Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age

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Title: everyman: a novel

Author: M Shelly Conner

Narrator: Janina Edwards

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Release date: July 20, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Eve Mann arrives in Ideal, Georgia, in 1972 looking for answers about the mother who died giving her life. A mother named Mercy. A mother who for all of Eve’s twenty-two years has been a mystery and a quest. Eve’s search for her mother, and the father she never knew, is a mission to discover her identity, her name, her people, and her home. Eve’s questions and longing launch a multigenerational story that sprawls back to the turn of the twentieth century, settles into the soil of the South, the blood and souls of Black folk making love and life and fleeing in a Great Migration into the savage embrace of the North. Eve is a young woman coming of age in Chicago against the backdrop of the twin fires and fury of the civil rights and Black Power movements—a time when everything and everyone, it seems, longs to be made anew. At the core of this story are the various meanings of love—how we love and, most of all, whom we love. everyman is peopled by rebellious Black women straining against the yoke of convention and designated identities, explorers announcing their determination to be and to be free. There is Nelle, Eve’s best friend and heart, who claims her right both to love women and to always love Eve as a sister and friend. Brother Lee Roy, professor and mentor, gives Eve the tools for her genealogical search while turning away from his own bitter harvest of family secrets. Mama Ann, the aunt who has raised Eve and knows everything about Mercy, offers Eve a silence that she defines as protection and care. But it is James and Geneva, two strangers whom Eve meets in Ideal, who plumb the depths of their own hurt and reconciliations to finally give Eve the gift of her past, a reimagined present, and finally, her name.

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Title: [German] - Das Haus meiner Väter

Author: Jørn Riel

Narrator: Samy Andersen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Release date: July 15, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Ein eindrucksvoller Roman über das Leben in der unberührten Wildnis der Arktis! Der Inuit-Junge Agorajaq lebt mit seiner Adoptivfamilie – zwei Vätern und drei Onkeln – im eisigen Norden und verbringt dort eine unbeschwerte Kindheit. Aus seiner Sicht wird eine bunte Sammlung von Geschichten erzählt: über das Leben und die Kultur der Inuit, die Lebenswege seiner Familie, über Zusammenhalt und Gemeinschaft, und über Agorajaqs eigenen Weg zum Erwachsenwerden. 'Riel erzählt in süchtig machender Manier von Kindheit und Jugend in der Arktis, von raufenden, saufenden, herzerwärmenden Helden und Heldinnen. 'Das Haus meiner Väter' ist drastisch, witzig, lehrreich und voiller Poesie.' - Brigitte-

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Title: [German] - Aufregende Zeiten

Author: Naoise Dolan

Narrator: Franziska Grün

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Release date: June 24, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Eine beißend komische, zeitgenössische Beziehungsgeschichte, zärtlich und einfühlsam erzählt.Ava ist 22 und hat keine Ahnung, was sie mit ihrem Leben anstellen soll. Doch dann trifft sie Julian. Einen Banker. Einen Banker, der gerne Geld für sie ausgibt. Und plötzlich findet sie sich im Gästezimmer seiner Wohnung wieder und trinkt Clos Vougeot, spricht über schwankende Kurse und hat Sex. Ihre Einkommensunterschiede sind groß, und sie bewahren die selbsternannte Linke und Feministin Ava vor unangenehmen Fragen. Oder macht es sie vielleicht zu einer schlechten Feministin, dass er für alles zahlt?Das wird sie herausfinden, sobald es vorbei ist. Julian verreist für längere Zeit – und Edith tritt auf den Plan. Edith, die ihr zuhört, wenn sie spricht, und ihr Freesien und Tulpen schenkt. Aber dann kehrt Julian doch unerwartet nach Hongkong zurück ...'Lustig, klug und unerschrocken – ein triumphales Debüt' – Hilary Mantel-

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Title: The Ice Lion

Series: #1 of The Rewilding Reports

Author: Kathleen O'neal Gear

Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Sisi Aisha Johnson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Release date: June 15, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

This cli-fi novel from a notable archaeologist and anthropologist explores a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an apocalyptic Ice Age One thousand years in the future, the zyme, a thick blanket of luminous green slime, covers the oceans. Glaciers three-miles-high rise over the continents. The old stories say that when the Jemen, godlike beings from the past, realized their efforts to halt global warming had gone terribly wrong, they made a desperate gamble to save life on earth and recreated species that had survived the worst of the earth's Ice Ages. Sixteen-summers-old Lynx and his best friend Quiller are members of the Sealion People—archaic humans known as Denisovans. They live in a world growing colder, a world filled with monstrous predators that hunt them for food. When they flee to a new land, they meet a strange old man who impossibly seems to be the last of the Jemen. He tells Lynx the only way he can save his world is by sacrificing himself to the last true god, a quantum computer named Quancee.

