coming of age

If Anya doesn't marry the guy her parents choose, this generation will be the last with pure Euros.She can live with that.They might not let her.The trouble is, that guy (the one Anya’s parents like) wants to be ship captain. That means staying on Hope. When there’s a new world within reach, waiting to be explored…

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Six teenagers from different backgrounds - outsider Kate, pirate Patrick, golden boy Teddy, princess Lady, loner Dana, and Dougie, the rebel - all find themselves on a South Coast bridge one Saturday night and decide to face their demons together.

Laura is hospitalized over her grief from losing her dear friend Travis Taylor. As her intimate memories of Travis haunt her, she hesitates to resume her life at the radio station without him. Will her relationship with another friend take a sudden turn, throwing a wedge between her and Colin? When Tank discovers Abigail made a major decision without consulting him first, his hurt turns to anger. Yet again, these two friends find themselves on opposing sides. The only difference this time is, her

Abigail and Bree made it through their freshman year with the help of one dedicated friend, Laura Chase. But what they could not see through their own struggles was the confusion, pain, and heartache that Laura endured while watching her friends suffer. To try and help them, she auditioned for a job at the college radio station. Now, she wants to be the eyes and ears of this institution if they are ever going to heal from the chaos the Campus Creeper bestowed upon the otherwise sleepy college community.

A wealthy girl from the Hamptons, Bree Van Tousen has known nothing but good fortune. But a horrific encounter on her first night in college leaves her broken, confused, and scared. Gradually, as Bree begins to heal, she finds solace in the arms of a forbidden man on campus. Knowing their infatuation with one another could cost him his job and her enrollment at the university, they are forced to keep their whirlwind romance a secret…from everyone. That is, until someone decides that their happiness needs to be destroyed.

On a cool spring evening in 1995 high school senior Abigail Price, an otherwise healthy girl, would suffer a seizure that would put her on a path to discover a love she never knew existed.

In the 1980s, I was a teenager trying to find my place in the world. Poetry was one of my coping mechanisms. In love: I hoped. I dreamed. I imagined. I experienced. In life: I struggled. I hated. I cried for help. I hoped. I overcame. I could be complex. I could be simple. I could be powerful. Misunderstood. Frustrated. In other words: A confused teenager using words to help cope. There was often beauty in that.

This is the story of a confident young girl who became a lost teenager, wanted to disappear, started to find herself, discovered love, was wild, reckless, and confused, but ultimately found a way to be okay. Told in her words as she lived them through her diaries, journals, poetry, and letters.

Aiyana Cassidy was born in 2080 in the Northern Imperium. Three weeks later, Kendra Foster-Briggs joined her. The world would never be the same. Their adventures (and misadventures) growing up would shape the rest of their lives and change the course of the future. For the first time, read these early stories as told by the only person qualified to do so: Kendra Cassidy! Enjoy these tales right from the source!

You would think that living in the limelight, being front-page news, and being the daughter of the most influential man in South Coast would be every girl’s dream. Not in the case of Amelia Saber. Nursing a broken heart, and tired of having her successes and failures published, Amelia flees South Coast for England to start a new life outside the shadow of her father. But can she really escape who she is? Amelia soon begins to realise that no matter where she goes, her past is still her past, and that home is a little closer than she initially thought it to be.

Brooke Lake is a girl caught in a town and a life she yearns to escape. Full of fear and questions without answers, she tries to escape, only to lose herself in a world that’s too much for her. Molly Shirley is a woman without a past and no foreseeable future. Her body is her best commodity, so she does whatever she has to do to survive.

When you’re embarrassed to step out your own front door, is happiness even possible? Jennifer’s life is falling to pieces. She’s out of work. Her brother’s in a coma. Her mom just died. And despite stellar qualifications, every job interview ends in rejection. Also, she’s heavier than she’s ever been. Trapped in a world of pain and confusion, Jennifer devotes herself to the one thing she can control: Lose the weight, by any means possible. Even if it means losing the only people she has left. Messy and real. Beautiful and harsh.

Beth and Cameron share a remarkable gift. Each can see into the other’s mind. A powerful and frightening organisation is abducting young people in order to harvest their organs for wealthy transplant clients. They seize Cameron. Can Beth use her powers to find him and save him before he goes under the surgeon’s knife? And if she can, what price must they both pay? Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman and Delia Owens, this exciting and fast-paced thriller will grip you to the very end.

In an anti-other political climate comes a novel giving voice to outcasts tyrannized by power. Jacob is a boy growing up in the seventies in the Deep South who emerges from a family of sexual deviancy and alcoholism masked by religion and materialism. Aided by a tribe of mentors, he learns to define who he is but struggles to find the balance between faith and sexuality. To embrace his true identity, Jacob must go on an exodus to face his demons and overcome the pressures to conform.

Hot pink hair can't hide you from high-tech hitmen. A timid and lonely sixteen-year-old girl hides from bullying in her dream world of dashing master spy dolls, blue-haired Katy Perry Barbies, and pink Hello Kitty dresses. And she hacks her way across the Net behind the avatar of a six foot four hunk with the handle Cowabunga Dude. A presidential video falls into her laptop and puts her pink paradise in peril. When the clandestine worlds of hacking and military technology collide with her secret crush, she faces the toughest decision of her young life.

Sweet, charming, and full of Christmas magic. It'll warm your heart for the holidays. Seventeen-year-old Evelyn Hart is a broken shell of her former self. She can't even talk to the boy-band-cute barista in the mall without having a panic attack afterward. As she heads to the Cayman Islands for a pre-Christmas trip with her family, she dives into her art, hoping to forget her troubles.

A dusty, second-hand book that makes one girl's wish come true—even as it destroys her life. Simone wants to be a normal teen with a normal family: Mom, Dad, and daughter. Instead, she has a mother who was dealt the cancer card and a father that took off to marry a younger woman. That meant every hour of Simone's life is about caring for her mother during her darkest hours. When Simone finds a cure, her world changes on a dime. Mom is pulled from the brink of death, and Simone is left holding the precious tome that gave the gift of life.