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Two girls and three boys meet at school as young children. Together, they become an inseparable group and lean on one another through childhood and adolescence. But when the tight-knit group graduates and scatters to different colleges, their lives diverge dramatically, and some of the friends are lost forever. Those who remain will struggle to understand that even bonds that once seemed unbreakable are not proof against tragedy, but that they can...
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"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...
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In order to keep an eye on her half-sister, Shaylee, Julia Farentino takes a job at an elite boarding school in Oregon known for turning wayward kids around. Julia is suspicious of the school, because she knows of one student who disappeared, and has never been found. Soon she uncovers disturbing information about previous students.
When her troubled sister Shaylee is sent to an elite boarding school called the Academy, a place where several girls...
5) In memoriam
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2023.
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English
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"It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, all of whom are safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. They receive weekly dispatches from The Preshutian, their school newspaper, informing them of older classmates killed or wounded in action....
7) The Furies
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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In 1990s England, at an elite boarding school connected to seventeenth-century witch trials, troubled sixteen-year-old Violet is drawn into a circle of friends dabbling in witchcraft to avenge wrongs done to them.
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Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 13
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Ellie Haskell returns to her old boarding school to solve a case of robbery--and finds herself tracking a murderer.
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Found wandering naked and mentally traumatized in Central Park, the headmaster of an elite boarding school imparts a story that is shaped by complicated memories, the evolution of a loving relationship, and a tragedy he cannot comprehend.
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"In a riveting debut novel that reads like Prep meets Gone Girl, a young woman is determined to create the perfect life--husband, home, and career--until a violent incident from her past threatens to unravel everything and expose her most shocking secret of all. Twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: she's a rising star at The Women's Magazine, impossibly fit, perfectly groomed, and about to marry Luke Harrison, a handsome...
11) Age of consent
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Over the course of one year at a Connecticut boarding school and a transformative summer in New York City in the 1980s, three young women negotiate friendship, crushes, parties, privilege, and the sexual interest of older men on the journey from innocence to independence.
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School for heiresses romances volume 5
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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"The future of Charlotte Harris's finishing school is in jeopardy when a charming Spaniard--world-famous magician Diego Montalvo--arrives to turn the bordering estate into a scandalous pleasure garden. Valiantly ignoring his wicked flirtations, outspoken Lucinda Seton vows to derail his plans and save the school, unaware that Diego's true mission is to spirit the long-lost heiress away to Spain for a handsome reward!...--p.[4] of cover.
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Amanda Brown mysteries volume 4
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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The final book Myers' Belgian Congo-set mystery series, this is the story of an all-girls boarding school for runaway child brides, and features events inspired by Myers' childhood in the Belgian Congo.
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School for heiresses volume 5
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Gramedia Pustaka
Pub. Date
2015
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Indonesian
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When Diego Montalvo, a dashing Spanish magician, moves next door to Charlotte Harris's School for Young Ladies, ostensibly to build a pleasure garden, the beautiful & determined Lucy Seton sets out to save the threatened school. But Diego finds her as interesting as his new project.
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Gallagher girls volume 1
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Disney, Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
16) Learned by heart
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, Learned by Heart is a heartbreakingly gorgeous novel from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and...
17) Siempre amigos
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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Una conmovedora historia sobre la fortuna de enfrentarse a los desafíos de la vida con verdaderos amigos a nuestro lado. Cuando Gabby, Izzie, Billy, Andy y Sean se conocen el primer día de colegio, sienten una conexión y una complicidad especiales. Ajenos a los nubarrones de tormenta que se están formando a su alrededor, compartirán horas de clases y juegos, y poco a poco se harán inseparables. La adolescencia vendrá acompañada de confl...
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2023.
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English
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Native American Heritage Month Fiction
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"The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day. From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories...
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Libros de Seda
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.
"Un lugar oscuro donde las chicas problemáticas, las hijas de madres solteras o las que han cometido un desliz... desaparecen. ¿Logrará Fiona Sheridan descubrir el misterio que envuelve Idlewild Hall? Vermont, 1950. Existe un lugar para muchachas...
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