Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Coming of Age

Mark and Amy were fifteen when they fell in love, two kids lighting up the night in the salt air of the boardwalk in the beach town of Harborwood, New Jersey. Back then everything thing seemed possible, including Mark’s future as a star baseball pitcher. Twelve years after high school, life hasn’t quite worked out the way either of them had planned, leaving each drifting in their own dark seas: Mark’s career derailed by injury and Amy recovering from a loveless marriage. After the funeral of his estranged father, Mark finds himself walking again along the boardwalk in...

A boy on the edge of adolescence fears his mother might be a robot; a psychotically depressed woman is entrusted with taking her niece and nephew trick-or-treating; a reluctant dad brings his baby to a debaucherous party; a teenage boy tries to prevent his mother from putting his estranged father's dogs to sleep. Ranging from a youth arts camp...

30 something Maxine, M to her friends, seems to be on her way to having it all. Until... jilted and
unemployed, her life is turned upside down.
All M knows, or thought she knew about men, life and love is seriously questioned. With friends
by her side, M discovers just how surprising life can be.
A witty and poignant story of women, their strength, and what happens when love doesn't
change everything.

Heart Land is a fictional memoir of a bright and reckless boy growing up in rural Ohio in 1939, a the close of the Depression and before American's entrance into World War II.

Ockley Green is a Sleepy farming community where a kid with an active imagination is as likely to convince his younger brother that monsters are under the bed as he is to learn from the men wo gather at the local diner to talk crops and politics.

In this safe world, Oliver Larson makes mistakes and learns about taking responsibility - important lessons in the making of a man.

Instruction begins when...

These stories deal with pleasure, sad reflection, proof of our endurance and show how we can take comfort in having held true to a serious sense of high values regarding life and our fellow man. They also pose questions, like, "Why does God allow bad people to survive their horrible deeds but allow an innocent victim to die?" All of them prove the mind of a dedicated human being is a powerful thing.

A stunning star-crossed love story set against the glitz and grit of 1980s New York City

When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. Elise...