Coming-of-Age

 

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain ISBN: 9780060885618 Price: $14.99 From the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara,  this National Book Award finalist is a razor sharp satire set in Texas during the American war in Iraq about the gaping disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. A Catch-22 for our times. Read More...	Canada Richard Ford ISBN: 9780061692031 Price: $15.99 Pulitzer Prize winning Ford delivers a haunting novel about the cataclysmic event that undoes one teenage boy's family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace, only to confront violence in its purest form. Read More...
The Family Fang Kevin Wilson ISBN: 9780061579059 Price: $13.99 Filled with endless creativity, vibrant prose and sharp humor, The Family Fang is a novel about the art of surviving a masterpiece of dysfunction: a family of demanding, brilliant oddballs. In the tradition of Wes Anderson'sThe Royal Tenenbaums. Read More...	Maya’s Notebook Isabel Allende ISBN:  9780062105639  Price: $15.99 An international bestseller, this suspenseful contemporary coming of age novel is narrated by an American teenage girl who falls into a life of drugs, crime, and prostitution and is forced to flee for her life. Read More...
The Round House Louise Erdrich ISBN: 9780062065254 Price: $15.99 This 2012 National Book Award winner is the story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. Read More...	Rule of the Bone Russell Banks ISBN: 9780060927240 Price: $13.99 In the tradition of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Banks' quintessential novel of Bone, a disaffected homeless youth living on the edge of society, redefines the young modern anti-hero. Read More...
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski ISBN: 9780061374234 Price: $16.99 A riveting saga about a young, mute boy and the family he is forced to flee from when catastrophe strikes. "A mesmerizing read, audaciously envisioned as classic Americana." – Janet Maslin, The New York Times. Read More...	Ten Thousand Saints Eleanor Henderson ISBN: 9780062021212 Price: $15.99 The New York Times bestselling, multigenerational drama that reveals the emotional tangle of births, deaths, loves and losses that shape families, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 80s. Read More...