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Title: Mystery of the Stardust Monk

Series: Part of Wells of the Onesong

Author: Dawn Blair

Narrator: Dawn Blair

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Release date: June 30, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

No one paid much attention to the chipped and broken monk statue holding the iridescent stardust orb in the garden. Not until Moonhunter showed up. Then, the universe reawakened to its existence. Stolen on her watch, Calliesar tracks the statue and the orb. Her hope lies with Moonhunter and his mysterious connection to sense the ancient stardust. Only through him will she be able to track it across the universe. Can she regain it before the other Black Nights discover she has lost it? A mistake like that could cost her life. Journey now with the author of The Doorway Prince in a science fantasy novella crossing both the Wells of the Onesong and the Space Ninja stories in an epic, prequel adventure to Stardust.

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Title: The Hard Edge of Magic

Series: #1 of The Ruptured Kingdom

Author: Allan N. Packer

Narrator: Greg John

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Release date: June 28, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Hungry and desperate, Kylen knows what it’s like to be an outcast. Plucked from the streets by a tight-lipped stranger, he begins to dream of a better life. But his rescuer turns out to be a renegade mage. In an instant Kylen finds himself transformed from a person of no account to a dangerous fugitive.   But much more than his life might be at stake. Dark forces are stirring, and an ancient evil is poised, ready to be unleashed on an unsuspecting kingdom. Comfortable and arrogant, the kingdom's mages are bent on destroying the one person capable of saving them.   On the run with his mentor, Kylen tries to ignore the voices whispering about his destiny. Of what use is a fabled destiny when you’re struggling to survive?   If you enjoy epic fantasy with gripping action and relatable characters in a compelling coming of age saga, then try the novels of The Ruptured Kingdom now!

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Title: Early Sobrieties

Author: Michael Deagler

Narrator: Alex Mortensen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Dennis Monk is about to spend his first summer sober. At twenty-six he is ready to re-join sensible adult life, but just when Dennis needs stability, his uptight parents kick him out into a world of couch-surfing. Everything around him has changed and everyone he knows seems to be doing better than he is. At every street corner, former classmates, estranged drinking buddies, and prospective lovers threaten to burst the bubble of his recovery. And Dennis Monk is about to learn the difference between getting sober and staying sober in this new world. Early Sobrieties is a devastatingly witty novel about coming of age a second time. Deagler’s debut marks the arrival of an astonishing new voice in American fiction. 'Michael Deagler is the real deal . . . This is a truly intelligent work from a clearly intelligent writer' PERCIVAL EVERETT 'Illuminating and moving' AIMEE BENDER ©2024 Michael Deagler (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Title: The Sugar House

Series: #2 of Clara Batchelor Trilogy

Author: Antonia White

Narrator: Kim Bretton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Release date: June 25, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The year is 1920. Clara Batchelor, the heroine of The Lost Traveller, is now an actress with a touring repertory company and is passionately in love with the wholly unsuitable Stephen Tye. When Stephen betrays her, Clara betrays herself by agreeing to marry Archie, the fiance she discarded four years before. A friendship but not a love match, the marriage is a desperate attempt by Clara to rekindle the safety of childhood. But neither of them are children any more and their dream sugar house begins to dissolve. The Sugar House is the second in the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which began with The Lost Traveller and continues in Beyond the Glass. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.

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Title: The Lost Traveller

Series: #1 of Clara Batchelor Trilogy

Author: Antonia White

Narrator: Kim Bretton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Release date: June 25, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

When Clara returns home from the convent of her childhood to begin life at a local girls' school, she is at a loss: although she has comparative freedom, she misses the discipline the nuns imposed and worries about keeping her faith in a secular world. Against the background of the First World War, Clara experiences the confusions of adolescence—its promise, its threat of change. She longs for love, yet fears it, and wonders what the future will hold. Then tragedy strikes and her childhood haltingly comes to an end as she realizes that neither parents nor her faith can help her. The Lost Traveller is the first in the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which continues with The Sugar House and Beyond the Glass. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.

