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America's "peerless observer" (People) uncovers college life-from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating-plus race, class, sex, and basketball. Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition... Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina, who has come here on full scholarship. But...
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006
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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...
3) Best friends
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2001
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Before arriving at Oberlin in 1973, Clare Mann had never met anyone like Sally Rose. Rich and beautiful, Sally is utterly foreign to a middle-class, Midwestern Protestant like Clare-and utterly fascinating. The fascination only grows when Sally brings her home to L.A. Mr. Rose-charismatic, charming, and the owner of a profitable business shrouded in secrecy-is nearly as compelling a figure to Clare as he is to his own daughter. California seems like...
4) Commencement
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
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J. Courtney Sullivan's celebrated debut novel is a sparkling tale of friendship 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. Assigned to the same dorm their first year at Smith College, Celia, Bree, Sally, and April couldn't have less in common. Celia, a lapsed Catholic, arrives with a bottle of vodka in her suitcase; beautiful Bree pines for the fiancé...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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Set in the richly evoked pathways and environs of Cambridge, England, The Whole World unearths the desperate secrets kept by its many complex characters-students, professors, detectives, husbands, and mothers-that lead to deadly consequences. Two Americans studying at Cambridge University, Polly and Liv, who are both strangers to their new home and both running away from painful memories, become quick friends. They find a common interest in Nick,...
6) Ever after
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Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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Two couples torn apart-one by war between countries, one by war within. In this moving sequel to Even Now, Emily Anderson, now twenty, is attending college on a soccer scholarship when she meets the man who changes everything for her: Army reservist Justin Baker. Their tender relationship, founded on a mutual faith in God and nurtured by their trust and love for each other, proves to be a shining inspiration to everyone they know, especially Emily's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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The third book in the beloved, New York Times bestselling series - now with a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Serle
Life finally seems to be going right for Jessica Darling. She escaped the New Jersey suburbs and attends Columbia University in New York City. She's more into her boyfriend, Marcus Flutie, than ever-even if he's at a college across t The third book in the beloved, New York Times bestselling series - now with...
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2001
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Sarah Bird authors brilliant, introspective novels of bittersweet reminiscence tempered with humor. The Yokota Officers Club is a tale both courageous and touching-a journey of the heart that speaks volumes of the transient, isolated lifestyle of military families. Having grown up at the Yokota Air Base in Japan, and having moved six times in the last eight years, Bernadette "Bernie" Root and her five siblings are quintessential military brats. It's...
11) Rush: a novel
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2018.
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Cali Watkins has all the qualities sororities look for. She's kind, intelligent, friendly, and even plans to run for governor someday. But her resume lacks pedigree. Without family money, her chances are thin. Miss Pearl has been housekeeper and second mother to the Ole Miss Alpha Delt girls for twenty-five years. When an opportunity for pormotion arises, it seems a natural fit. When Miss Pearl's "babies" find out her hopes were crushed, they devise...
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Pub. Date
2007
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As the New York Times has said, “Few writers can manipulate a plot with [Chris] Bohjalian’s grace and power.” Now he is back with an ambitious new novel that travels between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island and rural New England, between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century.
When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed....
When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed....
13) Heartbreak hotel
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
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Anne Rivers Siddons is well-loved for her evocative and revealing portraits of Southern women coming into their own. In Heartbreak Hotel, she brings to the reader a young woman coming-of-age in the South of the 1950s-amid the racial revolution and the strife of a humid Alabama summer.
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Alex Stern volume 2
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"Alex Stern returns in #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent, another tale of murder and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell-even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren't just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven,...
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Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Unwilling to commit to a career woman who loves him but unable to stand her dating anyone else, a man who has forfeited his job in law enforcement sabotages her dates before realizing that he must prove himself.
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"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...
20) Inklings
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Oxford chronicles volume 1
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Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
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