Ayad Akhtar Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina long before he met her: his mother's beautiful, brilliant, and soulfully devout friend is a family legend. When he learns that Mina...

Hilary Thayer Hamann Falling in love, maintaining fragile family relationships and growing to understand the incremental effect of every experience, Hilary Thayer Hamann's coming-of-age novel is a depiction of sexual...

Tawni O'Dell Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and...

AN Wilson A World War II orphan, raised by his aunt and uncle in an English village, comes of age with many childhood notions changed by his schooling and his...

John Green Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo from afar. So when she climbs through his window to summon him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help...

Charles Simmons On an isolated island off the New England coast, fifteen-year-old Michael and his parents begin their customary lazy vacation - swimming, sailing, dreaming, reading. Nothing to worry about,...

Elana Ferrante “Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my...