young men

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Great expectations

2011
A graphic novel adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, learns that a mysterious benefactor has ensured that he will be educated and raised as a gentleman.

Fight Club

a novel
1996
An insomniac, unhappy with his life, befriends a soap salesman who starts clubs designed to help its members relieve frustration by beating each other up. As the clubs begin springing up around the nation, the salesman's appetite for violence increases.

(--shards--)

2011
Ismet Prcic, a young Bosnian who escaped war and ended up living in California, tries to deal with his experiences by writing everything down, sharing moments from his childhood, letters to his mother, and details about the life of another man, who may not be real and was part of an elite group of soldiers.

David Copperfield

1981
A young boy in 19th-century London runs away from an unhappy home, finds employment in a wine factory, and becomes acquainted with a wide variety of characters in the city streets.

Guyland

the perilous world where boys become men
2009
Explores how young men are influenced by the other males they are surrounded with, drawing on interviews with sixteen- to twenty-six-year-old men to determine how a man's beliefs, actions, attitudes, and self-image are influenced by the males they surround themselves with as they enter adulthood.

The Barrio Kings

2010
Rosario Gomez, having given up gang life after his brother was killed, is working hard to be a good father and earn a promotion at his job when a friend from the barrio shows up and tempts him back into his old ways.

The house of tomorrow

2010
Sebastian Prendergast, having left the safety of the geodesic dome in which he lived after his grandmother had a stroke, meets sixteen-year-old Jared Whitcomb, and together the boys experience the angst of being teenagers while forming a punk rock band, but when Jared's grandma asks him to return to her home, he is faced with choosing between her dying wish and his newfound life.

The rule of four

2005
Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris are determined to unlock the centuries old mystery behind an ancient Renaissance text before their graduation from Princeton, but just as they are about to discover its secrets, the campus is rocked with a series of suspicious deaths.

Jacob's room

2008
Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man raised in Edwardian England, discovers as an adult that his life is lacking, but his search for fulfillment is sidetracked by the outbreak of World War I.

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