Double Teenage tells the story of two young teenagers (best friends, Celine and Julie) who are coming of age in the 1990s along the US-Mexico border-a place where nothing seems to happen, but only because what counts as 'something' is defined by far-off centers of power. In their small, desert town and small-scale life, they become a twin pair. Through their love of theatre, they find their way into a wider world, rich with opportunity, but at the...

A 14-year-old country girl, Polly Milton, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is, overwhelmed by the splendor and their urbanized, fashionable lifestyles, expensive clothes and other habits she has never been exposed to. Fanny's friends reject her because of her different behavior and simple clothing, and Fan herself can't help considering her unusual sometimes. However, Polly's warmth, support...

First love it will change your life for ever…Daisy has been dragged along on a family holiday against her will. Still, the holiday has its compensations. Katrina, the resident 'cool' girl who takes Daisy under her wing, and her gorgeous, older cousin who sends smouldering looks in Daisy's direction.Is this holiday about to change her life for the better?The escape from London has affected Daisy's dad. He has madcap schemes in mind for how he's going...

We all look at people and think we know them, but it sure would help us truly understand them if we could go back and see their life at different points of times so we can see what they have been through: their joys, their struggles, what made them who they are. In Eighteen Years: Seth, you will be immersed into the life of a foster kid named Seth. The story is arranged so you, as a reader, can jump to different times of Seth's life so you can build...

Unemployed, broke and engaged in a telepathic turf war with a feral cat behind an Okinawa convenience store, 28-year-old Fred Buchanan is hopelessly lost in life. After a fortuitous bet on the island bullfights, he boards a ferry to Kobe then a slow train to Tokyo, chasing shadows of a halogen dream. Back in Tokyo, past and present collide as an empty orchestra croons a slow dance of people and place, memory and madness, loss and love. Charging...

Lisa Zuccerelli just wants to be normal. At the end of her senior year in high school, she has the distinction for the most detentions in the history of the school, thanks to an English teacher's betrayal. Seemingly left with no other choice after a distressing graduation ceremony, she packs two weeks' worth of rations, a canoe, and her broken heart and flees to the Canadian wilderness, where she hopes to piece her life back together and realize happiness....

"MURMULLOS DEL VIENTO" nace en la mente y el corazón de una niña de 11 años quien tuvo un sueño: darle vida a las palabras para describir la vorágine de emociones que se agitaban a su alrededor y que también, según se hacía mujer, comenzaba a experimentar el amor, el desamor, el llanto, la esperanza, la amistad, la felicidad, la agonía y la muerte. La certeza de que cada alma se enfrenta a estas vivencias durante su existencia ha sido la...

Ese has comfortably situated himself into the consistent ebbs and flows of his existence, seemingly schooling life and cracking the code to instant success. All of that changes when he moves schools, becoming a big fish in a vast and enveloping ocean. Dealing with questions of sexuality, identity, love, crushes and finding a concrete path on the lonely road. From talent shows to scheduling conflicts, debates and romance, Ese goes through revelatory...

Che Parker is the author of four novels and a collection of short stories. Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Che attended Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana, and later earned a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. Che also earned a Master's of Arts degree in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Che has worked more than 20 years in journalism, public relations and...

If the mood of The Coming of Fabrizze, Raymond DeCapite's first book, is joyous, that of his second, A Lost King, is somber. Each of DeCapite's novels is original in its own way, perhaps inspired by different moods.