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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A coming-of-age campus novel about a group of students who take revenge on a professor after she destroys one of their own" --
Hannah, Leslie and Jimmy, graduate students at Fielding campus, are mysterious, inaccessible, and brilliant. The threesome came to study writing, to be writers, and this is the story they've woven together: of friendship and passion, of competition and envy, of creativity as life and death. Simone, a young, bestselling author...
122) Tell tale: stories
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs...
124) True story
Author
Series
Ni-Ni girl chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Dafina KTeen Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old college student Seven McKnight, having moved on from her ex-boyfriend Josiah Whitaker, is surprised when he comes back into her life and makes her start to question if she wants to be with him or her new boyfriend, Zaire St. James.
Author
Series
Off the map novels volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Lia Riley's Off the Map series comes to a stunning conclusion. Lia Riley made New Adult readers fall in love with her breakout debut, Upside Down. Sideswiped, the second of her series, made readers clamor for more. Now, with INSIDE OUT, Lia Riley brings her evocative Off the Map series to a stunning conclusion. When Talia first moved from California to Australia to study abroad, she never dreamed she'd find the love of her life. Bran understands...
126) The adult
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Natalie, a college freshman from a remote small town, is drawn into an all-consuming affair with an older woman"--
127) Educated: a memoir
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
128) Night shift
Author
Publisher
W by Wattpad
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
College student Kendall Holiday, who spends her Fridays working the graveyard shift in the library, loses herself in the pages of her favorite love stories until the school's star basketball player turns up, giving her a chance at real-life romance.
129) Before
Author
Series
After novels (Anna Todd) volume 5
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Recounts Hardin's first encounters with Tessa and their ensuing love affair that became a vortex pulling in everyone around them.
130) The Bad sister
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The site of the old campus bungalow where two girls were brutally slain is now a flower patch covered with chrysanthemums. It's been fifty years since the Immaculate Conception Murders. Three more students and a teacher were killed in a sickening spree that many have forgotten. But there is one person who knows every twisted detail... Hannah O'Rourke and her volatile half-sister, Eden, have little in common except a parent. Yet they've ended up at...
131) The last affair
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Nora Holliday is not that kind of woman. Not the kind who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora's alcoholic husband isn't. And now she and Josh are so infatuated, they can't stay away from one another. Abby Landon, Josh's daughter, is home from college nursing a broken heart. She's seeking solace, not more scandal, so when she catches her dad kissing Nora, she vows to take the homewrecker down. And as for Abby's...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eight friends created the exclusive Masquerade Murder Society while in college. The murders they solved were fictional—until their final masquerade, when one of the group disappeared. Twelve years later, the remaining members are invited to a reunion in the Scottish Highlands . . . Twelve years ago, eight friends ran an exclusive group at university: The Masquerade Murder Society. The mysteries they solved may have been grisly, and brilliantly...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Lizet-the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school-secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she's set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Leidy-Lizet's older sister, a brand-new single mom-without a steady income and scrambling for a...
136) Upsy Daisy
Author
Series
Higher learning volume 1
Publisher
Smartypants Romance
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Daisy Payton has everything. But perfection comes at a high cost, and Daisy is wilting. Determined to use college as her chance to bloom anew, she's focused on only one thing-leaving the Payton name behind and forging her own path . . . even if she has to tell the teeniest of fibs to do it. Trevor Boone has nothing. Trevor has lived at the edges of opulence for years, having all he's ever desired dangled just out of reach. But his ambition is finally...
Author
Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"American grad student Lucy Silver arrives in England hoping to solve a longstanding literary mystery, write her dissertation, and finish her graduate studies in a blaze of academic glory. But as Lucy starts to piece together the correspondence between her late grandmother and Elizabeth Blackspear, the famous poet and garden writer who's the subject of Lucy's dissertation, she discovers puzzling coded references in the letters--and when an elderly...
140) Savage theories
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize--against his wishes. Meanwhile, a young couple--a documentary filmmaker and a blogger--engage in a series of cerebral and sexual misadventures. In a novel crammed with philosophy, group sex, revolutionary politics, and a fighting...
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