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Title: Invisible Life: A Novel

Series: #1 of Invisible Life Trilogy

Author: E. Lynn Harris

Narrator: Mirron Willis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Release date: August 11, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.85 of Total 13

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The remarkable first novel by a young, gay, black author who fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming-of-age story out of the controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS Law school, girlfriends, and career choices were all part of Raymond Tyler's life, but there were other, more terrifying issues for him to confront. Being black was tough enough, but Raymond was becoming more and more conscious of sexual feelings that he knew weren't 'right.' He was completely committed to Sela, his longtime girlfriend, but his attraction to Kelvin, whom he had met during his last year in law school, had become more than just a friendship.  Fleeing to New York to escape both Sela and Kelvin, Raymond finds himself more confused than ever before. New relationships--both male and female--give him enormous pleasure but keep him from finding the inner peace and lasting love he so desperately desires. The horrible illness and death of a friend eventually force Raymond, at last, to face the truth.  Invisible Life has been hailed as 'one of the most thought-provoking books--since James Baldwin's Another Country' (Richmond Voice), and Harris's 'stories have become the toast of bookstores, reading groups, men, women, and gay and straight people' (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

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Title: Labor Day

Author: Joyce Maynard

Narrator: Wilson Bethel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Release date: July 28, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 10

Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

“Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Keeping Faith “Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks.” —St. Petersburg Times Joyce Maynard, acclaimed author of At Home in the World, is back with Labor Day. The  unforgettable story of a mother and son forever changed during a long summer weekend when a mysterious man comes into their lives. Labor Day is “a sexy, page turning, poignant story” (Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World) that “affirms Maynard’s reputation as a master storyteller and shows her to be a passionate humanist with a gifted ear and heart” (People)

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Title: Though None Go with Me: A Novel

Author: Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrator: Ssandy Burr

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Release date: July 13, 2009

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

One woman’s costly decision will touch a lifetime of hearts.Born at the turn of the century, Elisabeth Grace LeRoy longs for something more in her life. Something only an eternal love can offer. It is a love she encounters at last—one that promises to fill her passionate heart completely and that calls forth her utmost in return. In response, Elisabeth makes the commitment that will shape her entire life: a decision to follow Christ always, no matter the cost. So begins a remarkable love story—a legacy of faith that weaves together two world wars, the Great Depression, and deep personal sorrows as the dramatic background for displaying the courage, grace, joy, and far-reaching impact of a life lived truly and fully for God.

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Title: Rooftops of Tehran

Author: Mahbod Seraji

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

With Rooftops of Tehran, Mahbod Seraji delivers a debut novel that has won immediate acclaim for its affecting portrait of life in Iran's capital city. A 17-year-old boy finds his rooftop the perfect escape for taking in the night sky, smoking cigarettes and catching occasional glimpses of his beautiful neighbor. But when his lofty perch allows him to witness the brutality of the regime under which he lives, everything changes for the boy and those close to him.

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Title: Daisy Chain: A Novel

Series: #1 of Defiance Texas Trilogy

Author: Mary E Demuth

Narrator: Renee Raudman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Release date: March 10, 2009

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The abrupt disappearance of young Daisy Chance from a small Texas town in 1973 spins three lives out of control—Jed, whose guilt over not protecting his friend Daisy strangles him; Emory Chance, who blames her own choices for her daughter’s demise; and Ouisie Pepper, who is haunted by dreams of Daisy while pierced by the shattered pieces of a family in crisis.In this first book in the Defiance, Texas Trilogy, fourteen-year-old Jed Pepper has a sickening secret: He’s convinced it’s his fault his best friend Daisy went missing. Jed’s pain sends him on a quest for answers to mysteries woven through the fabric of his own life and the lives of the families of Defiance, Texas. When he finally confronts the terrible truths he’s been denying all his life, Jed must choose between rebellion and love, anger and freedom. Daisy Chain is an achingly beautiful southern coming-of-age story crafted by a bright new literary talent. It offers a haunting yet hopeful backdrop for human depravity and beauty, for terrible secrets and God’s surprising redemption.

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Title: The Homeplace

Series: #1 of Singing River Series

Author: Gilbert Morris

Narrator: Judith West

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Release date: March 10, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Lanie took out her journal and dated it April 12, 1928. She started the habit of writing down everything that happened to her when she was no more than eight years old, and now she had six journals completely full. She thought about the prize at school, almost prayed to win, but somehow she could not. “God,” she finally said, “I’ll do my best, and if you’ll help me, that’s all I ask.”Fourteen-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has high hopes for her future. Happy on the five-acre family homeplace, she dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. And with her father launching a new business and her mother expecting the fifth baby, the bright days of an early Southern spring seem to herald expansive new beginnings for the Freeman family.But her mother isn’t as strong as she should be, and it’s going to take time for the business to pay back the mortgage. When unexpected tragedy strikes, it is left to Lanie to keep the family together and hold on to their home. In a world shaken by the Great Depression, it is faith in God and love in a tightly knit family that will help Lanie and her siblings overcome the odds and create a future that promises the fulfillment of love.The Homeplace offers a warmhearted and inspiring saga of a courageous young woman who holds her family together through the Depression era.

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Title: Somebody Else's Daughter

Author: Elizabeth Brundage

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne, Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 0 minutes

Release date: July 3, 2008

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A taut, complex psychological thriller from the author of The Doctor's Wife Like The Doctor's Wife - which The Boston Globe called 'a compelling read'-Somebody Else's Daughter is a literary page-turner peopled with fascinating and disturbing characters. In the idyllic Berkshires, at the prestigious Pioneer School, there are dark secrets that threaten to come to light. Willa Golding, a student, has been brought up by her adoptive parents in elegant prosperity, but they have fled a mysterious and shameful past. Her biological father, a failing writer and former drug addict, needs to see the daughter he abandoned, and so he gains a teaching position at the school. A feminist sculptor initiates a reckless affair, the Pioneer students live in a world to which adults turn a blind eye, and the headmaster's wife is busy keeping her husband's current indiscretions well hidden. Building to a breathtaking collision between two fathers-biological and adoptive, past and present- Somebody Else's Daughter is both a suspenseful thriller and a probing study of richly conflicted characters in emotional turmoil.

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Title: Made in the U.S.A.

Author: Billie Letts

Narrator: Cassandra Morris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 0 minutes

Release date: June 19, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The bestselling author of Where the Heart Is returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home. Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind. Made in the U.S.A. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.

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Title: Nicholas Nickleby

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 31 hours 21 minutes

Release date: February 4, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 11

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens’ novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman’s son fallen upon hard times, must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable eccentrics in Dickens’ pantheon. From the dungeon-like Yorkshire boys’ boarding school run by the cruel Wackford Squeers to the high-spirited stage of Vincent Crummles’ extraordinary acting troupe, Nicholas Nickleby is a triumph of the imagination, bursting with color, humor, and poignant social commentary.

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Title: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Author: Junot Díaz

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 0 minutes

Release date: September 6, 2007

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.76 of Total 45

Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.