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1) The teacher
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English
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New Releases—February 6, 2024
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NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction
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Lesson #1: Trust no one.
Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except...
Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.
Addie can't be trusted. She lies. She...
Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except...
Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.
Addie can't be trusted. She lies. She...
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
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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,...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words - and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa - Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is light years away from the world he knew...
5) 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...
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The kids in these humorous short stories each have a minor superpower they're learning to live with. One can shape-shift -- but only part of her body, and only on Mondays. Another can always tell whether an avocado is perfectly ripe. One can even hear the thoughts of the animals in the pet store! But what these stories are really about is their young protagonists "owning" a power that contributes to their individuality, that allows them to find their...
Author
Publisher
JY, an imprint of Yen Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's not about winning... It's life-and-death! One by one, students stop coming to school, and rumors spread that a cursed video game is behind the disappearances. Mai Yashiro wants nothing to do with it, but then a mysterious console appears in her bag. A creepy voice gives Mai a choice: play the game or lose everyone she cares about. She chooses to protect her loved ones, but any sense of relief is short-lived. It turns out dying in the game has...
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
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...
10) Night shift
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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.
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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...
Author
Series
Eowulf volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"From Mike Cavallaro comes a story set in the Nico Bravo universe that spotlights an unforgettable, iconic new heroine! Eowulf Wegmund just had the most amazing summer ever! She traveled to a magical supply shop at the crossroads of all realities, rescued unicorn soldiers from a pocket dimension, and fought an evil god with the help of her new friend Nico Bravo. Pretty rad stuff, even if you are descended from the legendary monster hunter Beowulf!...
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...
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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...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn't know died by suicide. A tenuous link--one text--bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. But they got it wrong and now someone is determined to set it right. Twelve years later, college friends gather to celebrate an...
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Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Atlanta, Georgia, is the hub of the black college experience. Nia Scott, a gifted pre-med student at Clark Atlanta University, is focused on one goal: becoming a doctor. With her Superwoman mentality, she believes she can do it all. But along with trying to achieve her dreams come challenges.
18) The fatal folio
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Series
Cambridge bookshop mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Author
Series
Diary of a Confused Feminist volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
British teen Kat Evens, determined to be a good feminist, stumbles through high school with all its bullies, parties, embarrassing moments and crippling self-doubt with the help of her best friends, her parents and her diary as she figures out how to reach her goal.
20) Bad like us
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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"--
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