bildungsromans

Faced with problems at home, Jackie finds solace in her small tattoo.

Seventeen-year-old Jordan, a skilled, self-confident rock climber, plans to turn his favorite sport into a lifelong career until an ascent near the small town of Vantage, Washington, turns deadly.

Contains two magical-realist stories by Francesca Lia Block including "Witch Baby" and "Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys.".

Joshua is torn between loyalty to his French-Indian father and his desire to fit into the white man's world.

Memoir of Brad Listi, who after his pregnant ex-girlfriend committed suicide embarked on a journey along the East Coast and through the American West, ultimately ending up in the Black Rock Desert at the Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet with a lot of meditations on modern life and philosophy.

Donna's discovery that she wants to be a mortician helps her come into her own and finally understand that moving forward doesn't mean forgetting someone you love.

On the day that Maya and her father arrive in India from Canada to bring her mother's ashes to their final resting place, Indira Gandhi is assassinated. In the chaos Maya loses her father and she must trust a young man, Sandeep, to help her find her father.

When best friends Hattie and Delores become bored with life in their small town, they decide to take a road and bring an old horse along with them in order to save his life and search for rangeland in the west where he can survive. However, when their trip takes an unexpected turn, they must confront the reasons why they left home in the first place.

After fifteen-year-old Phillip Flowers meets Rebekah, he struggles with faith, family, friendship, and first love as he tries to become the kind of person he thinks she wants him to be and discovers that life goes on even after dealing with the complex questions about life.

Nella Castelluca, daughter of Italian immigrants, lives on a farm outside Roseto, Pennsylvania, and dreams of living in town away from the hard life of her parents. Nella falls in love with the handsome poet Renato Lanzara, who suddenly leaves town and breaks Nella's heart. When he reappears four years later the night before Nella's wedding to another, Nella's life is forever changed.