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41) My Oxford year
Author
Language
English
Description
"American Ella Durran has had the same plan for her life since she was thirteen: Study at Oxford. At 24, she's finally made it to England on a Rhodes Scholarship when she's offered an unbelievable position in a rising political star's presidential campaign. With the promise that she'll work remotely and return to DC at the end of her Oxford year, she's free to enjoy her Once in a Lifetime Experience. That is, until a smart-mouthed local who is too...
42) Slicker
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Secret Society Girl volume v4
Publisher
Delta
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
44) Nada: una novela
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Loosely based on the author's own life, Nada is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Afraid of losing her parents at a young age--her father with his weak heart, her deeply depressed mother--Naomi Feinstein prepared single-mindedly for a prestigious future as a doctor. An outcast at school, Naomi loses herself in books, and daydreams of Wellesley College. But when Teddy, her confidant and only friend, abruptly departs from her life, it's the first devastating loss from which Naomi is not sure she can ever recover, even after her...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Moving into an off-campus house with magnetic and addictive Lucy Sharpe and two other girls, shy and quiet Margot finally comes out of the shell she's been in since her best friend Eliza died until one of the fraternity boys next door is murdered and Lucy goes missing.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When investigative journalist Gina Kane receives an email from a 'CRyan' describing her 'terrible experience' while working at REL, a high-profile television news network, including the comment 'and I'm not the only one', Gina knows she has to pursue the story. But when Ryan goes silent, Gina is shocked to discover the young woman has died tragically in a jet ski accident while on holiday. Meanwhile, REL counsel Michael Carter finds himself in a...
Author
Series
Anna Curtis novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Allison Leotta, the "highly entertaining storyteller" (George Pelecanos) who writes "in a style that's as real as it gets" (USA TODAY), a ripped-from-the-headlines novel featuring prosecutor Anna Curtis at the center of a national story involving campus rape and the disappearance of a young woman. Emma, a freshman at a Michigan university, has gone missing. She was last seen leaving a bar near the prestigious and secretive fraternity known on...
49) Abroad
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The old Etruscan city of Grifonia swarms with year-abroad students; ostensibly, they've come to study. But really they are here to reinvent themselves, to shuck their identities and buck constraints far from the watchful eyes of parents and others who know them too well. Today's young ladies don't travel with chaperones... and Grifonia is a city filled with dangerous secrets of many kinds: ancient, eternal, infernal....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xi, 204 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding-school girls that inspired the acclaimed film: It was a cloudless summer day in 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther,...
51) A secret rage
Author
Series
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.
52) Killingly
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bertha Mellish, 'the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl' at Mount Holyoke College, is missing. One cold November morning the junior is spotted walking through the Massachusetts woods; then, she vanishes. As a search team dredges the pond where she might have drowned, Bertha's panicked father and sister arrive at the campus desperate to find some clue as to her fate or state of mind. Bertha's best friend, Agnes, a scholarly loner studying medicine,...
53) You're not you
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Obsession Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Jane is a young, sweet, and very innocent girl who just can't wait to step into her new college dorm room. But at this college, you don't stay innocent for very long! On this campus, the parties are wild, the students are wilder, the girls are all hot, and the boys are hot under the collar from looking at all the nubile young bodies. The motto of the students is PARTY, PARTY, PARTY!
55) Sorority
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 291 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Margot is dead. There's a rumor she died because she couldn't take the pressure of being a pledge. You may not ask what happened to her. It's not your business. But it wasn't a suicide, if you're wondering. Spring Fling will not be cancelled. The deposit is non-refundable. And Margot would have wanted the sisterhood to continue in her absence, if only to protect her sisters secrets: Shannon is the thinnest girl in the house (the other sisters hate...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? To Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda; Chie, Miwako's best friend; and Fumi, Ryusei's older sister, Miwako was more than the blunt, no-nonsense person she projected to the world. Heartbroken, Ryusei begs Chie to take him to the village...
59) Thelma
Publisher
[Passion River Films]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
A shy young student leaves her small town and religious family to study at a university in Oslo, but once on campus she experiences what appears to be a violent, unexpected seizure. Overwhelmed by the increasing intensity of the mystifying episodes and her powerful feelings for a beautiful classmate, she struggles to control her supernatural abilities.
60) Old bones
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community--set in a city at its boiling point--from an author who's been in the trenches and seen it all. A senseless act of violence. During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black women's institution, are assaulted by rifle fire from a passing vehicle. On her way to interview witnesses, Detective Sarah "Salt" Alt confronts...
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