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Title: And the Walls Came Down

Author: Denise Da Costa

Narrator: Julienne Irons

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Release date: June 25, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A troubled Delia Ellis returns to her old neighborhood, Don Mount Court, to retrieve a beloved childhood diary. While the entries uncover significant revelations around her mother’s past, it is Delia's return home that leads to a true understanding of the circumstances that forged her identity.

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Title: Long Division: A Novel

Author: Kiese Laymon

Narrator: Ruffin Prentiss Iii, Jaime Lincoln Smith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Release date: June 25, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Fiction From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi. Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared. Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson—but Long Division is set in 1985. This 1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these items with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet to protect his family from the Ku Klux Klan. City’s two stories ultimately converge in the work shed behind his grandmother’s house, where he discovers the key to Baize’s disappearance. Brilliantly “skewering the disingenuous masquerade of institutional racism” (Publishers Weekly), this dreamlike “smart, funny, and sharp” (Jesmyn Ward), novel shows the work that young Black Americans must do, while living under the shadow of a history “that they only gropingly understand and must try to fill in for themselves” (The Wall Street Journal).

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Title: Honey: The hottest y2k nostalgia read for summer

Author: Isabel Banta

Narrator: Max Meyers, Helen Laser, Brittany Pressley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Release date: June 25, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

I didn't like to perform. I liked to be loved. 'Like Daisy Jones soaked in Britney Spears' Curious' HOLLY BOURNE 'It's a delightfully bubblegum novel of hot summer nostalgia' LITHUB 'A sexy swagger of a debut' EMMA STRAUB It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It's a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group Cloud9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town. She quickly finds herself in the orbits of fellow rising stars Gwen Morris, a driven singer-dancer, and Wes Kingston, a member of the biggest boy band in the world, ETA. As Amber embarks on her solo career and her fame intensifies, she increasingly finds herself reduced to a body, a voice, an object. Surrounded by the wrong kind of people and driven by a desire for recognition and success, for love and sex, for agency and connection, Amber comes of age at a time when the kaleidoscope of public opinion can distort everything, and one mistake can shatter a career. Inspired by the starlets of the 90s and noughties who became as infamous for their personal lives as their hypersexualised music videos and lyrics, Honey is a novel about the journey from girlhood to womanhood and how far we are willing to go in the pursuit of love . . . Readers LOVE Honey 'Honey is going to be one of THE books of the summer' 'A knockout debut novel' 'Daisy Jones meets 90s/00s early pop!' 'From start to finish the nostalgia I felt while reading this book was UNREAL!' 'This definitely gives Britney Spears, Mandy Moore and Christina Aguilera vibes' 'I was captivated every second' 'My favourite book of the year so far, hands down' 'I loved each and every character'

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Title: How the Light Gets In: A Novel

Author: Joyce Maynard

Narrator: Joyce Maynard

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Release date: June 25, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways—a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor. Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby’s older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife; their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old resentments, anger, and bitterness simmer just beneath the surface. How the Light Gets In follows Eleanor and her family through fifteen years (2010 to 2024) as their story plays out against a uniquely American backdrop and the events that transform their world (climate change, the January 6th insurrection, school violence) and shape their lives (later-life love, parental alienation, steadfast friendship). With her trademark sensitivity and insight, Joyce Maynard paints an indelible portrait of characters both familiar and new making their way over rough, messy, and treacherous terrain to find their way to what is, for each, a place to call “home.”

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Title: The Unforgettable Loretta, Darling

Author: Katherine Blake

Narrator: Erin Shanagher

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Hollywood has it’s secrets. But so does Loretta… Loretta bursts onto Sunset Boulevard brimming with moxie – she knows that if you want to get anywhere in life, you have to make it happen yourself. And boy is she determined to make her dreams come true! Only Loretta is getting the backlot tour of Tinseltown. It turns out that where the palm trees disappear and the trash vans are parked up, this town of fantasy and make-believe is less dashing fellas sipping chilled martinis – more sticky floors and misbehaving men. However Hollywood may have bitten off more than it can chew with Loretta because there's not just lipstick lurking in her beauty case. This may be her dream, but she's stepped out from Hollywood's nightmares. And Loretta Darling bites back ©2024 Katherine Blake (P)2024 Penguin Audio