Random House New Releases - Fiction - Coming Of Age

Soulkeepers by Lori Adams

2014-01-07T00:30:00-05:00

Soulkeepers
Written by Lori Adams

eBook, 288 pages | Flirt | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Contemporary Women | $ | 978-0-345-54925-9 (0-345-54925-2)

Pulling the Switch by Cassie Mae

2013-12-30T00:30:00-05:00

Pulling the Switch
Written by Cassie Mae

eBook | Flirt | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Contemporary Women | $ | 978-0-345-54882-5 (0-345-54882-5)

Three Broken Promises by Monica Murphy

2013-12-10T00:30:00-05:00

Three Broken Promises A Novel
Written by Monica Murphy

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Contemporary Women | $14.00 | 978-0-8041-7680-4 (0-8041-7680-9)

Three Broken Promises by Monica Murphy

2013-12-10T00:30:00-05:00

Three Broken Promises A Novel
Written by Monica Murphy

eBook, 240 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Contemporary Women | $ | 978-0-8041-7681-1 (0-8041-7681-7)

Second Chance Boyfriend by Monica Murphy

2013-11-05T00:30:00-05:00

Second Chance Boyfriend A Novel
Written by Monica Murphy

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Contemporary Women | $14.00 | 978-0-8041-7679-8 (0-8041-7679-5)

From breakout New Adult author Monica Murphy comes the exhilarating conclusion to Drew and Fable’s story—the star-crossed young romance that began in One Week Girlfriend.

Lost. Everything in my life can be summed up by that one sickening word. My football coach blames me for our season-ending losses. So does the rest of the team. I wasted two whole months drowning in my own despair, like a complete loser. And I lost my girlfriend—Fable Maguire, the only girl who ever mattered—because I was afraid that being with me would only hurt her.

But now I realize that I’m the one who’s truly lost without her. And even though she acts like she’s moved on and everything’s fine, I know she still thinks about me just as much as I think about her. I know her too well. She’s so damn vulnerable, all I want to do is be there to help her . . . to hold her . . . to love her.

I just need her to give me one more chance. We may be lost without each other, but together, we’re destined to find a love that lasts forever.

Isn't She Lovely by Lauren Layne

2013-10-28T00:30:00-05:00

Isn't She Lovely Flirt New Adult Romance
Written by Lauren Layne

eBook | Flirt | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Contemporary Women | $2.99 | 978-0-345-54911-2 (0-345-54911-2)

The Antagonist by Lynn Coady

2013-10-08T00:30:00-05:00

The Antagonist
Written by Lynn Coady

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Family Life; Fiction - Coming Of Age | $15.00 | 978-0-345-80251-4 (0-345-80251-9)

A piercing epistolary novel, The Antagonist explores, with wit and compassion, how the impressions of others shape, pervert, and flummox both our perceptions of ourselves and our very nature.

Gordon Rankin Jr., aka “Rank,” thinks of himself as “King Midas in reverse”—and indeed misfortune seems to follow him at every turn. Against his will and his nature, he has long been considered—given his enormous size and strength—a goon and enforcer by his classmates, by his hockey coaches, and, not least, by his “tiny, angry” father. He gamely lives up to their expectations, until a vicious twist of fate forces him to flee underground. Now pushing forty, he discovers that an old, trusted friend from his college days has published a novel that borrows freely from the traumatic events of Rank’s own life. Outraged by this betrayal and feeling cruelly misrepresented, he bashes out his own version of his story in a barrage of e-mails to the novelist that range from funny to furious to heartbreaking.

With The Antagonist, Lynn Coady demonstrates all of the gifts that have made her one of Canada’s most respected young writers. Here she gives us an astonishing story of sons and fathers and mothers, of the rewards and betrayals of male friendship, and a large-spirited, hilarious, and exhilarating portrait of a man tearing his life apart in order to put himself back together.

Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk

2013-10-08T00:30:00-05:00

Doomed
Written by Chuck Palahniuk

Hardcover, 336 pages | Doubleday | Fiction - Satire; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Coming Of Age | $24.95 | 978-0-385-53303-4 (0-385-53303-9)

Madison Spencer, the liveliest, snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the adventures in the afterlife begun in Damned. Having somewhat reluctantly escaped from Hell, she now wanders the Purgatory that is Earth as a ghostly spirit, seeking her do-gooding celebrity parents, fighting the malign control of Satan, recounting the disgracefully funny (to us, anyway) encounter with her grandfather in a fetid highway rest stop in upstate New York when she . . . oh, never mind, and climaxing in a rendezvous with destiny on the new, totally plastic continent in the Pacific called, not at all accidentally, Madlantis.

Dante Aligheri, watch your back, Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on you.

Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk

2013-10-08T00:30:00-05:00

Doomed
Written by Chuck Palahniuk

eBook, 336 pages | Doubleday | Fiction - Satire; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Coming Of Age | $12.99 | 978-0-385-53315-7 (0-385-53315-2)

The Funeral Dress by Susan Gregg Gilmore

2013-09-24T00:30:00-05:00

The Funeral Dress A Novel
Written by Susan Gregg Gilmore

Trade Paperback, 352 pages | Broadway | Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Family Life; Fiction - Historical | $16.00 | 978-0-307-88621-7 (0-307-88621-2)

A deeply touching Southern story filled with struggle and hope.