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Title: [German] - Im Wasser sind wir schwerelos

Author: Thomas Jedrowski

Narrator: Emil Schwarz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Release date: June 3, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Anfang der 1980er Jahre, Polen: Vor dem Hintergrund des gewaltsamen Niedergangs des Kommunismus entwickelt sich eine zarte und leidenschaftliche Liebesgeschichte zwischen zwei jungen Männern, die sich schließlich auf entgegengesetzten Seiten der politischen Kluft wiederfinden - ein erstaunlich poetisches und herzergreifendes literarisches Debüt!Als der Universitätsstudent Ludwik in einem landwirtschaftlichen Sommercamp auf den gutaussehenden Janusz trifft, ist er fasziniert von diesem unbekümmerten Fremden. Eine zufällige Begegnung am Fluss wird bald zu einer intensiven, aufregenden und alles verzehrenden Liebesaffäre. Nachdem ihre Pflichten im Camp erfüllt sind, verbringen die beiden ein paar traumhafte Wochen auf dem Land, weit weg von den gesellschaftlichen Zwängen des repressiven Kommunismus und des katholischen Glaubens und verlieben sich zutiefst ineinander.-

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Title: The Light Through the Leaves: A Novel

Author: Glendy Vanderah

Narrator: Susannah Jones

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Go on a powerful journey of forgiveness and healing with The Light Through the Leaves, a transcendent novel of love, loss, and self-discovery by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars. One unbearable mistake at the edge of the forest. In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended—for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola’s abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well—into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain wildernesses she treks alone. In a remote area of Washington, a young girl named Raven keeps secrets inside, too. She must never speak to outsiders about how her mother makes miracles spring from the earth, or about her father, whose mysterious presence sometimes frightens her. Raven spends her days learning how to use her rare gifts—and more important, how to hide them. With each lesson comes a warning of what dangers lie in the world beyond her isolated haven. But despite her mother’s cautions, Raven finds herself longing for something more. As Ellis and Raven each confront their powerful longings, their journeys will converge in unexpected and hopeful ways, pulled together by the forces of nature, love, and family.

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Title: Requiem Moon

Series: #2 of Scarlet Odyssey

Author: C. T. Rwizi

Narrator: Susan Dalian, Kimberly Woods, Marcus Stewart, James Shippy, Janina Edwards, Korey Jackson, Adenrele Ojo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Release date: March 23, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Salo must journey into the heart of darkness to find his way back home in the next epic book of C. T. Rwizi’s debut series. Salo’s queen has finally accepted his desire to be a mystic despite taboos concerning men’s use of magic. But her acceptance is not support; it is strategy. Under a disguise of the queen’s making, Salo enters Jungle City as a pilgrim to the Red Temple, only to find a magical barrier barring his entrance. Left at the mercy of the warring political factions that run the city, Salo faces a series of obstacles wrought by an unseen hand, knowing he cannot return home without completing his pilgrimage. But Isa, King of the Saire clan, has her own plans for Salo. She needs his help to extract the Covenant Diamond from the Red Temple’s inner sanctum—an artifact with the power to end her tribe’s divisions, prevent a genocide, and even save herself from her fate. His new task in hand, Salo navigates a cursed maze of invisible authority—and when he encounters shocking revelations about the power residing in the depths of the undercity, he must wield his magic to finally bring the truth about his world’s history to light.

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Title: Wings of Fury

Series: #1 of Wings of Fury

Author: Emily R. King

Narrator: Lauren Ezzo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

From Emily R. King, author of the Hundredth Queen series, comes an epic novel of ancient Greece, Titans and treachery, and the women who dare to rise up against the tyranny of the Golden Age. My mother told me that men would speak about the Golden Age as a time of peace and happiness for all… However, the women of our age would tell a very different story… Cronus, God of Gods, whose inheritance is the world. Among his possessions: women, imprisoned and fated to serve. The strong-minded Althea Lambros controls her own fate and lives to honor her dying mother’s plea to protect her two sisters at all costs. Althea’s journey toward crushing the tyranny has begun. It is a destiny foretold by the Fates. And she is following their visions. On the southern isle of Crete, hidden among mortal women who have fled the Titans, is the Boy God, son of Cronus and believed dead. He shares Althea’s destiny to vanquish the Almighty—fate willing. Because Cronus has caught wind of the plot. He’s amassing his own forces against Althea’s righteous rebellion and all those who will no longer surrender or run. There will be war. If she’s to survive to write their history, the indomitable Althea must soar higher than any god.

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Title: The Family Ship: A Novel

Author: Sonja Yoerg

Narrator: Lisa Flanagan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Release date: February 23, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

From the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of True Places comes a disarming and emotional novel about a family in distress and a daughter’s mission to keep it from going under. Chesapeake Bay, 1980. Eighteen-year-old Verity Vergennes is the captain of the USS Nepenthe, and her seven younger siblings are her crew. The ship—an oyster boat transformed into a make-believe destroyer—is the heart of the Vergennes family, a place both to play and to learn responsibility. But Verity’s had it with being tied to the ship and secretly applies to a distant college. If only her parents could bear to let her go. Maeve and Arthur Vergennes already suffered one loss when, five years earlier, their eldest son, Jude, stormed out and never returned. Now Maeve is pregnant again and something’s amiss. Verity yearns to follow her dreams, but how can she jump ship now? The problem, and perhaps the answer, lies with Jude. When disaster strikes and the family unravels, Verity must rally her sibling crew to keep the Nepenthe and all it symbolizes afloat. Sailing away from home, she discovers, is never easy—not if you ever hope to find your way back.

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Title: West with Giraffes: A Novel

Author: Lynda Rutledge

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 107

Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 32

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America. “Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes…” Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world’s first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes. Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it’s too late.