Coming of age (131)
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Counterattacks at Thirty by Won-Pyung Sohn, Sean Lin Halbert translator EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
From the bestselling author of ALMOND, The Devil Wears Prada meets The Office in this witty, humane, and ultimately transformative story of a group of young workers who rebel against the status quo. Jihye is an ordinary woman who has never been extraordinary. In her administrative job at the Academy, she silently tolerates office politics and the absurdities of Korean bureaucracy. Forever only one misplaced email away from career catastrophe, she effectively becomes a master of the silent eye-roll and the tactical coffee run. But all her efforts to endure her superiors and the semi-hostile wor... continue
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Der Sommer, als ich fliegen lernte by Jasminka Petrović DE
SerbiaDescription:
Ein feinsinniger und vielschichtiger Coming-of-Age-Roman – berührend, leicht, spannend! Ab Frühjahr 2023 im Kino. Endlich Sommerferien – eigentlich die schönste Zeit des Jahres für die dreizehnjährige Sofija. Aber in diesem Jahr ist alles anders. Statt mit ihren Freundinnen in Belgrad abzuhängen, muss sie mit ihrer Oma auf die kroatische Insel Hvar zu Omas Schwester Lucija fahren. Für die beiden Frauen ist es das erste glückliche Wiedersehen seit dem Zerfall Jugoslawiens in den 1990er Jahren. Für Sofija hingegen ist es ein absoluter Teenager-Albtraum: Um sie herum nur alte Leute, Mücken ohne E... continue
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Die Möglichkeit von Glück by Anne Rabe DE
GermanyDescription:
In der DDR geboren, im wiedervereinigten Deutschland aufgewachsen. Als die Mauer fällt, ist Stine gerade einmal drei Jahre alt. Doch die Familie ist tief verstrickt. In ein System, von dem sie nicht lassen kann, und in den Glauben, das richtige Leben gelebt zu haben. Bestechend klar und kühn erzählt Anne Rabe von einer Generation, deren Herkunft eine Leerstelle ist.
Stine kommt Mitte der 80er Jahre in einer Kleinstadt an der ostdeutschen Ostsee zur Welt. Sie ist ein Kind der Wende. Um den Systemwechsel in der DDR zu begreifen, ist sie zu jung, doch die vielschichtigen ideologis... continue
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Dreams Beyond the Shore by Tamika Gibson EN
Country: North America / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
"Seventeen-year-old Chelsea March and was pretty satisfied with her life. Until recently. Willing to play the dutiful daughter as her father's bid to become Prime Minister of their island home brings her family into intense public scrutiny, Chelsea is swept along by the strong tidal wave of politics and becomes increasingly disturbed by her father's duplicity. She finds a reprieve when she meets Kyron, a kindred spirit encased in low riding blue jeans. The two share a bond as he too struggles to get beyond his father's shadow. But when Chelsea discovers an even darker more sinister side to her... continue
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Family Meal : A Novel by Bryan Washington EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
“Tender and poignant, Washington’s latest hits the spot.” – PEOPLE Magazine From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss. Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, and unexpected. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, ... continue
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Flesh, Bone and Water by Luiza Sauma EN
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Brazilian-born doctor André Cabral is living in London when one day he receives a letter from his home country, which he left nearly thirty years ago. A letter he keeps in his pocket for weeks, but tells no one about. The letter prompts André to remember the days of his youth - torrid afternoons on Ipanema beach with his listless teenage friends, parties in elegant Rio apartments, his after-school job at his father's plastic surgery practice - and, above all, his secret infatuation with the daughter of his family's maid, the intoxicating Luana. Unable to resist the pull of the letter, André em... continue
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Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
An “enthralling” (Los Angeles Times) novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school—by the legendary author “who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers” (The New York Times Magazine) “Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written, Fox is yet further proof Oates is one of the greatest writers among us today.”—Gillian Flynn “I found it mesmerizing front to back.”—Michael Connelly “I can’t remember the last time I read something so (dark... continue
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German Room by Carla Maliandi EN
Country: South America / 
Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
A non-coming of age story where a woman tries to escape her problems by moving to Germany, but instead finds her life only becoming more complicated.
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Go as a River by Shelley Read EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A riveting and deeply moving debut--a love story in the spirit of Where the Crawdads Sing--that is both a stunning exploration of the natural world and an unforgettable coming-of-age novel. Victoria Nash is just a teenager in the 1940s, but she runs the household on her family's peach farm in the ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land in the Four Corners region, who wants to believe one place is just like another. When Victoria encounters Wil on a street corner, t... continue