Emmalee Bullard and her new baby are on their own. Or so she thinks, until Leona Lane, the older seamstress who sat by her side at the local shirt factory where both women worked as collar makers, insists Emmalee come and live with her. Just as Emmalee prepares to escape her hardscrabble life in Red Chert holler, Leona dies tragically. Grief-stricken, Emmalee decides she’ll make Leona’s burying dress, but there are plenty of people who don't think the unmarried Emmalee should design a dress for a Christian woman - or care for a child on her own. But with every stitch, Emmalee struggles to do what is right for her daughter and to honor Leona the best way she can, finding unlikely support among an indomitable group of seamstresses and the town’s funeral director. In a moving tale exploring Southern spirit and camaraderie among working women, a young mother will compel a town to become a community.

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The Funeral Dress by Susan Gregg Gilmore

2013-09-24T00:30:00-05:00

The Funeral Dress A Novel
Written by Susan Gregg Gilmore

eBook, 352 pages | Broadway | Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Family Life; Fiction - Historical | $9.99 | 978-0-307-88622-4 (0-307-88622-0)

At the Bottom of Everything by Ben Dolnick

2013-09-03T00:30:00-05:00

At the Bottom of Everything A Novel
Written by Ben Dolnick

eBook, 256 pages | Pantheon | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Family Life; Fiction - Coming Of Age | $12.99 | 978-0-307-90799-8 (0-307-90799-6)

A stunning novel of friendship, guilt, and madness: two friends, torn apart by a terrible secret, and the dark adventure that neither of them ever meant to embark upon.

It's been ten years since the "incident," and Adam has long decided he's better off without his former best friend, Thomas. Adam is working as a tutor, sleeping with the mother of a student, spending lonely nights looking up his ex-girlfriend on Facebook, and pretending that he has some more meaningful plan for an adult life. But when he receives an email from Thomas's mother begging for his help, he finds himself drawn back into his old friend's world, and to the past he's tried so desperately to forget. As Adam embarks upon a magnificently strange and unlikely journey, Ben Dolnick unspools a tale of spiritual reckoning, of search and escape, of longing and reaching for redemption-- a tale of near hallucinatory power.

At the Bottom of Everything by Ben Dolnick

2013-09-03T00:30:00-05:00

At the Bottom of Everything A Novel
Written by Ben Dolnick

Hardcover, 256 pages | Pantheon | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Family Life; Fiction - Coming Of Age | $24.95 | 978-0-307-90798-1 (0-307-90798-8)

Leading Man by Benjamin Svetkey

2013-09-03T00:30:00-05:00

Leading Man
Written by Benjamin Svetkey

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Coming Of Age | $14.95 | 978-0-307-94961-5 (0-307-94961-3)

Leading Man by Benjamin Svetkey

2013-09-03T00:30:00-05:00

Leading Man
Written by Benjamin Svetkey

eBook, 320 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Coming Of Age | $9.99 | 978-0-307-94962-2 (0-307-94962-1)

One Week Girlfriend by Monica Murphy

2013-08-27T00:30:00-05:00

One Week Girlfriend A Novel
Written by Monica Murphy

Trade Paperback, 224 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Contemporary Women | $14.00 | 978-0-8041-7678-1 (0-8041-7678-7)

Breakout sensation Monica Murphy takes the New Adult genre by storm with the deeply emotional, completely addicting story of Drew and Fable.

Temporary. That’s the word I’d use to describe my life right now. I’m temporarily working double shifts—at least until I can break free. I’m temporarily raising my little brother—since apparently our actual mother doesn’t give a crap about either of us. And I always end up as nothing but the temporary girlfriend—the flavor of the week for every guy who’s heard the rumor that I give it up so easily.

At least Drew Callahan, college football legend and local golden boy, is upfront about it. He needs someone to play the part of his girlfriend for one week. In exchange for cash. As if that’s not weird enough, ever since he brought me into his world, nothing really makes sense. Everyone hates me. Everyone wants something from him. And yet the only thing Drew seems to want is . . . me.

I don’t know what to believe anymore. Drew is sweet, sexy, and hiding way more secrets than I am. All I know is, I want to be there for him—permanently.

Ostrich by Matt Greene

2013-08-27T00:30:00-05:00

Ostrich A Novel
Written by Matt Greene

Trade Paperback, 336 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Family Life | $15.00 | 978-0-345-54521-3 (0-345-54521-4)

A brilliant and moving coming-of-age story in the tradition of Wonder by R. J. Palacio and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime by Mark Haddon—this debut novel is written with tremendous humor and charm.

This is Alex’s story. But he doesn’t know exactly what it’s about yet, so you probably shouldn’t either.

Instead, here are some things that it’s sort of about (but not really):

It’s sort of (but not really) about brain surgery.

It’s sort of (but not really) about a hamster named Jaws 2 (after the original Jaws (who died), not the movie Jaws 2).

