Ergebnis für "Kaplan" in Coming of Age

“A dazzling fictional debut, Jason Diamond’s Kaplan’s Plot calls to mind both John Irving’s darkly funny tales of family dysfunction and E. L. Doctorow’s evocative dives into the early 20th century American underworld. At the same, Diamond sneaks in deeper truths about family history...

Blisteringly sharp, hypersmart, and compulsively listenable—meet Isabel Kaplan’s searing debut novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul. "The rare kind of read that made me giggle just as much as it left me gutted." —Zakiya Dalila Harris, New York...

The Finish Line is a transforming and inspiring story about Tiffany, who thinks small chats with friends at lunchtime in school are all she will recall when she looks back on her school days. Her running and hard work bring about supportive people who change the ways she sees herself, her mother, and the world around her.

“Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing I’ve read in a long time.” —Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder A...

Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde–like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king and the corn dog is the “backbone of this great country.” “There is a typo on page 14. Other than that, this book is...

In 1983, a husband and wife were in an accident on the beltway. The man subsequently died. Eight months later, a biracial child was born to a White mother in a redneck valley that was not prepared to deal with him. Children can be cruel, and growing up was a struggle. Music became his voice to the world.

Brandon is a small town cowboy turned New York City reporter. Hope never left the small town. Twenty-five years ago, they fell in love in high school. Only one problem, she was the daughter of the Mormon Bishop and he the outsider who happened to be Catholic... and in 1977, rural Utah, that mattered. In 2006, he is returning to Utah for the funeral of his best friend - who married Hope.

Before she was a prisoner in Marianne's crystal mines or just another face among the multitudes in the city of Seven Skies, Maddy had a different name and everything she could want - governesses, gowns, and gold to fill her pockets. And though she wasn't the son her father had wanted, it was inevitable that one day, she would inherit his title.