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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Momo Gardner is the kind of friend who's always ready to lend a helping hand. She's introverted, sensitive, and maybe a little too trusting, but she likes to believe the best in people. PG, on the other hand, is a bit of a lone wolf, despite her reputation for being a flirt and a player. Underneath all that cool mystery, she's actually quick to smile, and when she falls for someone, she falls hard. An unexpected meet-cute brings the two together,...
2) 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.
3) Bad like us
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"While at a private beach lodge with her popular classmates when an anonymous letter leads to murder, Eva places her trust in Colton and together they uncover secrets that upend everything they thought they knew about their fellow spring breakers"--
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"England, 1959: to eight-year-old Felicity, the fairies in the woods have much more to offer than her everyday life on a dying farm. However, as she becomes rooted in Their world, she learns that all magic has a price. In recompense for a tragedy, Their queen, Elfrida, offers her a gift--and fairy bargains are never what they seem. Now grown and at university, Felicity wants to build a new life for herself. But Elfrida--and Hobb, her constant companion--has...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia University. In New York, Vega straddles many different worlds, eventually moving in and out of a series of relationships that take her through the striving world of academia, the intellectual isolation of the immigrant suburbs, and, ultimately, the loneliness of single motherhood. But it is the birth of Vega's...
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned. On day one at PICA, Molly discovers that--through some horrible twist of fate--her full-ride scholarship has vanished! But the ancient texts (PICA's dusty financial aid documents) reveal a loophole. If Molly and 9 other art students win a single game of softball, they'll receive a massive athletic scholarship. Can Molly's crew of ragtag artists succeed...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Aisling and Maya's connection is unexpected. Maya has recently returned to the University of Edinburgh for her second year, confident in her place there and in her first proper relationship with her childhood best friend, Ethan. Finally, she is one of them, those happy couples, self-satisfied in the knowledge that they are one half of something solid. Aisling is a first-year student from Ireland, ready to leave her controlling family behind. But...
Author
Series
Friends and enemies volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Blondes comes a twisted, darkly humorous story about a woman’s attempted murder, her lost memories, and the old friends who try to put her back together—or finish her off for good. When Mia Sinclair-Kroner wakes from a coma, all she can remember are the movies she’s known and loved. Her college friends quickly assemble for a weekend party, in an effort to help her remember. But with old friends come old wounds, and it...
9) Sleepwalking
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The debut novel from New York Times bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, a story of three college students' shared fascination with poetry and death, and how one of them must face difficult truths in order to leave her obsession behind. Published when she was only twenty-three and written while she was a student at Brown, Sleepwalking marks the beginning of Meg Wolitzer's acclaimed career. Filled with her usual wisdom, compassion and insight, Sleepwalking...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Now reissued, Michael Chabon's "New York Times" bestselling first novel is a funny, tender coming-of-age novel that introduces readers to Art Bechstein, a Holden Caulfield for the post-Boomer/pre-Gen X-er generation. Chabon's first novel was universally lauded as the arrival of a rare and remarkable new literary talent who has proved to be one of our most profound and original writers.
11) The professor
Author
Series
Marlitt Kaplan novels volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On a spring afternoon in Athens, Georgia, Ethan Haddock is discovered in his apartment, dead, apparently by his own hand. His fatality immediately garners media attention: not because his death reflects the troubling increase of depression and mental health issues among college students, but because the media has caught the whiff of a scandal. His professor, Dr. Verena Sobek, has been taken in for questioning, and there are rumors his death is the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"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...
13) Romper el hielo
Author
Series
Maple Hills novel volume 1
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Anastasia Allen está decidida a entrar en el equipo olímpico de patinaje artístico de Estados Unidos y, cuando consigue una beca para la Universidad de California, todo parece ir de acuerdo con su plan. El objetivo de Nathan Hawkins como capitán del equipo de hockey es mantener a sus chicos sobre el hielo cueste lo que cueste, pero todo se complica cuando tienen que compartir pista con una patinadora guapísima y con muy mal genio. La situación...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Yuri is back in Oya's arms once more, but their blissful reunion is soured when Yuri's family discovers their forbidden love affair. Even in the face of Yuri's father's fury, Oya refuses to back down or run away. With the pressure mounting, Yuri must make the hardest decision of her life. Will she choose her family and friends, or the man she loves?"--
Author
Series
Ancient magus' bride volume 19
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Closing the book Philomela finally stops clasping her hands in passive prayer, and instead reaches them out for help. Meanwhile, Lizbeth gives in to blind obsession, merging with the forbidden Testament. Then a third, unexpected party joins the fray--a curse designed to kill a mother. All actors are in place on a chaotic stage, and when the goddess Morrígan finally makes her entrance, the story of one fraught family comes to an end."--
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Dorothy (Dee) Gale is searching for a place to belong. After her mother's death, Dee and her sister Toni settled with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas, and Dee attended the University of Kansas. But after falling in love with and subsequently being humiliated by an adjunct faculty member and novelist, Dee is unable to face him-and the rest of the school-and applies to the writing program at Trinity College Dublin. At Trinity, Dee finds solace in...
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After exchanging phone numbers, Pharm and Dean begin spending time together almost every day. Their budding chemistry doesn't go unnoticed, though--soon, the potential couple is the talk of the campus! But as the pair's feelings for each other grow, their recurring dreams intensify, now infiltrating their waking lives. Will the threads of fate pull the two close enough to finally remember their promise? --
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Un error. Una segunda oportunidad. Un nuevo comienzo. Una noche de agosto, Vega conoce a un chico en la discoteca. Entre ellos la química fluye desde el primer momento. Nico es guapo, sexy y divertido, pero el hechizo se rompe cuando ella descubre que el muy idiota tiene novia. Por suerte, el curso está a punto de arrancar y Vega se muda a Madrid con sus dos mejores amigas para empezar la universidad. Lo tiene todo planeado y está dispuesta...
19) Your fault
Author
Series
Culpable volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"When Noah fell in love with Nick, she knew their relationship would never be easy. They're fire and electricity, and when they're together, every kind of sparks fly. After last summer, Noah thought their passion had grown stronger than their fear, but her life is about to turn upside-down again now that she's starting at the university. Moving again while maintaining her relationship with Nick will be a difficult hurdle, with their age difference,...
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""I've dreamed about them ever since I was a child..." Pharm is a skittish but friendly young man who is excited to start his new life as a college student. He'll make friends, join a club... and maybe figure out why he's always sensed that there's a certain someone he's fated to meet. The moment he locks eyes with Dean, the captain of the swimming club, he's attracted to him in a way he's never experienced before. Is this who he's been looking for...
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