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41) Abroad: a novel
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A young English woman studying abroad in Italy is murdered under bizarre circumstances.
42) Hell bent
Author
Series
Alex Stern volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Wealth. Power, Murder, Magic, Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Alex is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory, even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Alex and Dawes can't call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and artifacts to uncover the societies' secrets and break every rule doing it. But...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A heartwarming Christmas novel of romance, hope, and the comforts of home. Harry Mills is a guardian angel on a mission: help twenty-four-year-old Addie Folsom get her life back on track--and, if the right moment strikes, help her find love. Posing as a teacher at a local college in Tacoma, Washington, Harry is up to the task, but not even he can predict the surprises that lay in store. After trying to make it on her own, Addie has returned home...
45) Frat girl
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cassandra Davis wins a scholarship to the college of her dreams but acceptance requires a research project. Cassie pitches the idea to pledge a fraternity in order to expose sexist and misogynistic behavior.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Yellowjackets meets The Cloisters in this beguiling coming-of-age story about class, reinvention, and destiny, set against the backdrop of two mysterious deaths. Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale equestrian team. But when she comes back from her junior year abroad with newfound confidence, she finds that the group has been infiltrated by a mysterious intruder: Annelise Tattinger. A talented...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Es 1996 y Selin se embarca en el segundo curso como estudiante de literatura de Harvard. Aunque el verano ha quedado atrás, no puede dejar de pensar en lo ocurrido durante esos meses en Hungría al lado de Ivan, el chico del que está enamorada. Los últimos emails que han intercambiado no dejan claro en qué términos está ahora su relación, y aunque en la literatura ella disfruta de las historias complejas protagonizadas por mujeres condenadas...
Author
Series
Knitting mystery volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Kelly Flynn unravels the murder of a college student who was attending her knitting classes at the House of Lambspun.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Shane has been doing college all wrong. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parents...sounds ideal -- but Shane's made zero friends, goes home every weekend, and romance...what's that? Her life has been dorm, dining hall, class, repeat. Time's a ticking, and she needs a change -- there's nothing like moving to a new country to really mix things up. Shane signs up for a semester abroad in London. She's going to right all her college mistakes: make friends,...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who's never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared...
53) Blood of Zeus
Author
Series
Blood of Zeus volume 1
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An ancient grudge. A forbidden love. The only thing worse than being a demon is being a Valari. As an undergraduate at Los Angeles's Alameda University, Kara Valari can sometimes succeed at forgetting she's both. Lost between the pages of the classics and tucked into the shadows of lecture halls, she can dodge the paparazzi's lenses as well as her family's publicized dramas--not to mention their private expectations. She has one more year to feed...
Author
Series
Augusta Goodnight mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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...
56) A secret rage
Author
Publisher
Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Former model Nickie Callahan moves to a sleepy Tennessee college town, where she is swept up in a string of brutally violent crimes and must take matters of justice into her own hands.
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."--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Yale University, along with the rest of the Ivy League, kept its gates closed to women until the class of 1969. The reason for letting them in? As an incentive for men to attend. Yale Needs Women is the story of why the most elite schools in the nation refused women for so long, and what the first women to enter those halls faced when they stepped onto campus"--
60) Ever after
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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