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Folly Of Youth

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No doubt about it: growing pains can hurt pretty bad, as these books about coming-of-age demonstrate. Oh well. We don’t stay young forever.
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    A tale of identity, adoption, and sibling bonds, the story unfolds in California, revealing secrets that propel Celestina and her sister Marina into an enchanting underwater realm.
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    From anonymous nobody to Internet sensation, Olivia Warren is living the vlogging dream. There’s just one problem: the girl in the vlogs isn’t her.
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    Midland, Texas 1957. Troy is a fifth grader growing up under the ominous and overhanging cloud of the dust bowl, McCarthyism and racism. At the centre of this storm is the respected veteran, and school principal, Raymond “Flyboy” Seaker together with the unintended consequences of good intentions.
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    The infatuated teenaged son of a murdered millionaire fights the cause for the police’s prime suspect, and his first love, Kitty Norris.
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    What if mythical creatures really existed? It’s 1819. A French explorer and his assistant have discovered a cave in the Russian wilderness. Inside are children with animal traits...or are they animals with human traits? And what can he do to protect them?
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    Caught in the captivating yet dangerous allure of her eccentric father, a young Deborah Lott learned how to have fun but also how to fear contamination and infection from the wider world. This coming of age memoir explores how, with the help of Moby Dick and a journey into sexual pleasure, the author narrowly avoided sharing her father’s plummeting descent into deep psychosis.
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    In this Victorian bildungsroman, John Halifax is an orphan determined to make a success of himself through honest hard work. Apprenticed by the tanner Abel Flecher, John is befriended by Abel’s invalid son who narrates John’s rising fortunes in business and in love, through the Industrial Revolution.
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    Banjo Grease is about life and death in a mill town where at each epiphany and rite of passage, the narrator yields a ration of innocence. When exchanging naivete for worldliness, what is lost in denying one's past?
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    Britain's answer to 'The Catcher In The Rye'?
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    A gifted young pianist returns to home scatter his mother's ashes. And discovers she was the 'Grace Kelly of porn'!
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    Life's seldom simple when you're part of 'the Naked Family'...
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    A darkly comic, but equally tragic account of a young girl’s 12 year battle with both anorexia and bulimia. This well-crafted and intensely personal story captures both the agony and ecstasy that comes with such acute bodily harm.
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    A sickly child in a lonely old house. But what lies behind the gate? Find out in this literary classic.
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