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Carrie: An American Classic by David Culp

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Carrie Larsen left a small town in Ohio a week after graduating college in 1963 to explore the counterculture in the Great American West. Four years later, tired, she came back to her parents’ house. Perhaps for a week? Perhaps for years? Carrie became the town Veterinarian on Main Street. She balances her enthusiasm for sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll with a search for social justice, compassion, and a love for playing J.S. Bach on her mother’s concert grand piano. Carrie loves her parents, … [Read more...] about Carrie: An American Classic by David Culp

Filed Under: Bargain Books Under $3, Features, Historical, Kindle Unlimited eBooks Tagged With: Coming of Age, counterculture, David Culp, Grateful Dead, growing up, liberated women, literary fiction, sex drugs and rock and roll, small town life, social justice

Interview with Author – Terence Victor Barnes

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About Terence Victor Barnes: I really enjoyed my childhood, even school! I was given so much freedom to do as I wanted. I was never a child that liked to be stuck indoors, that's probably why I didn't do well academically. I would always be outside, playing football and tennis on local parks, fishing and unlike the normal cliché/fashionable thing to say, I wasn't rubbish at all sports, I was good!!! I was, and to some degree still am, a shy person. This introvert persona changed … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Terence Victor Barnes

Filed Under: Interviews With Authors Tagged With: autobiography, education, growing up, humorous, military

Lockers Speak: Voices from America’s Youth by Brenda Mahler by Brenda Mahler

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Lockers Speak occurs as the students exit the school to begin summer break. They leave behind the lockers who personify their thoughts and emotions. As an administrator walks the empty halls, she reflects on the events of the school year. The voices whispering, sometimes screaming from the lockers share stories of friendship, academic struggles, death, abuse, celebrations, and basic human experiences. This book is a compilation of students’ thoughts. The words presented through verse … [Read more...] about Lockers Speak: Voices from America’s Youth by Brenda Mahler by Brenda Mahler

Filed Under: Children and Young Adult Books Tagged With: #Poetry, Brenda Mahler, Coming of Age, Family, friendship, growing up, identity, Society, Young Adult Literature

The Last Days of Childhood by Ken Ross

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The Last Days of Childhood by Ken Ross Lucy has a poor self-opinion. She sees herself as overweight, unloved and confused about the future and her sexuality. She is self-harming, worrying over forthcoming exams and not on good terms with her parents. What's more, the coronavirus is sweeping across England and the country is on the verge of lockdown. She'll lose contact with her friends and be unable to develop a relationship with Kell, a boy in her school year, or with her beautiful best … [Read more...] about The Last Days of Childhood by Ken Ross

Filed Under: Bargain Books Under $3, Buyer's Guides, Heat Level 3 - PG-13, Kindle Unlimited eBooks, Print Books, Romance Tagged With: growing up, Ken Ross, lesbian, Love, New Adult, self-harm, sexual identity, Struggle, teenage years, young adult

Interview with Author – Margaret Egrot

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About Margaret Egrot: I live in the UK, with my husband and a boisterous cairn terrier. My son is married and lives in Thailand. I write novels, short stories and plays. Some draw on my work with offenders, victims and vulnerable children and families; some are pure escapism. I enjoy walking, playing football with the dog (he's very good despite his size) and swimming. I also go to the theatre and help out a a local community theatre. What inspires you to write? Sometimes I write because I … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Margaret Egrot

Filed Under: Interviews With Authors Tagged With: adventure, Contemporary, eBook, growing up, print, young adult

How To Be A Man: The Dynamics of Manhood by Alec Sommers

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Upon reading this book, the youth of the world will gain the knowledge needed to come forward upon the stage of life, as models of excellence, with character properly formed to face any encounter in life, as a well respected Men. My hope is to pass on the knowledge needed to anyone who may be in need of moral guidance so that they may make real contributions to the good of mankind; to be the pillars of society and become our future leaders, legislators, governors, judges, ministers, police … [Read more...] about How To Be A Man: The Dynamics of Manhood by Alec Sommers

Filed Under: Personal Growth Tagged With: growing up, Self Esteem

Interview with Author – J Richard Knapp

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About J Richard Knapp: J Richard Knapp is an internationally recognized American author and speaker from the Pacific Northwest. His education includes degrees from the University of Oregon and Boise State university. Knapp is internationally recognized as a leader in education, bully prevention, and an author of many tween and young adult fiction books. J Richard Knapp is the Founder and CEO of Stop-Bullies.com, Magpye Publishing, and KnappStory.com. What inspires you to write? As a child, … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – J Richard Knapp

Filed Under: Interviews With Authors Tagged With: action, adventure, Bullying, friendship, girls, growing up, J Richard Knapp, mystery, School Life

True Blue Forever by Joyce Scarbrough

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"Someday, she'll be my girl." At the fifth grade honors program, three eleven-year-old boys are captivated by a brilliant little red-haired girl named Jeana Russell as she recites the poem she wrote. They know this girl is special, and each boy secretly vows to win her heart. As these four unconventional teenagers grow up together on the Alabama Gulf Coast in the late 1970s, they are bound to each other by relationships as volatile as they are complex. Which boy will end up breaking Jeana's … [Read more...] about True Blue Forever by Joyce Scarbrough

Filed Under: Children and Young Adult Books Tagged With: baseball, Coming of Age, first loves, Football, growing up, High School, Joyce Scarbrough, southern fiction, teens

I’m Trying Here: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Misadventure by Taylor Church @taylorchurch44

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This book is bargain priced from 05/16/2034 until 08/25/2034 This is a memoir about being in your twenties, and all the foibles, misadventures, and heartbreak that accompany those years. Looking back on a time period that is hauntingly near to him, Taylor delves into relationships he's had that have left him bruised, broken and oft times calloused and caustic, whilst exploring the trials of being broke, rudderless and confused with adulthood. Everyone has seen or read a love story; this is … [Read more...] about I’m Trying Here: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Misadventure by Taylor Church @taylorchurch44

Filed Under: Bargain Books Under $3, Relationships Tagged With: Adulthood, Boyfriend, dating, Depression, Girlfriend, growing up, Love, non-fiction, pain, relationships, Taylor Church

Experience Life in Poetry: Random Life Observations, Parenthood and Growing-up by Shannon Sonneveldt

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This is volume one in the Experience Life in Poetry series, a series that reflects observations and emotions at any given moment in life from childhood to present time. Think of moments that stood out in time for you. Moments that made you laugh, made you cry, made you think or made you sigh. Hopefully, you will experience these same emotions through the poems in the book whether it’s wonder, laughter, understanding or something all together different. I hope it makes you think or makes you … [Read more...] about Experience Life in Poetry: Random Life Observations, Parenthood and Growing-up by Shannon Sonneveldt

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: children, emotions, feelings, growing up, kids, life, poems, poetry

The Journey by Bruce A. Borders

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When a teenage boy, who thinks he knows it all, leaves home in search of a better life, he finds out the hard way what everyone must learn – growing up isn’t an easy thing to do. Leaving home at fifteen, Kyle Davis’ path to adulthood takes him on an eventful ride, and at times a dangerous one. His firsthand experiences with the cruel realities of a callous world drive home the point that he has a lot to learn and a long ways to go. Unwilling to admit his mistakes, he flounders a while before … [Read more...] about The Journey by Bruce A. Borders

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: growing up, life

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