Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age

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Title: [Spanish] - La coleccionista de huérfanos: Una historia de sobrevivencia durante la pandemia de 1918 (A Heroic Novel of Survival During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic)

Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman

Narrator: Adriana Sananes

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 22 minutes

Release date: March 9, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Ellen Marie Wiseman, aclamada autora de Lo que dejó atrás y La vida que le dieron, teje lahistorias de dos mujeres muy diferentes en una novela que pasa la página tan llena de suspenso como conmovedora, ambientada en medio de unalas pandemias más mortíferas de la historia.En el otoño de 1918, la inmigrante alemana de trece años Pia Lange anhela estar lejos del hacinamiento de Filadelfia.calles y barrios marginales, y del sentimiento anti-alemán que obligó a su padre a alistarse en el ejército de los Estados Unidos, esperandopara demostrar su lealtad. Pero ha llegado una amenaza aún más urgente. La influenza española se está extendiendo por la ciudad. Pronto,muertos y moribundos están por todas partes. Sin comida en casa, Pia debe aventurarse en busca de suministros, dejando a su bebéhermanos gemelos solos ...Desde que murió su bebé hace días, Bernice Groves se ha perdido en el dolor y la amargura. Si los doctores no hubieran estado tan ocupadosatendiendo a hordas de inmigrantes, tal vez podrían haber salvado a su hijo. Cuando Bernice ve a Pia salir de su casaal otro lado del camino, se ve impulsada por una decisión impactante que le cambia la vida y que la lleva a una misión siniestra: transformar elhuérfanos y niños inmigrantes de la ciudad en lo que ella siente que son 'verdaderos estadounidenses'.Mientras Pia navega por los sombríos vecindarios de la ciudad, no puede saber que sus hermanos no estarán en casa cuando elladevoluciones. Y será un viaje largo y arduo para saber qué sucedió, incluso cuando Bernice planea mantener la verdadoculto a toda costa. Solo con perseverancia y el coraje para enfrentar su propia vergüenza y miedo, Pia pondrá las piezasjuntos y encontrar la fuerza para arriesgarlo todo para que por fin se haga justicia.

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Title: Her Here

Author: Amanda Dennis

Narrator: Julia Atwood, Amanda Dennis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Release date: March 9, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

“Dennis is in possession of hypnotic narrative gifts and a ferocious intellect. With Her Here, she has claimed her place in the literary world.” ―Rebecca Makkai, author of Music for Wartime and The Great Believers “In Her Here, Dennis has written a metaphysical investigation that is also a wonderfully personal account of a daughter coming to terms with the loss of her mother, and a mother coming to terms with the loss of her daughter. As Elena conjures Ella’s last days, the richly imagined narrative moves back and forth between Paris and Thailand, carrying both characters and readers to a vivid and suspenseful conclusion.” ―Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy and The Boy in the Field Elena, struggling with memory loss due to a trauma that has unmoored her sense of self, deserts graduate school and a long-term relationship to accept a bizarre proposition from an estranged family friend in Paris: she will search for a young woman, Ella, who went missing six years earlier in Thailand, by rewriting her journals. As she delves deeper into Ella’s story, Elena begins to lose sight of her own identity and drift dangerously toward self-annihilation. Her Here is an existential detective story with a shocking denouement that plumbs the creative and destructive powers of narrative itself.

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Title: [German] - Hinter dem Mond

Author: Wäis Kiani

Narrator: Floriane Kleinpass

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Release date: March 4, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

'Ich weiß nicht, wen ich am meisten hassen soll - meine Mutter, meinen Vater oder Chomeini, der uns den ganzen Scheiß eingebrockt hat. Oder den Schah, weil er sich einfach verpisst hat.' Lilly ist neun, als ihre Eltern beschließen, das kleine ostfriesische Dorf, in dem sie geboren wurde, zu verlassen und dorthin zurückzukehren, wo sie herkommen: Teheran, Iran. Jetzt muss sich Lilly in dem fremden Land, das ihre Eltern Heimat nennen, durchschlagen. In Teheran versteht Lilly die Welt nicht mehr: Nicht die prächtigen Villen mit Kristalllüstern, nicht die zahlreiche persische Verwandtschaft, die das ihr unverständliche Farsi spricht, nicht die Eltern, die sie plötzlich nicht mehr Fahrrad fahren lassen. Aber Lilly passt sich nicht an, ihr bleibt ihr Eigensinn und die Wut, von den Eltern in eine fremde Welt verschleppt worden zu sein. Dann verlässt eines Tages der Schah das Land, Bomben fallen auf Teheran und Chomeinis Sittenwächter dringen auch in die abgeschlossene Welt der persischen Oberschicht ein. Was Lilly bleibt, ist die Sehnsucht nach Deutschland, nach Abendbrot, Fahrradfahrten und Apfelbäumen. Wäis Kiani beschreibt humorvoll, schonungslos ehrlich und sehr bewegend eine Jugend in Teheran und die unüberwindbare Kluft zwischen zwei vollkommen gegensätzlichen Kulturen.-

