Lonn Friend
From Guns N' Roses to Nirvana, a Backstage Journey through Rock's Most Debauched Decade For the generation coming of age in the years from 1987 to 1994, RIP magazine was every bit as crucial as Rolling Stone. Life on Planet Rock describes how ... [... more]
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Patric Kuh
Patric Kuh is the author of The Last Days of Haute Cuisine: The Coming of Age of American Restaurants, which won the 2002 James Beard Award for writing on food. He is the restaurant critic for Los Angeles Magazine, and he lives in Los Angeles. [... more]
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Living Up The Street
In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, ... [... more]
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Joel Rooks
A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.' Bernie keeps a barn full of animals the rest of the world has no use for-two retired trotters, a rooster, some banty hens, and a Muscovy ... [... more]
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Eddy Joe Cotton
With an arresting mix of homespun wisdom, gritty realism, and poignant self-examination, and set against the backdrop of a young man's coming of age, A free spirit, Zebu Recchia's mother set out on her own when her... is a modern examination of ... [... more]
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Nancy Thayer
From the bestselling author of Between Husbands and Friends and An Act of Love comes a wise, wonderful, and delightfully witty "coming of age" novel about four intrepid women who discover themselves as they were truly meant to be: passionate, .. [... more]
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Norman Wong
With rich images and subtle, beautiful prose, Cultural Revolution tells a classic story of immigrant family ties and coming of age in a unique new... "POWERFUL...STRIKING...In a series of sharp, spare stories, Norman Wong chronicles a family's ... [... more]
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Tom De Haven
Coming of age in rural 1930s America with X-ray vision, the power to stop bullets, and the ability to fly isn't exactly every boy's story. So just how did Clark Kent, a shy farmer's son, grow up to be the Man of Steel? Follow young Clark's ... [... more]
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James R. McDonough
A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.' A Memoir of Command in Combat "Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a ... [... more]
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Janice Boddy
This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; ... [... more]
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Piri Thomas
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned ... [... more]
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Marc Spitz
Taking us back to late '70s and early '80s Hollywood-pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan- Welcome to the big Reagan '80s, where ketchup is a vegetable and the Cold War looms large and chilly. If like Joe Green you were coming of age during this boom ... [... more]
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