young men

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 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.

Draws from interviews with forty-nine male middle and high school students to explain what motivates adolescent boys and young men to read, presenting suggestions for improving literacy instruction.

Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.

The corruption of a young man becomes a portrait of the society that shaped his ambitions and destroyed him.

The coming of age story of, Amory Blaine, a young college man in his twenties including his years in prep school and his times at Princeton.

A novel tracing the relationship between parents and children through several generations of the Pontifex family, a middle class English family.

Odd Thomas, a short order cook at the Pico Mundo Grill, keeps his ability to speak with ghosts a secret from all but his girlfriend, Stormy, and the local police chief who he occasionally helps solve or prevent crime, but his unusual talent leads him and his fellow citizens into big trouble when a strange man comes to town followed by a horde of borachs--ghostly harbingers of mayhem.

Orno Tarcher arrives in New York alone, scared, and longing for his quiet Missouri town, when he meets Marshall Emerson, and he soon finds himself drawn into Marshall's web of evil, despair, and revenge.

A collection of letters written to young people that address a number of issues from predominately Hispanic and African-American men that include single parenthood, sexually transmitted diseases, the allure of materialism, and the power of words and faith.