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81) Ninth house
Author
Series
Alex Stern volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Two years after she was raped by her brother's teammate, Ashley is still struggling with everyday life. He was given a slap-on-the-wrist sentence; she is still suffering crippling panic attacks. Her brother Derek blames himself for how he handled the aftermath of the rape. Now in college, he must come to terms with what happened, and with the rape culture he was inadvertently a part of. Includes resources about sexualized violence and rape culture....
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history - the ultimate destination for someone with something to hide. Perfect for Clare, then, who arrives utterly alone and yearning to reinvent herself. And what better place to conceal the secrets in her past than at the university in the heart of the fabled, cobblestoned Old Town? When Clare meets Tabitha, a charismatic, beautiful, and intimidatingly rich...
84) The incendiaries
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with...
85) Always red
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"Red, " Caleb whispered. "Do you know how I felt when you left me?" I looked into his eyes. The emotion I saw in them, the intensity, and the tenderness filled up my throat. "I felt ruined. Because, Red, every time you break me apart, you put me back together. And I always come out better than before." "So, " he cupped my face, stroking my cheek with his thumb. "Ruin me."
Veronica "Red" Strafford's painful past has made trusting Caleb Lockhart difficult....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
The first graduating class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is thrown into turmoil by bizarre phenomena that cause instruments to inexplicably spin out of control, challenging enterprising students to protect lives while combating Harvard rivals.
Author
Series
Maple Hills volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Appears on list
Description
"Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins. Nate's focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died under mysterious circumstances fifteen years earlier, Genna, her former roommate, begins an unofficial inquiry into her death. As she reconstructs their tumultuous freshman year at the college in race-torn 1960s Philadelphia, Genna is led also to reconstruct...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat have been a pair since kindergarten. But by graduation, they're no longer friends. As James prepares to head off to college, her parents announce they're getting a divorce. Kat thinks about being newly in love with her first girlfriend, and becoming the person she's meant to be. Are they growing apart, or is this just a temporary low in their friendship? -- adapted from jacket
90) Girl abroad
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Formats
Description
"When nineteen-year-old Abbey Bly gets the opportunity to study abroad for a year in London, it's the perfect chance to finally slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing retired rock star father. She's ready to be free, to discover herself--but first off, to meet the girls she's rooming with. That is, until she arrives at her gorgeous new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys. Charming, funny, insufferably attractive...
91) Iron flame
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Series
Description
Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance. It's...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Run and Hide is Pankaj Mishra's intimate story of achieving material progress at great moral and emotional cost. It is also the story of a changing country and global order, and the inequities of class and gender that map onto our most intimate relationships."--
93) The finalists
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The competitive selection process for a prized college scholarship turns deadly in the latest thriller from USA Today bestselling author David Bell. On a beautiful spring day, six college students with nothing in common besides a desperate inability to pay for school gather to compete for the prestigious Hyde Fellowship. Milo-The front-runner Natalia-The brain James-The rule follower Sydney-The athlete Duffy-The cowboy Emily-The social justice warrior...
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"College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated...
Author
Series
Magicians volume 3
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...
97) 3 idiots
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Description
Three students at India's most prestious university cause chaos on their campus with pranks, to the displeasure of the dean.
Author
Series
Kennedy Stern volume 4
Publisher
Firstfruits Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"A teenage boy begging God to make him straight. An evangelical father refusing to accept his son is gay. A college sophomore who could never predict the dangers about to overtake her and the ones she loves. An intense and compassionate novel from beloved indie suspense author Alana Terry. No matter where you stand, Straightened will challenge you to delve into the homosexuality controversy with your eyes wide open and extend the grace and empathy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Firstfruits Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
When a summer mission trip turns horribly wrong ... The gritty, fast-paced finale to the popular Kennedy Stern Christian suspense series. Kennedy learns what it means to suffer for the gospel and vows to persevere under persecution. This time, however, faith alone might not save her ... or the ones she cares about most. Read Captivated today.
Author
Publisher
Joffe Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Darby Thorne is a college student stranded by a blizzard at a highway rest stop in the middle of nowhere. She's on the way home to see her sick mother. She'll have to spend the night in the rest stop with four complete strangers. Then she stumbles across a little girl locked inside one of their parked cars. There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, no way out because of the snow, and she doesn't know which one of the other travelers is the kidnapper....
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