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Howard Norman’s The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas, is a bird artist: he draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale, Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime—a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal, guilt, and redemption between men and women. The Bird Artist is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

In a coming-of-age story, young Mattie and Kip tap dance and ride the rails during the Great Depression. Separated by a perceived betrayal and a train crash, the two friends lose each other for a lifetime. At ninety-nine, Mattie recalls the roving youth who set her life in motion and confides her deepest regrets to her granddaughter, who discovers lessons in the past for present challenges.

In a dorm room at her safety school, surrounded by corn-fed boys and contemptuous girls, Alice is losing her mind. Her first semester is spent clinging to middling grades between drunken hookups and roommate fights. The next brings sleepless nights, extreme weight loss, and effortless, compulsive energy, paused only by an unexpected summoning from the RA for evaluation.

Meet Orlando: a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, poet, lover, adventurer—and, after a transformational sleep, a woman. Spanning over 300 years of British history, Orlando bends the rules of time, gender, and narrative as its protagonist navigates shifting societies, identities, and expectations, all while seeking something elusive: the truth of the self. Playful, profound, and radically ahead of its time, Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel is part love letter, part satire, and part meditation on the fluid nature of existence.

Boy Altared explores themes of memory, secrecy, resilience, and personal development in religious settings, focusing on the tension between innocence and experience without explicit detail. The novel follows Jamie’s growth during the late 1960s, set against pivotal events like the Manson murders, moon landing, Woodstock, the Stonewall riots, the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Guided by Father Nelson and Harry, Jamie faces challenges within the church that mirror broader societal changes.

A debut historical novel destined to become a classic like Little Women, this coming-of-age story records an upstate New York family’s suffering and growth through World War I and its aftermath through the eyes of a young woman. Eleanor Foerster, a bright and irreverent fourteen-year-old...

Justin’s Life is an exciting journey that follows the adventures of a curious and intelligent boy named Justin as he grows from childhood into adulthood. Living in the imaginative world of Alora, Justin experiences many unforgettable moments from meeting brilliant minds and solving puzzles to surviving dangerous situations and learning important life lessons. Throughout the story, Justin faces challenges at school, builds strong friendships, explores science and mathematics, and discovers the value of courage, honesty, and determination.

Arriving on the Isle of Harris with swash and bluster, three young American students are set to run a marathon the islanders know nothing about.

À Castellane, il y a toujours eu deux rois. Tout Castellane ne parle plus que du massacre qui a ébranlé l'Éminence. Pour honorer son serment, Kel se doit d'en démasquer les instigateurs, quitte à mentir à celui qu'il considère comme son frère. À force d'enquêter, il lève le voile sur...

Esta historia es un viaje sin retorno por la memoria, la libertad y el deseo de Josefa, una mujer que vivió fuera de tiempo, con demasiada lucidez y ningún margen para rendirse.

Imagine My Surprise! is the fictional memoir of Keenan Solomon Harris, a seven-year-old who claims to be the reincarnation of a murdered San Francisco drug kingpin, Kurt Houston.

Raised in a conservative Christian home in the East Coast of Canada, Mag is urged to preserve her purity at all costs. Desperate to secure her place in heaven, she rejects the hyper-sexual youth culture of her small town—until she falls for a magnetic, sophisticated girl while attending a program designed to usher young people into Evangelical Missionary work. Spiraling into shame and regret, Mag breaks away from the Church and launches herself into the world of sex for hire, attempting to shed her repressive past and become an anti-virgin—the antithesis of who she was raised to be.

Two boys grow to manhood and remain best friends despite differences in race, religion, and political views. Historical fiction from early 1960s to early 1980s, the action takes place in Panama, Thailand, and America. The boys come of age in challenging times and situations, supporting each other through riots, tragedy, dating, college, grief, professional life, marriage, and children. One of them is assassinated and the other knows the truth. No one who has read the book has guessed the ending!

An unforgettable coming-of-age story from a stunning new voice in Australian fiction, for those who love Mark Brandi, Favel Parrett and Tim Winton. I was six, turning seven, and all I really remember is the loneliness, and the lumpy feeling that I was somehow doing everything wrong. And then I...

SET IN DUBLIN'S LIBERTIES, Estelle Birdy's explosively original debut Ravelling channels the energies and agonies of young men let loose in the city, their city, navigating the tumultuous trajectory of youth and young manhood, where they balance their hopes with the harsh realities of their present. Hurtling between friendships, feuds, drug-deals, family and brushes with the law, this is modern Dublin as never before portrayed.

Mara hat nicht damit gerechnet, dass sie mit Mitte zwanzig so viel Geld erben würde, dass sie eine Wohnung in London kaufen kann. Der möchte zurück in seine Heimat zu Freunden und Familie. Sie entschließen sich dazu, eine Fernbeziehung auszuprobieren, denn wie schwer kann das schon sein?

The number one bestselling author of global sensation LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY returns with an irresistible, delightful, and tender story about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned...

‘To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in – who wants...

Emily-Elizabeth Seawatcher's summer of '68 promises sun, fun, and backyard adventures. But she never expected it to include Danny Corsair, a boy whose inexplicable abilities blur the lines between fantasy and reality. As they set sail aboard a scarlet-sailed pirate ship, Emily-Elizabeth discovers a world where dreams connect minds and intuition becomes prophecy.

This was supposed to be the best year of Rowan Lancaster's life. Instead, thanks to a massive linebacker, his ankle is broken and his last football season at Lancaster Prep is done. Just like that. Now his days are dull and gray. Boring. Except for the days that include Arabella Hartley Thomas. She's the girl everyone wants to be friends with. Beautiful but approachable. Stylish. Quirky. Yet she gets under Rowan's skin like no other, and he doesn't understand why. Sure, they flirt and banter and give each other grief.