This prequel to Once a Runner is the story of a world-class athlete growing up in the 1950s and '60s on Florida's Gold Coast.
FICTION / Coming of Age
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Auteur:McFadden, Bernice L.Sommaire:Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most importantly, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family...
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Auteur:Joseph, FabiolaSommaire:Outed by her best friend in front of the whole neighborhood, Niya is trying to come to terms with being a lesbian. When she falls for her straight neighbor, Jamilla, there is no more denying who she really is. Niya will do whatever it...
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Auteur:Jones, Stephen GrahamSommaire:He was born an outsider and lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. They are mongrels, mixed blood, neither this nor that. But is he really...
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Auteur:Collins, Anna E.Sommaire:Interior designer Dani Porter buys the vacant lot next to her ex-fiancé's house--the house they were supposed to live in together, before he cheated on her with their realtor. Dani plans to build a vacation rental that will a)...
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Auteur:Alcott, KathleenSommaire:Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all crippled in various ways-in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart. When faced with eviction by Edith's estranged,...
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Auteur:Marais, BiancaSommaire:From the author of the beloved Hum If You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time and discover the ways that love...
- Auteur:Zhang, C Pam.Sommaire:
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION...
- Auteur:Leitch, WillSommaire:
Largely confined to his home by disability, Daniel spends the hours he's not online by observing his neighborhood from his front porch. One young woman passes by so frequently that spotting her out the window has almost become part...
- Auteur:Gnuse, A. J.Sommaire:
Elise knows every inch of the house. She knows which parts can take her in, hide her away. It's home, after all. The home her parents made for her, before they were taken from her in a car crash. And home is where you stay, no...
- Auteur:Murphy, MonicaSommaire:
Jake Callahan. Prince of the popular crowd. Quarterback. All the boys want to be his friend. He's the most popular boy in the senior class. And he hates me. Or so I thought. What I mistook for hatred turns out to be interest....
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Auteur:Boland, KatieSommaire:With unsentimental prose and ironic dialogue, Katie Boland brings to life a variety of characters who all have one thing in common—a need for something more. A literary debut by a refreshing new voice in fiction, the stories...
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Auteur:Dutton, ElizabethSommaire:"Dutton's fiction debut is a stellar, thought-provoking novel about life, death, California, music, and more... . If you've never been to California, you might feel like you have visited after reading this creative and...
- Auteur:Anappara, DeepaSommaire:
Discover the “extraordinary” ( The Washington Post ) debut novel that “announces the arrival of a literary supernova” ( The New York Times Book Review ),“a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate” (Chigozie Obioma)....
- Auteur:Murphy, MonicaSommaire:
We are that toxic high school couple you hear about, the one you witness in the hallway as they avoid each other. Finally it's our senior year and we're months away from never having to see each other again when disaster...
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Auteur:Watson, Sophie B.Sommaire:Cadillac Couches is a picaresque road trip novel that journeys from prairie to big city and back again. A quixotic tale set in the late nineties and framed by the popular Edmonton Folk Music Festival, it follows two music-smitten...
- Auteur:Francis, PatrySommaire:
Louie and Dahlia Moscatelli chose to be foster parents, but to boys only. Then their lives are irrevocably changed when a six-year-old indigenous girl comes to live with them.
- Auteur:Murphy, MonicaSommaire:
Eli Bennett: quarterback at our biggest rival high school and my brother's worst enemy. So why can't I stop thinking about him? The more I get to know him, the more I realize he's actually kind of, sweet. He's...
- Auteur:Welch, SusanSommaire:
Introspective Shannon Malone and her more popular sister Eliza are Irish twins and best friends. But when tragedy rocks the Malone family, secrets bloom and one sister leaves, possibly forever.
- Auteur:Novik, NaomiSommaire:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic. “The dark school of magic I’ve been waiting for.” Katherine...
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