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Title: Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

Author: Nash Jenkins

Narrator: Will Damron

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 22 hours 0 minutes

Release date: May 16, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

“[A] striking debut. . . funny, heartbreaking, and real.”––SAM LANSKY, author of Broken People          Prep meets The Secret History in this searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly millennial lens          When Foster Dade arrives at Kennedy, an elite boarding school in New Jersey, the year is 2008. Barack Obama begins his first term as president; Vampire Weekend and Passion Pit bump from the newly debuted iPhone; teenagers share confidences and rumors over BlackBerry Messenger and iChat; and the internet as we know it is slowly emerging from its cocoon. So, too, is Foster emerging—a transfer student and anxious young man, Foster is stumbling through adolescence in the wake of his parents’ scandalous divorce. But Foster soon finds himself in the company of Annabeth Whittaker and Jack Albright, the twin centers of Kennedy’s social gravity, who take him under their wing to navigate the cliques and politics of the carelessly entitled.          Eighteen months later, Foster will be expelled, following a tragic scandal that leaves Kennedy and its students irreparably changed. When our nameless narrator inherits Foster’s old dorm room, he begins an epic yearslong investigation into what exactly happened. Through interviews with former classmates, Foster’s blog posts, playlists, and text archives, and the narrator’s own obsessive imagination, a story unfurls—Foster’s, yes, but also one that asks us who owns our personal narratives, and how we shape ourselves to be the heroes or villains of our own stories.         Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos is about privilege and power, the pitfalls of masculinity and its expectations, and, most distinctly, how we create the mythologies that give meaning to our lives. With his debut novel, Nash Jenkins brilliantly captures the emotional intensities of adolescence in the dizzying early years of the twenty-first century. *Includes a downloadable PDF of Foster Dade's iTunes Playlists

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Title: [German] - The Love Test - Versuch's noch mal mit Liebe (Ungekürzt)

Author: Jenny L. Howe

Narrator: Corinna Dorenkamp

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Release date: May 12, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

'Originell, clever, prickelnd!' Ali Hazelwood Allison liebt die Literatur und hat bislang jede Hürde auf dem Weg zum Promotionsprogramm ihrer Träume überwunden. Was sie gar nicht liebt: Das Niveau an der Uni könnte kaum abgehobener sein, die Stühle jedoch kaum kleiner (zumindest zu klein für Allisons Kurven). Und dann taucht Colin auf - ihr Ex, der ihr auf üble Weise das Herz gebrochen hat und ihr nun ihren Job an der Uni streitig macht. Was als geistiger Wettstreit beginnt, verwandelt sich bald in ein erbittertes Gefecht - bis Allison sich fragen muss, was sie eigentlich von der Liebe auf den zweiten Blick hält ... 'Enemies to Lovers, und das in der akademischen Welt? Ja, bitte! Ein absolut süßes, rasantes Abenteuer.' Jodie Picoult

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Title: Midnight Shadows

Series: #3 of The Girls from the Street Series

Author: S.E. Smith

Narrator: Allison River

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Release date: May 9, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

She was born on the streets; he was born to rule … Sheikh Junayd Saif-Ad-Din wears the royal, sophisticated persona of wealth and power. He became a doctor to help his people, but his bloodline comes from the desert and a long line of warriors. His sophisticated veneer dissolves when he witnesses an assault while at a society function—and meets a mysterious woman who emerges from the darkness. Despite living in a time when staying under the radar is a monumental task, Midnight Rain moves through society as an apparition. Her life was forged by the fires of the streets and she makes her living protecting others. She lives by just two rules: she only works at night and she tries to stay alive. Junayd is determined to find the enigmatic woman who appeared from out of the night. Positive that she is his Chosen, the woman he is destined to love, Junayd will use every resource available to find her. From the dark streets of New York City to the beautiful desert kingdom of Jawahir, danger stalks Midnight and Junayd. Can two modern-day warriors, one who lives in the shadows and one who thrives in the bright light of the desert, defeat a deranged man intent on killing them?

