PICTURES OF THE SHARK by THOMAS H. McNEELY Short Stories / Southern Fiction / Coming of Age Publisher: Texas Review Press Date of Publication: July 12, 2022 Number of Pages: 205 pages Scroll down for the Giveaway! A sudden snowfall in Houston reveals family […]
Category: coming of age
Synopsis From New England’s Storyteller, Steven Manchester, comes the nostalgia-filled sequel to Bread Bags & Bullies; a novel about growing up in a whacky family during the 1980s. Boom boxes, leg warmers, and Rubik’s Cubes—it’s all there. A hysterical walk down memory lane! It’s the summer of 1984, a season of dodging […]
Synopsis Seventeen-year-old Maggie Warshauer wants is to leave her stifled life in Filliyaw Creek behind and head to college. An outsider at school and uncertain of her own sexual identity, Maggie longs to start again somewhere new. Inspired by a long-dead biologist’s journals, scientific-minded Maggie spends her days sailing, exploring, and categorizing […]
Synopsis Small-time criminal, Taylor Callahan, dreams of starting her life over. When she inadvertently causes the death of a teenage girl who looks just like her, she does the only thing she can do: she takes over the dead girl’s life. Now, twenty-one-year-old Taylor must navigate the ins and outs of living […]
The Secrets We Conceal by S.R. Fabrico Category: Adult Fiction (18+), 300 pages Genre: Coming of Age, Women’s, Psychological and Family, Relationships Abuse/Child Abuse Release date: March 15, 2022 Synopsis A riveting coming of age story, that will make you laugh, cry and root […]
Synopsis Would you trust your developing years to a mysterious organization expecting a successful life in return? In the midst of the 2040s, Livvy Blunt, a girl with an unquiet mind, lives in confinement. Her home is a monastery, a place of silence and meditation created to keep her mind free from […]
Synopsis Yuki Hirano, is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki […]
Synopsis I’m seven years old and I’ve never had a best mate. Trouble is, no one gets my jokes. And Breaks-it isn’t helping. Ha! You get it, don’t you? Brexit means everyone’s falling out and breaking up. Huxley is growing up in the suburbs of London at a time of community tensions. […]
Synopsis I’m seven years old and I’ve never had a best mate. Trouble is, no one gets my jokes. And Breaks-it isn’t helping. Ha! You get it, don’t you? Brexit means everyone’s falling out and breaking up. Huxley is growing up in the suburbs of London at a time of community tensions. […]
The Only Way Home by Jeanette Minniti Category: Adult Fiction (18 +) , 242 pages Genre: Historical Fiction, Adventure, Coming of Age Publisher: Penning Press Release date: 4/1/2021 Synopsis Desperate times. Danger on the rails. A journey to save a family. It is 1933 inside a sweltering courtroom in […]