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Language
English
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Soon to be a major motion picture directed by George C. Wolfe, produced by Denise Di Novi and starring Hilary Swank, Josh Duhamel and Emmy Rossum.
Bec is adrift. It's the summer before her junior year in college. She's sleeping with a married professor, losing interest in her classes, and equivocating about her career. She takes a job caring for Kate, a thirty-six-year-old woman who has been immobilized by ALS.
As it turns out, before the disease...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel in verse, a mixed-heritage dancer's coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother's descent into addiction, and her father's efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he can't hide from his past, and it's not long before it comes looking for him. Along with Plum, a brilliant young undergraduate with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and...
Author
Series
A Jessica Darling novel bk. 3
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Remembering the talented African-American roommate who died under mysterious circumstances fifteen years earlier, Genna begins an unofficial inquiry into her death, reconstructing their tumultuous freshman year in race-torn 1960s Philadelphia.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
Working at a homeless shelter, student Laurel Estabrook encounters Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of secret photos, but when Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel embarks on an obsessive search for the truth behind the photos.
10) Commencement
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A tender story of friendship, a witty take on liberal arts colleges, and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose.
11) The idiot
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A young Irish drama student in 1990s London makes new friends, establishes a place for herself, and seeks to shed her plain-girl identity before entering a whirlwind affair with an older man who changes her in unexpected ways.--From the publisher.
13) Here we lie
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The summer before senior year, Meagan Mazeros joins Lauren Mabrey and her family on their private island off the coast of Maine. It should be a summer of relaxation, a last hurrah before graduation and the pressures of postcollege life. Then late one night, something unspeakable happens, searing through the framework of their friendship and tearing them apart. Many years later, Megan publicly comes forward about what happened that fateful night, revealing...
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Two people brought together by a horrific act are united in a common cause by the powers of the Silver Box. The two join to protect humanity from destruction by an alien race, the Laz, hell-bent on regaining control over the Silver Box, the most destructive and powerful tool in the universe. The Silver Box will stop at nothing to prevent its former master from returning to being, even if it means finishing the earth itself. --Publisher.
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Detective Manon Bradshaw is 39, single, and miserable as sin. She has endured some of the worst dates in Internet history. But she loves her job and performs it brilliantly. All she needs to rise up in the ranks is a big break, [and she may have found it in] Edith Hind, a gorgeous, intrepid graduate student at Cambridge University who seems to have it all: a doting boyfriend, a devoted friend named Helena, a loving mother, and a father who is a...
17) Canary
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Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Honors student Sarie Holland is busted by the local police while doing a favor for her boyfriend. Unwilling to betray him but desperate to avoid destroying her future, Sarie has no choice but to become a 'CI' --a confidential informant. Philly narcotics cop Ben Wildey is hungry for a career-making bust. The detective thinks he's found the key in Sarie: her boyfriend scores from a mid-level dealer with alleged ties to the major drug gangs. Sarie...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
On her way to her nineteenth wedding anniversary celebration, Natalie Falcone leaves the struggling restaurant she owns with her brother-in-law, Vince. She doesn't speak to him on her way out; they haven't spoken in months. But out on the sidewalk, she gets a phone call every mother dreads: It's from the emergency room where her daughter, Arden, attends college. Arden's been in a fire, along with Natalie's niece, Rory-- Vince's daughter and Arden...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
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...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
August 1949. Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad. Socially poised but financially precarious, and all too aware of her mother’s expectations that she make a brilliant match, she has one year to herself to explore and absorb the luminous beauty of the City of Light. She strikes up a romance with a young writer who shares her love of literature and passion for culture. But France is a fragile place still haunted...
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