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Title: Lucky Girl: A Novel

Author: Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu

Narrator: Musu-Kulla Massaquoi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a life in New York City that challenges all her beliefs about race, love, and family. “Readers will find a poignant, memorable voice they’ll feel lucky to have met.”—Harper’s Bazaar (Best Summer Beach Reads of 2023) Soila is a lucky girl by anyone’s estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative mother and a chorus of aunts, she has lived a protected life in Nairobi. Soila is headstrong and outspoken, and she chafes against her mother’s strict rules. After a harrowing assault by a trusted family friend, she flees to New York for college, vowing never to return home. New York in the 1990s is not what Soila imagined it would be. Instead of finding a golden land of opportunity, Soila is shocked by the entitlement of her wealthy American classmates and the poverty she sees in the streets. She befriends a Black American girl at school and witnesses the insidious racism her friend endures, forcing Soila to begin to acknowledge the legacy of slavery and the blind spots afforded by her Kenyan upbringing. When she falls in love with a free-spirited artist, a man her mother would never approve of, she must decide whether to honor her Kenyan identity and what she owes to her family, or to follow her heart and forge a life of her own design. Lucky Girl is a fierce and tender debut about the lives and loves we choose—what it meant to be an African immigrant in America at the turn of the millennium, and how a young woman finds a place for herself in the world.

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Title: Cuckoo in the Nest

Author: Fran Hill

Narrator: Charlie Sanderson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

It's the heatwave summer of 1976 and 14-year-old would be poet Jackie Chadwick is newly fostered by the Walls. She desperately needs stability, but their insecure, jealous teenage daughter isn't happy about the cuckoo in the nest and sets about ousting her. When her attempts to do so lead to near-tragedy – and the Walls' veneer of middle-class respectability begins to crumble – everyone in the household is forced to reassess what really matters. Funny and poignant, Cuckoo in the Nest is inspired by Fran Hill's own experience of being fostered. A glorious coming of age story set in the summer of 1976.

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Title: The All-American: A Novel

Author: Joe Milan Jr.

Narrator: Jason Vu

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Seventeen-year-old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad's disappearance; he can't even pronounce his Korean name correctly. Running through the woods of rural Washington State with a tire tied to his waist, his sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads the US government to deport him to South Korea, he's forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his life. One mishap leads to another, and as an outsider, Bucky has to fall back on not just his raw physical strength, but resources of character and attitude he didn't know he had. In an expat bar in Seoul, in the bleak barracks of his Korean military, on a remote island where an erratic sergeant fights a shadow-war with North Korean spies, and in the remote town where he seeks out his drunken, indebted biological father, Bucky has to assemble the building blocks of a new language and stubbornly rebuild himself from scratch. That means managing his ego, insecurities, sexual desires, family legacies, and allegiances in order to make it back home—wherever that might be—and determine who he is to himself, who he is to others, and what kind of man he wants to become.

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Title: [German] - Hufeland, Ecke Bötzow (Ungekürzt)

Author: Lea Streisand

Narrator: Lea Streisand

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Release date: April 20, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Der real existierende Sozialismus gibt Franzi Halt, jenseits der ironischen Bemerkungen der Eltern, die einem doch nie alles erzählen und sich über ihre abendlichen Geheimtreffen in der Küche stets in Schweigen hüllen. Erzählen ist sowieso ein Problem. Wem darf man was sagen? Franzi und ihre Freunde verstehen es nicht, und so versuchen sie von einem Ostberliner Hinterhof aus, die Welt auf ihre Weise zu erkunden. Doch dann fällt die Mauer, und alle Gewissheiten brechen zusammen. Bis sich am Ende sogar Freundschaften als Trugschluss erweisen. Lea Streisands neuer Roman, der bei GOYALiT als mitreißende Autorenlesung erscheint, thematisiert das Aufwachsen zur Zeit der Wende.