It’s sort of (but actually quite a lot) about Alex’s parents.

It’s sort of (but not really) about feeling ostrichized (which is a better word for excluded (because ostriches can’t fly so they often feel left out)).

It’s sort of (but not really (but actually, the more you think about it, kind of a lot)) about empathy (which is like sympathy only better), and also love and trust and fate and time and quantum mechanics and friendship and exams and growing up.

And it’s also sort of about courage. Because sometimes it actually takes quite a lot of it to bury your head in the sand.

Ostrich by Matt Greene

2013-08-27T00:30:00-05:00

Ostrich A Novel
Written by Matt Greene

eBook, 336 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Family Life | $9.99 | 978-0-345-54520-6 (0-345-54520-6)

Ostrich by Matt Greene

2013-08-27T00:30:00-05:00

Ostrich A Novel
Written by Matt Greene

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Family Life | $17.50 | 978-0-8041-2749-3 (0-8041-2749-2)

Love and Lament by John Milliken Thompson

2013-08-06T00:30:00-05:00

Love and Lament
Written by John Milliken Thompson

Trade Paperback, 400 pages | Other Press | Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Family Life | $15.95 | 978-1-59051-587-7 (1-59051-587-0)

A dauntless heroine coming of age at the turn of the twentieth century confronts the hazards of patriarchy and prejudice, and discovers the unexpected opportunities of World War I

Set in rural North Carolina between the Civil War and the Great War, Love and Lament chronicles the hardships and misfortunes of the Hartsoe family.

Mary Bet, the youngest of nine children, was born the same year that the first railroad arrived in their county. As she matures, against the backdrop of Reconstruction and rapid industrialization, she must learn to deal with the deaths of her mother and siblings, a deaf and damaged older brother, and her father’s growing insanity and rejection of God.

In the rich tradition of Southern gothic literature, John Milliken Thompson transports the reader back in time through brilliant characterizations and historical details, to explore what it means to be a woman charting her own destiny in a rapidly evolving world dominated by men.

Random House New Releases - Fiction - Coming Of Age

Soulkeepers by Lori Adams

Soulkeepers Written by Lori Adams

Pulling the Switch by Cassie Mae

Pulling the Switch Written by Cassie Mae

Three Broken Promises by Monica Murphy

Three Broken Promises A NovelWritten by Monica Murphy

Three Broken Promises by Monica Murphy

Three Broken Promises A NovelWritten by Monica Murphy

Second Chance Boyfriend by Monica Murphy

Second Chance Boyfriend A NovelWritten by Monica Murphy

Isn't She Lovely by Lauren Layne

Isn't She Lovely Flirt New Adult RomanceWritten by Lauren Layne

The Antagonist by Lynn Coady

The Antagonist Written by Lynn Coady

Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk

Doomed Written by Chuck Palahniuk

Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk

Doomed Written by Chuck Palahniuk

The Funeral Dress by Susan Gregg Gilmore

The Funeral Dress A NovelWritten by Susan Gregg Gilmore

The Funeral Dress by Susan Gregg Gilmore

The Funeral Dress A NovelWritten by Susan Gregg Gilmore

At the Bottom of Everything by Ben Dolnick

At the Bottom of Everything A NovelWritten by Ben Dolnick

At the Bottom of Everything by Ben Dolnick

At the Bottom of Everything A NovelWritten by Ben Dolnick

Leading Man by Benjamin Svetkey

Leading Man Written by Benjamin Svetkey

Leading Man by Benjamin Svetkey

Leading Man Written by Benjamin Svetkey

One Week Girlfriend by Monica Murphy

One Week Girlfriend A NovelWritten by Monica Murphy

Ostrich by Matt Greene

Ostrich A NovelWritten by Matt Greene

Ostrich by Matt Greene

Ostrich A NovelWritten by Matt Greene

Ostrich by Matt Greene

Ostrich A NovelWritten by Matt Greene

Love and Lament by John Milliken Thompson

Love and Lament Written by John Milliken Thompson

Soulkeepers
Written by Lori Adams

Pulling the Switch
Written by Cassie Mae

Three Broken Promises A Novel
Written by Monica Murphy

Three Broken Promises A Novel
Written by Monica Murphy

Second Chance Boyfriend A Novel
Written by Monica Murphy

Isn't She Lovely Flirt New Adult Romance
Written by Lauren Layne

The Antagonist
Written by Lynn Coady

Doomed
Written by Chuck Palahniuk

Doomed
Written by Chuck Palahniuk

The Funeral Dress A Novel
Written by Susan Gregg Gilmore

The Funeral Dress A Novel
Written by Susan Gregg Gilmore

At the Bottom of Everything A Novel
Written by Ben Dolnick

At the Bottom of Everything A Novel
Written by Ben Dolnick

Leading Man
Written by Benjamin Svetkey

Leading Man
Written by Benjamin Svetkey

One Week Girlfriend A Novel
Written by Monica Murphy

Ostrich A Novel
Written by Matt Greene

Ostrich A Novel
Written by Matt Greene

Ostrich A Novel
Written by Matt Greene

Love and Lament
Written by John Milliken Thompson