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1) The bell jar
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Everyman's library volume 212
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche...
2) The idiot
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary....
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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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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a gripping psychological novel of obsession and consequence.
When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history...
When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history...
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"Detective Manon Bradshaw is 39, single, and miserable as sin. She has endured some of the worst dates in internet history. But she loves her job and performs it brilliantly; all she needs to rise up in the ranks is a big break. Edith Hind is a gorgeous, intrepid graduate student at Cambridge University who seems to have it all: a doting boyfriend, a devoted friend named Helena, a loving mother and a father who is a surgeon to the Royal Family. When...
6) Ninth house
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Series
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...
7) Find her
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Language
English
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"Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who's never stopped loving her, a brother who is...
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Series
Reeve LeClaire novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint's victim. Not anymore-not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after four years of captivity. Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit, performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals. It seems that he is still suffering the effects of the head injury he suffered in the car crash...
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Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont University's privileged elite, she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different and the exotic allure of her innocence.
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Publisher
Prufrock Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This first-person perspective of a young woman who recently experienced her freshman year shows, in a humorous, tongue-in-cheek manner, what to expect during the first year of college, including tips and tricks for surviving college life.
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Language
English
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Offered a fantastic job in a rising star's political campaign on condition that she will work abroad and return to Washington after spending a dream year at Oxford, Ella clashes with, and then falls for, an outspoken literature professor with a life-changing secret that forces her to rethink her ambitions.
Set amidst the breathtaking beauty of Oxford, this sparkling debut novel tells the unforgettable story about a determined young woman eager to...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Draws on research at college and university campuses to explore the topics of sex, consent, and sexual assault, discussing statistics about the prevalence of campus rape, and offering advice on how to make college a safer experience.
16) The bookstore
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Brilliant, idealistic Esme Garland moves to Manhattan armed with a prestigious scholarship at Columbia University. When Mitchell van Leuven, a New Yorker with the bluest of blue New York blood, captures her heart with his stunning good looks and a penchant for all things erotic, life seems truly glorious, until a thin blue line signals a wrinkle in Esme{u2019}s tidy plan. Before she has a chance to tell Mitchell about her pregnancy, he suddenly declares...
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ro*co Films Educational
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An exposé of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the films follows survivors as they pursue their education while fighting for justice--despite harsh retaliation, harassment and pushback at every level.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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A mixed-heritage dancer's coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother's descent into addiction, and her father's efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.
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Series
Giant days volume 14
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"THE END IS HERE! KINDA! Return to Sheffield one last time as Daisy and Esther are about to graduate - with Susan there to cheer them on! But it's not goodbye, because one year later Daisy and Susan must join forces to save Esther from the head girls who're making her life hell! And then it really might just be goodbye..."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Giant days volume 13
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Everything's going fine for Esther - she's only dealing with a past break up, facing her own mortality and the pressure of an essay contest that could change her life. Don't worry, she's got everything figured out... except for the getting everything figured out part. Otherwise she's not racing towards imminent disaster. But for McGraw, the tough realities of life hit hard as he learns about the loss of someone close to him and has to find a way...
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