It's All About Survival    by Cyn Bagley
Price: $1.49 USD. 5820 words. Language: English. Published on January 27, 2012. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure.
Chrissie ends up doing Randy's chores, Randy is her brother, when Chrissie is faced with a life and death situation. Another short story from the "living in the desert" series.

Original Son    by Bernie Lincicome
Price: $4.99 USD. 79640 words. Language: English. Published on January 26, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
Life is black and white in Perry, Ohio.

The Domino Effect    by Andrew Cotto
Price: $0.99 USD. 62160 words. Language: English. Published on January 25, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
A humorous and heartfelt story about growing up and growing wise, The Domino Effect is the story of Danny Rorro, a charismatic kid from Queens poisoned by the past.

In the Time of Water: living in the desert    by Cyn Bagley
Price: $1.49 USD. 5300 words. Language: English. Published on January 23, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Alternative history.
As the world aged, the American deserts became hotter and hotter until they became similar to the the dune deserts of the Sahara. Alice hauls five gallons of water to her village on the edge of the desert. Without her water, the village people may not survive. It is a short story of desert and survival.

Rarity from the Hollow    by Robert Eggleton
Price: $5.99 USD. 101560 words. Language: English. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on January 23, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
"Lacy Dawn’s father relives the Gulf War, her mother has lost her teeth, and her best friend is killed by her own father. But Lacy Dawn has one advantage—she’s been befrended by a semi-organic semi-robot (DotCom, alias Buddy) who works with her to ‘cure’ her parents. Buddy wants something in exchange, though. It’s up to Lacy Dawn to save the universe." --Books for a Buck

The Queenslander    by Robert Macklin
Price: $7.99 USD. 119790 words. Language: English. Published by BWM Books  on January 23, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
Palmer Lingard is The Queenslander. Palmer Lingard grew up in a quiet respectable suburb, in the Brisbane of the 1950s. He is emerging from the sunny, secure world of childhood into the vulnerability of adolescent self-consciousness, romanticism, and insistent, baffling sexuality; a charmed time, when fantasy and reality can magically overlap, and hideously clash;

Anna-Belinda    by Jeannie van Rompaey
Price: $1.99 USD. 5010 words. Language: English. Published on January 20, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
Anna and Belinda are twins, one seemingly more beautiful and talented than the other. Belinda considers herself the other and lives in the shadow of her sister. At times she worships her, at others despises her. After Anna leaves, Belinda has to find a way to get on with her own life, even if the cost is sacrificing her memories of Anna.

Taming The Tiger    by John Rocha
Price: Free! 2650 words. Language: English. Published on January 19, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
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It is a time of turmoil and Civil War in China. The Communists and Nationalists are at war. Xiao Yian, a young teenage girl escapes rape and famine to become a circus performer - a Tiger Tamer - in Shanghai. There she has to face up to the fact that she must leave her teenage years behind her and accept her future as a woman.

The Care and Feeding of Rubber Chickens: A Novel    by Scott William Carter
Price: $5.99 USD. 79850 words. Language: English. Published by Flying Raven Press  on January 18, 2012. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Humor.
"My dad owns a rubber chicken factory." With this zany first line, readers are launched on a surprisingly poignant coming-of-age journey. Part buddy story, part road trip adventure, and part ruminations on the difference between love and infatuation, Carter offers up a vivid portrait of a young man who blunders into a thousand-mile quest to tell the girl of his dreams how he really feels.

The Kaserne    by Stephen Ricker
Price: $4.99 USD. 140620 words. Language: English. Published on January 18, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
“Daddy? What did you do during The Eternal Cold War?” In the tradition of MASH and Catch-22, The Kaserne answers that question on behalf of several ten-millions who served abroad in this vividly realistic story of soldiers, civilians, men and women, Americans and Germans on a small forlornly threadbare US Army base in Germany.