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1) Ninth house
Author
Series
Alex Stern volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the critically acclaimed author of Something to Talk About comes Meryl Wilsner's Mistakes Were Made, a sharp and sexy rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend's mom. When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her school's Family Weekend, she isn't looking for a hookup--it just happens. Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. But then the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
Professor Alan Grant is found stabbed to death in his New Jersey home. All the evidence points to an obsessed student, twenty-one-year old Laurie Kenyon, who sent him passionate letters, followed him, even watched him through his study window-and awakens in her dorm room, covered with Grant's blood and clutching the knife that killed him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum.
The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia...
Author
Series
Angelic intervention volume 10
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...
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Series
Language
English
Description
" Ranch owner Cane Kirk lost more than his arm in the war. He lost his way, battling his inner demons by challenging any cowboy unfortunate enough to get in his way. No one seems to be able to cool him down, except beautiful Bodie Mays. Bodie doesn't mind saving Cane from himself, even if he is a little too tempting for her own peace of mind. But soon Bodie's the one who finds herself in need of rescuing--only, she's afraid to tell Cane what's really...
8) Belle
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Named for her beauty, Belle Dubois is as sweet as can be. Born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she is always given the best-until her world is turned upside down. When she away in her second year of college, she receives a call informing her that her parents have been murdered. She soon finds out that they were broke, and subsequently, so is she. (Original), 240pp.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Unable to shake feelings of hostility and unease while housesitting for a wealthy couple during the summer before college, a young woman uncovers the property’s dark history and her own fated role in making things right.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a Penguin Random House Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"After moving to a seemingly quaint and quiet new town, Lucy faces a new reality in which fairies exist, weather can be bottled and witches hold grudges."--
11) Lost souls
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
True crime writer Kristi Benz, searching for the one case that will take her to the top, gets her wish when she enrolls at All Saints College to investigate the brutal murders of three troubled girls, all of whom were found with the blood drained from their bodies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"First Lucy was attacked during The College camping trip. Then professor Simeon was caught unawares on The College campus itself. As the victim count begins to rise, it comes to light that a forbidden tome has been stolen--a tome that Elias once glanced through--The Testament of Carnamagos. As The College staff begins to suspect a connection between the two events, Chise and Lucy must contend with a pack of ravenous werewolves out for their lives!"--...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As the College continues its desperate search for The Testament of Carnamagos, the danger has grown so dire that the Vice-Chancellor has decided to put the College in lockdown until Christmas. Through their shared plight, Chise and her classmates come to know more about each other. Thanks to their experiences in the Abandoned Hall, they all begin to change, whether they like it or not. Some grow closer, while others begin drifting apart."--
15) Killingly
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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,...
16) Don't look at me
Author
Publisher
Sagging Meniscus Press
Pub. Date
©2022
Language
English
Description
"Meet Holly Winegarten, a campus celebrity and painfully self-conscious young woman trying to come to terms with being six feet, nine inches tall. Sidelined by injury from a basketball career, she develops a fascination for Emily Dickinson, an American icon famed for her self-effacement. Holly discovers lost love letters and learns that Dickinson's clandestine lover was an immigrant Irish workingman who served as a wartime substitute for her cherished...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Continuing their first semester at university, fast friends Susan, Esther, and Daisy want to find their footing in life. The girls, along with their male hall-mates, Ed and McGraw find that college is more than academics and bad microwavable meals. Add some pub hopping, hookups, breakups and political scandal this might just be the most eventful first semester ever.
20) Blessings
Author
Series
Sommerfeld trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
For as long as she can remember, Trina Muller has had a special affinity with animals. When the local vet, recognizes Trina's passion and abilities, he assures her that she can take over his practice when she becomes a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. But that's a career of which her parents heartily disapprove. And Graham Ortmann loves Trina, but how can he marry someone who's determined to step outside the dictates of the Old Order Mennonite fellowship?...
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