fiction / coming of age

Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, begins a correspondence with a mathematics student from Hungary, and the relationship creates a reckoning with life on the cusp of adulthood.

Journalist Leah Stevens decides to move to rural Pennsylvania with her old friend Emmy Grey for a new start, but her plans are threatened when a woman with an strange resemblance to Leah is assaulted nearby, and Emmy disappears days later. Leah pairs up with handsome police officer Kyle Donovan to investigate and the policeman begin to suspect that there is no Emmy Grey leaving Leah's credibility in question.

Aiko Cassidy, a fourteen-year-old with cerebral palsy, tired of posing for the sculptures that have made her mother famous, dreams of going to Japan to meet her father and become a great manga artist, but takes a life-changing trip to Paris, instead.

"Kya Clark is the 'Marsh Girl' of Barkley Cove on the North Carolina coast. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist, she took life lessons from the land, learning from the false signals of fireflies the real way of this world. Drawn to two young men from town who were intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opened herself to a new and startling world--until the unthinkable happens. When Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya"--OCLC.

Seventeen-year-old Masi Burciaga's barrio becomes more like a ghost town every day, but when she and other youths are recruited to erect a giant pyramid in hopes of attracting tourists, she wonders about the entrepreneur behind the scheme--and his attractive son.

Three brothers return home to their small town of Little Wing, Wisconsin, for a wedding and to reunite with another brother who stayed to farm their land, and, while there, they learn about the true meaning of adult friendship and love.

"Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle's girlfriend after the death of both of his parents. Now his uncle has gone missing, probably on a drug binge. It's Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday. Riggle, who's been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get the money together himself. His mission exposes him to a motley group of Opioid locals--encounters by turns perplexing, harrowing, and heartening. Meanwhile, Riggle marks each day by remembering the mythology his late mother invented for him about how the days got their names. With amazing directness and insight, Carr explores what it's like to be a high school kid in in the age of Trump, a time of economic inequality, addiction, confederate flags, and mass shootings. A work of empathy and insight that pierces to the heart of our moment through an unforgettable protagonist"--Provided by publisher.

Jasper Wishart has a condition where he sees colors when he hears sounds, so everything and everyone has their own unique color. Recently, Jasper sees a color he becomes haunted by; the color of murder. He is convinced that he has murdered his neighbor, Bee Larkham, so he tries to piece together the events leading up to the crime. But someone else is out there determined to stop him from finding out the truth.

In the 1960s, Elwood is college-bound until he makes a mistake that lands him at a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose staff profess to shape inmates into upstanding young men but who routinely deliver vicious beatings and sexual abuse and make sure resisters disappear forever. The shocked Elwood takes Martin Luther King's pacifist approach to events, but friend Turner has other ideas. Whitehead researched the Florida Industrial School for Boys (later the Dozier Academy), where a secret mass grave was found after its 2011 closure.

"The daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. For her little brother, Wavy is the only responsible adult. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house. Until her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with Kellen, one of her father's thugs with a heart of gold. And when she is a teenager, Wavy's relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world"--Back cover.