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1) Skippy dies
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English
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Why does Skippy, a student at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Or Carl, the teenage drug dealer who is Skippy's rival in love?
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Bantam Books
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English
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In the halls of Newport Academy, a unique private school that has attracted generations of rebels, outcasts, and visionaries, a poignant and unforgettable lesson in the eternal truths of sisterhood is about to begin for Maggie Shaw, her fourteen-year-old daughter Beck, and her sixteen-year-old son Travis.
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Park Row Books
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English
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"At an elite private school nestled in the Colorado mountains, Natalie, an office assistant, dreams of having a life like the school moms she deals with every day. Women like Brooke--a gorgeous heiress, ferociously loving mother and serial cheater--and Asha, an overprotective mom who suspects her husband of having an affair. Their fates are bound by the handsome assistant athletic director Nicholas, whom Natalie loves, Brooke wants and Asha needs....
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English
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"Beloved New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a compulsively readable tale of an idyllic California beach town forced to reckon with scandal when a high school valedictorian's speech reveals secrets that shake the town to its core"--
"Beloved New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a compulsively readable tale of an idyllic California beach town forced to reckon with scandal when a high school valedictorian’s...
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Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A novel told through interviews with former classmates and the main characters blog posts, playlists, and text messages, reveals how, a year after arriving at an elite New Jersey boarding school, Foster Dade was expelled in a tragic scandal.
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English
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"NYT bestselling author Monica Murphy takes you back to the Lancaster Prep world with a deeply romantic story about the most popular girl at school - and the boy who becomes completely obsessed with her. Wren Beaumont is a model student. Kind, clever and beautiful, she is loved by everyone at Lancaster Prep. Everyone but brooding campus bad boy Crew Lancaster. Son of the family who own the school, Crew's life seems easy - but with an overbearing...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Drawn in by the promises of the popular and wealthy Naomi, insecure prep school student Carole is talked into accompanying Naomi and two young men to a Vermont cabin for the purpose of losing her virginity, with tragic results.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
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Elizabeth Channing comes to teach art at the Chatham School in 1926, bringing with her a world of experiences far different from those of the people in the small Cape Cod village, and setting off a scandal that haunts student Henry Griswald into his old age.
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Series
School for heiresses romances volume 6
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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"At eighteen, Charlotte Page made a life-altering mistake. She wronged a man in an impulsive act that she came to deeply regret, though it led her to her present life as Mrs. Charlotte Harris, owner of Mrs. Harris's School for Young Ladies. Unbeknownst to her, that man is now her anonymous benefactor, the mysterious 'Cousin Michael.' His masquerade began as preparation for a devastating revenge, but became a labor of love. Now Charlotte desperately...
15) A narrow door
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Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules. It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered....
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Publisher
Plaza y Janes
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Saint Ambrose es la exclusiva escuela donde han estudiado los varones adinerados del lugar desde hace mas de un siglo. Y este curso admitira por primera vez alumnado femenino en un entorno que parece idilico, pero que en realidad oculta problemas familiares, inseguridades y soledad. Una faceta oscura de la vida en el internado sale a la luz cuando, tras una fiesta, una estudiante acaba en el hospital inconsciente. Quienes saben lo que paso han decidido...
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Set in the upscale DC private school scene, where silence can easily be bought, Aggie Blum Thompson's All the Dirty Secrets asks how far you would go to protect your status and your family, and if some secrets should ever be revealed. One warm summer night twenty-five years ago, Liza Gold and her friends celebrated their high school graduation with a party on the beach. It should have been the best night of their lives, only one of them never came...
18) The schoolhouse
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Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the Booker Prize-longlisted author of Love and Other Thought Experiments comes a masterful and gripping thriller about truth, silence, and the weight of the past. Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby library. She feels safe, so long as she keeps to her routines and doesn’t let her thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher...
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the renowned president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a coming-of-age tale of privilege and hidden sexuality at a New England boys' boarding school. Sam has spent more than half his life at the prestigious Leverett high school, which lies at the heart of an affluent Connecticut town of the same name. First as a student in the late 1960s, before coeducation, then as an English teacher after Harvard and Oxford, he developed a keen sense of loyalty...
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English
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"When an anonymous neighborhood forum gets hacked, the darkest secrets of New York's wealthiest residents come to light-including some worth killing for-in this gripping suspense novel from the author of Just One Look. It was all confidential. Right up tothe moment when it wasn't. UrbanMyth: It was lauded as an alternative to the performative, show-your-best-self platforms-an anonymous discussion board grouped by zip code. The residents of Manhattan's...
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