Books tagged: coming of age

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This Pale Shadow    by K. Anthony Pagano
Price: $0.99 USD. 12130 words. Published on October 11, 2012. .

Mortally wounding an innocent person shakes Leo to his core—fleeing, he wakes in Wendy's bedroom. Meanwhile, Alexander must do what no spectral knight has ever done before: borrow nosferatu skin. And, Charles calls in a favor from Nancy, breaking more than ten years of radio silence. She has a vision: a jungle beast is coming for her!
Shadow    by Rhonda Tibbs
Price: $2.99 USD. 70520 words. Published on October 12, 2012. .

Shadow is the first in a planned series of books on the enduring friendship of Danny Coulter and Isabelle Long.
Brezlun    by Chris Mason
Price: $3.99 USD. 130970 words. Published on October 13, 2012. .

For millennia the colonists of the planet Brezlun have lived in peace, in four utterly different cultures. The last of the starship’s androids, missing for centuries, returns to demand that a young woman join him on a quest, to travel the world and reestablish communication with the ship before he breaks down. But a fanatical sect of assassins threatens to kill anyone who attempts this blasphemy.
Favorite Family Lecutres    by Terry Paulson
Price: $4.99 USD. 13240 words. Published on October 13, 2012. .

Sometimes the most important things in life are the hardest to talk about. Whether it's the keys to the car or the keys to life, this book helps parents and teens talk about the tough issues that matter most. This is a reassuring and practical book that helps teens and parents talk and laugh together about life's most important lessons.
Love in the A Shau    by Denis J. LaComb
Price: $2.99 USD. 155930 words. Published on October 14, 2012. .

“Love in the A Shau” is the story of driving ambition and passion set in the turbulent 1960s. Daniel, a struggling college freshman, has nothing. Colleen, a daughter of wealth, has it all. Both fight society’s prejudices to find themselves and an everlasting love. This untypical love story explores class in America, Vietnam, old world values, and family traditions.
My Sore Hush-a-Bye    by Renata F. Barcelos
Price: $2.99 USD. 52870 words. Published on October 14, 2012. .

Camille learned to love and accept her sheltered life with Uncle Bob. But she's growing up and everything is changing. She goes to public school, where no one talks to her, except Ashley. Now that Ashley's missing, Camille starts thinking about her mother and rethinking her life with Uncle Bob and everything she chose to believe.
The Quixotics    by John Wayne Falbey
Price: $2.99 USD. 101610 words. Published on October 15, 2012. .

A tale of coming of age in the Baby Boomer generation. The time is 1970 and three young men have returned from military service in Vietnam. To earn some badly needed cash, they grudgingly agree to deliver a cargo of weapons to anti-Castro insurgents in Cuba. Before this tale is over, each man will come to realize, as Cervantes said, “Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within".
Blossoms and Bayonets: A Story of Love, Faith and Courage under Japanese Occupation    by Jana McBurney-Lin
Price: $9.99 USD. 118230 words. Published on October 15, 2012. .

Based on a true story, Blossoms & Bayonets is suffused with the tense atmosphere of World War II in the Pacific. The story lends an eyewitness perspective to events as they unfold for one family in Korea, revealing an era of nuance and complexity. The result is a work that speaks volumes about the power of faith.
Ashley Templeton Is Ruining My Life    by Kate Aspengren
Price: $2.99 USD. 35430 words. Published by Foreverland Press  on October 15, 2012. .

It's clear that this is not the seventh grade that Kyle Reedy had planned. And that's because of Ashley Templeton. He’s pretty sure that every single problem he's having is all her fault. [Middle Grade: Ages 8-12] "This novel is filled with laughs and irresistible characters. I loved them all—even Ashley Templeton." —Mary Vermillion, author of Seminal Murder
Big Lies in Small Town    by Karen Kennedy Samoranos
Price: $4.99 USD. 82310 words. Published by Musa Publishing  on October 15, 2012. .

The world is an amazing gift, like life, but its putrefaction is overwhelming, and I cannot allow its stench to touch my family.