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61) The stressed years of their lives: helping your kid survive and thrive during their college years
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From two leading child and adolescent mental health experts comes a guide for the parents of every college and college-bound student who want to know what's normal mental health and behavior, what's not, and how to intervene before it's too late. All parenting is in preparation for letting go. However, the paradox of parenting is that the more we learn about late adolescent development and risk, the more frightened we become for our children, and...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"For as long as she can remember, Patience Adewale has been waiting for confirmation that she is loved, that there is a place where she truly belongs. The eldest daughter of Chief Kolade Adewale, Patience lives a sheltered life in Ibadan, but within the walls of their mansion, her distant father and stepmother Modupe offer no comfort. Her only ally in the house is her younger sister, Margaret, but Margaret can only do so much. More than anything,...
63) On a whim
Author
Series
Katie Weldon series volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The second book in the Katie Weldon Series, On a Whim follows Katie as she heads toward college graduation. Katie's life begins to change and she must decide what to hold on to and what to let go of. Katie renews the bond between her and Christy, Todd, and Rick as they embrace adulthood.
Author
Series
Keene and Frohmann novels volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a Cambridge murder is tied to the inadvertent reading of a private letter, Detective Inspector Chloe Frohmann is forced to consider a life-changing betrayal while investigating a hallowed university, a troubled young woman and a modest country manor overshadowed by a deadly secret.
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
'I don't expect anyone to believe me,' warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he's kidnapped in a bookshop and whisked away by thugs to a basement. The gangsters are threatening his cousin--a wannabe entrepreneur known to some as 'Projects' and to others as 'dickhead' - who is gagged and tied to a chair. The thugs say Juan Pablo must work for them. His...
66) 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...
67) Off the record
Author
Series
Record novels (K.A. Linde) volume 1
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Liz Dougherty has no idea that a single question is about to change her life. Her first big reporting assignment for her North Carolina college newspaper has her covering a state senator's impromptu press conference. Brady Maxwell may have everything it takes to be a politician - a winning pedigree, devastating good looks, a body made to wear suits - but his politics rub Liz the wrong way. When Liz's hard-hitting question catches the upstart senator...
Author
Series
Maybe (Colleen Hoover) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
What is more important? Friendship, loyalty, or love? Colleen Hoover and Griffin Peterson collaborate once again to bring fans of "Maybe Someday" back into the musical world of Ridge Lawson and Sydney Blake. And Maggie. And Warren and Bridgette.
Maggie meets Jake, a cardiologist with a penchant for tandem skydiving. Getting ready for a post-jump date, Maggie comes across an old list of things she wanted to do "maybe one of these days," and decides...
69) Welcome to college, your career starts now!: a practical guide to academic and professional success
Author
Publisher
BookBaby
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For every student, both a successful transition into college, and the subsequent transition from college to career, are critically important. Written by an author who has had long experience in both the corporate and academic worlds, "Welcome to College - Your Career Starts Now!" is the ideal book to help guide students through both transitions, while giving good advice on how to integrate the college years into the process of determining one's career.Many...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
This novel takes us into the heart of the Ivy League's ultraexclusive secret societies when a young woman is invited to join as one of their first female members. Elite Eli University junior Amy Haskel never expected to be tapped into Rose & Grave, the country's most powerful--and notorious--secret society. She isn't rich, politically connected, or...well, male. So when Amy receives the distinctive black-lined invitation with the Rose & Grave seal,...
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Language
English
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Description
"Taking its title from a group of stories that begin the book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups moves from contemporary L.A. to the dorm rooms of an American college to ancient Pompeii, throwing the reader into a universe of social misfits, reimagined scenes from history, and ridiculous overreactions. In one piece, a tense email exchange between a young man and his girlfriend is taken over by his sister, who is obsessed with the Bosnian genocide (The situation...
74) Daddy Long-Legs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month, and that she can never know who he is. Judy's life at college is a whirlwind of friends, classes, parties, and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis Pendleton. With so much happening in her life, Judy can scarcely stop writing to the mysterious "Daddy-Long-Legs"!
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The first woman president of an elite progressive college responds to student protests about a popular professor's tenure denial before the group's controversial leader emerges and shocking acts of vandalism begin to destabilize the campus.
76) Girl on the line
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the critically acclaimed author of Invisible City and Conviction, The Missing Hours is a novel about obsession, privilege, and the explosive consequences of one violent act. From a distance, Claudia Castro has it all: a famous family, a trust fund, thousands of Instagram followers, and a spot in NYU's freshman class. But look closer, and things are messier: her parents are separating, she's just been humiliated by a sleazy documentary, and her...
78) The ultimate college cookbook: easy, flavor-forward recipes for your campus (or off-campus) kitchen
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Students will discover the joy and simplicity of cooking for themselves with 60 recipes for easy, delicious meals that can easily be made in any dorm room or shared apartment. The Ultimate College Cookbook offers sixty recipes for everything from breakfast to weeknight cooking and weekend gatherings, on-campus or off. Each dish is designed to be cooked in a dorm-friendly appliance, including microwaves, toaster ovens, electric burners, rice cookers,...
79) Loner
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A new novel about a troubled young college freshman who becomes dangerously sexually obsessed with a classmate"--
"For fans of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, a propulsive literary novel about sexual obsession in which a meek Harvard freshman becomes dangerously infatuated with a classmate. David Federman has never felt appreciated. One of the most painfully forgettable members of his New Jersey high school class--yet the only one accepted to...
80) Above the paw
Author
Series
Paw enforcement volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When college students fall seriously ill after ingesting a club drug, Officer Megan Luz and her K-9 partner Brigit go undercover to infiltrate the drug ring and are led in an unexpected and dangerous direction that places their lives at risk.
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