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Title: [German] - Die Nacht aus Blei

Author: Hans Henny Jahnn

Narrator: Alexander Khuon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Release date: March 4, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Der junge Matthieu ist unterwegs durch eine unwirtliche nächtliche Stadt. Seine traumgleiche Wanderung wird für ihn zur psychologischen Selbsterfahrung. Hans Henny Jahnns knapper und andeutungsreicher Stil ist so modern wie eh und je, die Zerrissenheit seiner Figuren unverändert aktuell. Jahnns letzter und kürzester Prosatext, ursprünglich als Fragment einer größeren Erzählung geplant, vereint alle großen Themen seiner Dichtung: Dämonen, Jugend, Schicksal, Liebe und Tod.-

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Title: [Spanish] - Los mejores años

Author: Kiley Reid

Narrator: Juanita Delgado Jaramillo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Release date: March 4, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Descubre el fenómeno internacional que marca el nacimiento de una nueva estrella literaria. «Puede que el primer capítulo de Los mejores años sea el mejor comienzo que leerás en meses.» Sunday Times Style NOMINADA AL PREMIO MAN BOOKER GANADORA EN LOS PREMIOS GOODREADS CHOICE COMO LA MEJOR NOVELA DEBUT DE 2020 ¿Qué sucede cuando haces lo correcto por el motivo equivocado? Emira Tucker tiene veinticinco años, está sin un duro y no tiene ni idea de qué hacer con su vida. Cuando una noche la detienen en la tienda del barrio acomodado de la familia para la que hace de canguro, acusándola de haber secuestrado a la pequeña Briar, no le cabe duda de que el motivo es el color de su piel. Aunque quiere pasar página lo antes posible, las buenas intenciones de su jefa, Alix, que está dispuesta a lo que sea con tal de ayudarla, no van a permitírselo. Alix Chamberlain siempre consigue lo que se propone y su trabajo consiste en enseñar a otras mujeres a hacer lo mismo. No es consciente del privilegio que le otorgan tanto su dinero como el ser blanca y la vida de Emira es lo más interesante que le ha pasado en los últimos meses. Cuando ambas mujeres descubren que tienen mucho más en común de lo que creían, su forma de ver el mundo que las rodea, e incluso a sí mismas, da un vuelco que pone sus vidas patas arriba. «Imprescindible. El debut del año.» The Guardian La crítica ha dicho... «Los mejores años [es] una narración ágil, desde diferentes puntos de vista, que pisa muchos charcos con humor e inteligencia.» Mujerhoy «El debut de Kiley Reid no está dejando títere con cabeza.» Glamour «Devorarás estas páginas como si fueran tu comida favorita, pero nada te librará de su acidez.» Vogue «Inteligente, convincente y hermosamente escrita.» Daily Mail «Una primera novela memorable e impresionante.» Publishers Weekly «Los mejores años se revuelve contra el racismo y rinde tributo a auténticos titanes de la literatura.» Vanity Fair «Kiley Reid nos ofrece, incansable, una hoja de ruta de esos momentos en los que nuestras mejores intenciones fallan.» The New Yorker «Divertida, incómoda y de compulsiva lectura.» TIME «A todos los grandes escritores se les da bien escuchar, y Los mejores años es el debut de una escritora con un don extraordinario.» Slate «Incisiva, con buen ritmo y un giro argumental irresistible.» Elle «Entreteje con maestría observaciones raciales con reflexiones acerca de la amistad, la maternidad, el matrimonio, el amor y más; dejando claro que somos mucho más que nuestra piel.» The Guardian «La novela más adictiva y provocadora del año.» Entertainment Weekly «Encantadora, desafiante y tan interesante que no podrás soltarla.» Kirkus Reviews «Kiley Reid le da la vuelta a lo que creíamos que era escribir sobre racismo y clases..., por no decir a lo que significa escribir sobre amor.» Washington Post «Lapregunta que plagará a los lectores durante días tras terminar el libro será: ¿Cuál es mi papel en todo esto?» Marie Claire