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Title: [German] - 22 Bahnen: Lieblingsbuch des unabhängigen Buchhandels 2023

Author: Caroline Wahl

Narrator: Carolin Haupt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Release date: April 18, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Tildas Tage sind strikt durchgetaktet: studieren, an der Supermarktkasse sitzen, sich um ihre kleine Schwester Ida kümmern und an schlechten Tagen auch um die Mutter. Zu dritt wohnen sie im traurigsten Haus der Fröhlichstraße in einer Kleinstadt, die Tilda hasst. Ihre Freunde sind längst weg, leben in Amsterdam oder Berlin, nur Tilda ist geblieben. Denn irgendjemand muss für Ida da sein, Geld verdienen, die Verantwortung tragen. Nennenswerte Väter gibt es keine, die Mutter ist alkoholabhängig. Eines Tages aber geraten die Dinge in Bewegung: Tilda bekommt eine Promotion in Berlin in Aussicht gestellt, und es blitzt eine Zukunft auf, die Freiheit verspricht. Und Viktor taucht auf, der große Bruder von Ivan, mit dem Tilda früher befreundet war. Viktor, der genau wie sie immer 22 Bahnen schwimmt. Doch als Tilda schon beinahe glaubt, es könnte alles gut werden, gerät die Situation zu Hause vollends außer Kontrolle. ›22 Bahnen‹ ist eine raue und gleichzeitig zärtliche Geschichte über die Verheerungen des Familienlebens und darüber, wie das Glück zu finden ist zwischen Verantwortung und Freiheit. »Caroline Wahl findet das Besondere im Alltäglichen und das Tröstliche im Schmerzvollen. Ein berührendes und feinsinniges Buch, mit dem man gern befreundet wäre.« BENEDICT WELLS »Ich bin durch ›22 Bahnen‹ gerauscht und hellauf begeistert. Herzerwärmend, fein, gnadenlos und richtig schön zugleich.« ALINA BRONSKY

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Title: The Year of Jubilee

Author: Cindy Morgan

Narrator: Sisi Aisha Johnson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Release date: April 18, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The Mockingbird family has always lived peacefully in Jubilee, Kentucky, despite the divisions that mark their small town. Until the tense summer of 1963, when their youngest child, Isaac, falls gravely ill. Middle sister Grace, nearly fourteen, is determined to do whatever it takes to save her little brother. With her father and mother away at the hospital, Grace is left under the loving but inexperienced eye of her aunt June, with little to do but wait and worry. Inspired by a young teacher’s mission for change, she begins to flirt with danger—and with a gifted boy named Golden, who just might be the key to saving Isaac’s life. Then the unthinkable happens, and the world as she knows it shifts in ways she never could have imagined. Grace must decide what she believes amid the swirling, conflicting voices even of those she loves the most.From gifted songwriter Cindy Morgan comes this lyrical, tender tale of a girl standing at the threshold of adulthood, learning the depths of the human heart and the bonds of family that bend, break, and bind together over and over again.This special enhanced audiobook contains bonus music by Cindy written exclusively for this audiobook, a podcast interview, and more!

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Title: At Last Count

Author: Claire Ross Dunn

Narrator: Meagan Macpherson, Rebecca Auerbach

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Release date: April 15, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022 AS FEATURED IN TORONTO STAR, ZOOMER MAGAZINE, AND ON CBC'S ONTARIO MORNING AND GLOBAL TV For readers who love Mark Haddon, Miriam Toews, and Sally Rooney Paisley Ratchford is trying to keep it together, but in eight weeks, the Toronto apartment building she lives in will be demolished. A last-ditch effort to reclaim her abandoned childhood home on Amherst Island plunges Paisley into memories of growing up in the tight-knit community, and into the obsessive compulsive disorder that has only ever offered a semblance of control. Her compulsion to count in sets of eight had little effect on thwarting bullies, her father’s bad luck, and her mother’s mental illness—all of which return to haunt her. When help arrives in the form of Paisley’s old classmate and tormentor Garnet Mulligan, her predicament only worsens. For a shot at a future, Paisley needs to stare down her past, including all the habits that have stopped her from thriving. At Last Count is a wise and often laugh-out-loud funny tale that proves we don’t always need to believe everything our brain tells us.