Tompkins must deal with his mother's death, but on the day of the funeral people keep coming to his house, and seem to be partying. As he retreated to his bedroom, he couldn't understand why those adults behaved as they did, or why his younger cousins just kept playing. So he "hid" and fumed. Years later, the adult Daniel relives those memories, and writes about them.
Pretending Normal    by Mary Campisi
Price: $2.99 USD. 48330 words. Language: English. Published on March 10, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

A teenage girl struggles with her alcoholic father's humanness and the truths about family, with all of its flaws and weaknesses, as the bond that holds one to another, in love, loyalty, even death. Pretending Normal, fka Lies Imitating Life, was a past quarter finalist in Ray Bradbury’s New Century New Writer Award contest and a past semi-finalist in Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Award contest.
Een Zwarte Hond In De Sneeuw    by John Brosens
Price: $1.49 USD. 7590 words. Language: Dutch. Published by Uitgeverij Parelz on March 10, 2012. Fiction » Romance » Contemporary.

Er beginnen scheuren te komen in het huwelijk van Simone en Taco en ze zijn hiervoor in therapie. Hun therapeute raadt ze aan op vakantie te gaan naar een plek waar ze totaal op elkaar zijn aangewezen. In hartje december boeken ze een huisje in Schotland. Tijdens een wandeltocht door een afgelegen natuurgebied gaat het fout als ze overvallen worden door het Schotse weer.
The Boy in the Window    by R. Brady Frost
Price: $0.99 USD. 4160 words. Language: English. Published on March 9, 2012. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy.

In this heartfelt short story by R. Brady Frost, Andrew is a tender kid growing up tough in an abusive home, but things begin looking up when he encounters an enigmatic old man who is anything but ordinary.
La château du prince de Polignac    by Anthony Trollope
Price: $3.99 USD. 9500 words. Language: French. Published by Editions de  L'Herne  on March 7, 2012. Fiction » Classics.

Nouvelle écrite en 1859 et située au Puy-en-Velay, elle relate les amours tumultueuses de deux amants d’un certain âge. Trollope avait par la force des choses beaucoup voyagé en Europe dans sa jeunesse, ses parents ayant dû s’exiler à Bruxelles pour fuir leurs créditeurs, et il parlait assez couramment plusieurs langues, dont le français.