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Title: Dubliners

Author: James Joyce

Narrator: Mary Jane Wells

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Release date: March 2, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The stories comprise a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination, and the idea of paralysis where Joyce felt Irish nationalism stagnated cultural progression, placing Dublin at the heart of this regressive movement. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

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Title: Jesus’ Silent Years, Journey

Author: Vance Shepperson

Narrator: Vance Shepperson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Release date: February 16, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Some studies report that the average person experiences about 60,000 thoughts a day and eighty percent of them are negative in nature. Journey’s fictional stories, embedded in Jewish and Roman history, are intended to help flip your script inside a new angle on an old story. Listen with a fresh ear to Father’s voice through the Spirit’s power coming from Jesus’ mouth. The classic hero’s journey is shaped like a checkmark—medium to low and high at the end. Stories in this third volume of four in Jesus’ Silent Years are at the bottom of the checkmark. These low points are the furnace that shaped his character more than any of the other books in this novel series. Spoiler alert—Jesus is imprisoned, abused by willful excess and absence, and depressed. This Son of Man is tempted and tried in all points as we are. Embedded in these old stories is a training manual for how to live wisely in today’s world regardless of your faith, or lack of it.

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Title: Raji, Book Two

Author: Charley Brindley

Narrator: Kim Somers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Release date: February 3, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Raji is accepted to the prestigious Octavia Pompeii Academy. She and Elizabeth Keesler are the only girls in the student body of one hundred cadets.Raji is accepted to the prestigious Octavia Pompeii Academy. She and Elizabeth Keesler are the only girls in the student body of one hundred cadets. They must endure the derision and taunts from ninety-eight boys who would like nothing better than to see the girlsout of school. In addition to the contempt of the male students and the high academic standards set by the instructors, they must also conform to the strict disciplinary code enforced by the indomitable Elvira Gulch, Director of Development. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

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Title: The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things: Stories

Author: Jt Leroy

Narrator: Christelle de Castro, Jeff Feuerzeig, Alissa Bennett, Laila Hayani, Shirley Manson, Pamela Sneed, Lawrence Rothman, Laura Albert, Darnell Martin, Joshua Caleb Johnson, Libby Mintz, Julie Mintz, Kerris Dorsey, Laura Desiree, Donovan Leitch, Winsome Brown,

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Release date: February 2, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The classic JT LeRoy story collection is now available in audio for the first time ever, featuring eleven previously uncollected stories, including one never before published, and an all-star line-up of twenty-one narrators. “Beautifully structured and written.”—Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn This book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run with his teenage mother. When Sarah reclaims Jeremiah from his foster parents, he finds himself catapulted into her world of motels and truck stops, exposed to the abusive, exploitative men she encounters. As he learns to survive in this harrowing environment, Jeremiah also learns to love his mother, even as she descends into drug-fueled madness. Told in spare, lyrical prose, rich with imagination and dark humor, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things transforms the savagery of Jeremiah’s world into an indelible experience of compassion. Foreword written and read by Jeff Feuerzeig Narrators include: Laura Albert, Shirley Manson, Joshua Caleb Johnson, SOKO, Michael Imperioli, Winsome Brown, Pamela Sneed, Robin Weigert, Lawrence Rothman, Kerris Dorsey, Julie Mintz, Paul Mendez, Donovan Leitch, Daniel Newman, Darnell Martin, Alissa Bennett, Libby Mintz, Laura Desiree, Christelle de Castro, and Laila Hayani.

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Title: Ourimbah Road

Author: K T Macdonald

Narrator: K T Macdonald

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Release date: February 2, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Sonny has lived his life perpetuated by a lie. His life on the streets of Melbourne, haunted by guilt from a life suppressed in a haze of addiction and mental illness. Provoked by an unexpected encounter with his wealthy sibling, Amelia, curiosity finds Sonny facing his frugal subsistence. Allured by the comfort of materialism and safety, he finds himself immersed in his past. The truth he has evaded, forces him to question every belief that has kept him on the peripheral of unity with his family. Charlie, buoyant in her work as a flight attendant, is never in any place long enough to commit to any relationships; transience has enabled her to avoid the darkness plaguing her memory. Disillusion, guilt and heartache are her companions. Will distance keep her safe from the truth that threatens to unravel the web woven to protect her? Unleashed in his truth, will rage placate Sonny’s psychosis? Can they ever be reconciled, or will Sonny’s actions implicate more suffering? Ourimbah Road explores the complex relationships of families; the devastation of secrets, lies, abandonment, the inability to help those we love the most, and the most basic human need—connection.