In a thought-provoking coming-of-age novel, Charlie struggles to cope with complex world of high school as he deals with the confusions of sex and love, the temptations of drugs, and the pain of losing a close friend and a favorite aunt.

A young woman looks back at her childhood in a harsh orphanage and describes her growing love for the man who employs her as governess.

Charlotte Tucker moves to Oklahoma to take a teaching job, only to find that her new friends, brother and sister Owen and Hannah Wallace, are intent on getting revenge on the father they never knew--a man they believe to be the ranch owner who is renting Charlotte a room.

The predicted Rapture was faked by Pastor Frick's Church of America and the 3,000 Believers are now missing or dead. 17-year-old Vivian Apple and her best friend, Harpreet, are revolutionaries, determined to expose the Church's diabolical power grab and to locate Viv's missing heartthrob, Peter Ivey.

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature—and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books.

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and...

Her world upended by the death of a beloved artist uncle who was the only person who understood her, 14-year-old June is mailed a teapot by her uncle's grieving friend, with whom June forges a poignant relationship.

A prequel to the Lucky Santangelo series features a headstrong teenaged Lucky, who after the murder of her mother escapes her notorious father's protective stranglehold to pursue a life of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll.

A man who ran away as a teen university student with a married woman more than twice his age reflects on how they fell in love, how he freed her from a sterile marriage and how their relationship fell apart as she succumbed to depression.

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

A devastatingly powerful debut novel of hero-worship, first love, and betrayal.