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English
Description
In the tradition of Sixties beach party and teen-movie nonsense, Rock 'n' Roll High School is the story of Vince Lombardi High, whose fun-loving students at are sorely oppressed by their new authoritarian principal. There is also making out, hall monitors, exploding white mice, a shy, bookish lovesick girl who only wants to be noticed by the studly BMOC, and a spirited bad girl carrying a torch for the pizza-gobbling singer of a rock band. In the...
9243) Edge of seventeen
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the summer of 1984 in Sandusky, Ohio, teenager Eric Hunter is terrified and exhilarated by his sexual attraction to Rod, a college student and co-worker at a local fast food joint. But Eric's sexual awakening is complicated by his new romance with his best friend Maggie.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"'Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents' (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens--Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name...
9245) Calla Cthulhu
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Calla Tafalli finds herself battling supernatural monsters, human assassins, and her uncle, The King in Yellow, while resisting his call to embrace her own chaotic heritage and join the family business"--
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He'₂s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, living with his mother, spending his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys, and secretly hooking up with his girlfriend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his...
9247) Coming of age stories
Publisher
[Binge Box]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Boyhood: A groundbreaking story of growing up, as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen.
The Edge of Seventeen: High school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend Krista starts dating her older brother.
Lady Bird: The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.
Paper Towns: Adapted from the bestselling novel by author John Green, a coming-of-age...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Andy's gone and done it this time. All set to graduate from high school and he flunks his English exam, in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.
Author
Series
Stephen McCranie's Space Boy volume 5
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A sci-fi drama of a high school aged girl who belongs in a different time, a boy possessed by emptiness as deep as space, an alien artifact, mysterious murder, and a love that crosses light years.To Amy, everyone has a flavor, and when that flavor begins to disappear, it spells trouble.After the crushing confrontation with Oliver, Amy is on the hunt for answers. This leads her to an old, moldy water containment facility, and leaves her with more...
9251) As I open my eyes
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Arabic
Description
Farah, eighteen years old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor. She doesn't think the same way. She sings in a political rock band. She has a passion for life, gets drunk, discovers love and her city by night against the will of her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers too well.
9252) 3/4
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Bulgarian
Description
Mila is a gifted pianist with a bright future, yet her father pays more attention to the rings of Saturn than to her goals, and her brother tries to distract her with his unwanted talent for the absurd. A portrait of a family, struggling to find meaning during their last summer together.
9253) Indignation
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Passion ignites culte clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torrid encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and his own beliefs to the ultimate test.
9254) Hello, my name is Frank
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A cross-generational coming-of-age story of three teenage girls and a socially awkward man with Tourette's disorder who bond over a cross-country road trip. Along the way, they each learn to stop using his illness as an excuse to hide from life, and that love and family can be found in unexpected places.
9255) Akron
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A sensitive and unique film that puts a progressive, Midwestern spin on a classic family drama. Benny and Christopher, college freshmen, meet playing football and begin a relationship. They fall in love supported by their family and friends. As their love for each other grows, a past tragic event involving their mothers comes to light. This revelation tests their own love and Benny's close-knit family.
9256) Anywhere but here
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Adele is a flashy, flirtatious dreamer. Her daughter Ann is a quiet, no-nonsense realist. On the surface, they're like oil and water, but deep down, they are two of a kind."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A funny graphic memoir that takes us through the early diaries of Merrill Markoe (the original head writer for the The David Letterman Show) and captures the difficulties of growing up and, ultimately, finding out that a smart mouth is a perfectly fine thing to have."--
9259) Stuck rubber baby
Author
Language
English
Description
As a young gay man leading a closeted life in the 1960s American South, Toland Polk tries his best to keep a low profile. He's aware of the raqcial injustice all around him - the segregationist politicians, the corrupt cops, the violent Klan members - but he feels powerless to make a difference. That all changes when he crosses paths with an impassioned coed named Ginger Raines. Ginger introduces him to a lively and diverse group of civil rights activists,...
9260) Stop-Zemlia
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Language
Ukrainian
Formats
Description
Hanging out with friends, smoking too much, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. Introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she₂s hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia, who share her non-conformist status. While trying to navigate through her last year of school,...
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