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2) The truants
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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People disappear when they most want to be seen. Jess Walker has come to a concrete campus under the flat gray skies of East Anglia for one reason: to be taught by the mesmerizing and rebellious Dr. Lorna Clay, whose seminars soon transform Jess's thinking on life, love, and Agatha Christie. Swept up in Lorna's thrall, Jess falls in with a tightly knit group of rule-breakers--Alec, a courageous South African journalist with a nihilistic streak; Georgie,...
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English
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The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “University of Idaho Murders,” offering a memorable, thoughtful dive into our societal fascination with true crime, the media’s seeming blood-frenzy, and the future of homicide investigations, while cultivating an intimate look into the minds and hearts of the victims and their suspected killer alike. Just after 4:00 am on November 13, 2022, four University...
4) Hell bent
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Series
Alex Stern volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory―even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can’t call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times. “A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.”O: The Oprah Magazine. “Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable.”USA Today....
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"In her first weeks at Hawthorne College, Malin is swept up into a tight-knit circle that will stick together through all four years. There's Gemma, an insecure theater major from London; John, a tall, handsome, and wealthy New Englander; Max, John's cousin and a shy pre-med major; Khaled, a wise-cracking prince from Abu Dhabi; and Ruby, a beautiful art history major. But Malin isn't quite like the rest of her friends. She's an expert at hiding her...
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known and Admission, a twisty new novel about a college president, a baffling student protest, and some of the most hot-button issues on today's college campuses. Naomi Roth is the first female president of Webster College, a once conservative school now known for producing fired-up, progressive graduates. So Naomi isn't surprised or unduly alarmed when Webster students begin the fall...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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From one of the most followed booktubers today, comes Again, But Better, a story about second chances, discovering yourself, and being brave enough to try again.Shane has been doing college all wrong. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parentssounds ideal -- but Shane's made zero friends, goes home every weekend, and romancewhats that? Her life has been dorm, dining hall, class, repeat. Time's a ticking, and she needs a change -- there's nothing like...
10) Franny and Zooey
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1955-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Meet Franny and her younger brother, Zooey, in two Salinger stories.
11) Class: a memoir
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America's educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother's triumph...
12) Ninth house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League elite. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yales 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...
13) Chasing Red
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Series
Chasing Red novels volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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He had everythingwealth, adoration, a brilliant future. Until one chance encounter changed everything. The moment Caleb Lockhart spotted the mysterious woman in her siren red dress, he couldn't tear his eyes away. For the first time in his life, he wanted something. Something he knew he could never have. The unforgettable stranger he dubs RED.
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Series
Fifty shades trilogy volume 1
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English
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When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview the young, enigmatic entrepreneur Christian Grey she encounters a man who is brilliant, beautiful, and deeply flawed. Lured by her looks, stung by her wit, and challenged by her independent spirit, Grey is determined to make Ana his sexual possession -- and what Grey wants he gets. But can their relationship ever go deeper than that? Will Ana ever penetrate Grey's cold armour, and if she does,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"After picking up and leaving everything behind in California, eighteen-year-old Marin, with the help of her former friend, must confront her grief and the truths that caused her to flee her home"--
16) Pitch perfect 3
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Following their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices.
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English
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Two teenage boys are missing and their disappearance may be linked to a shady fertility clinic Sam Parker and Lily Madison visited in college as penniless sudents. When Sam and Lily learn that one of the missing boys looks exactly like Sam, they set out to discover what really went on at the clinic all those years ago.
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Publisher
Disney/Pixar
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Ever since Mike Wazowski was a little monster, he has dreamed of becoming a Scarer, and he knows that the best Scarers come from MU. But during his first semester at MU, Mike's plans are derailed when he crosses paths with hotshot James P. Sullivan, a natural-born Scarer. The pair's out-of-control competitive spirit gets them both kicked out of the University's elite Scare Program. With their dreams dashed, they realize they will have to work together...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written on their skin--names, dates, details both banal and profound--and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully, her own skin is blank. When she meets Neil, she is intrigued to see her name on his cheek. He's in Paris for the summer, studying a medieval pilfrimage to the coast of Spain, where the body of Saint...
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