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Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate . . . and as he probes the recent ideological unrest, he soon comes to realize...
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Avalon Bay volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Mackenzie Cabot has spent most of her twenty years pleasing the other people around her so she is going to Garnet College in the expensive beachside town of Avalon Bay in South Carolina when she would really rather focus on her growing internet business; Cooper Hartley is a local boy who usually tends bar and disdains the rich, spoiled college kids he sees every day--but MacKenzie and Cooper fall for each other, until money and family come between...
3) Hell bent
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Series
Alex Stern volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Stuck in a bus full of strangers, mother-and-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their carefully mapped-out college tour devolve into something they never expected in this hilarious and insightful new novel from the author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. Jessica and Emily have very different ideas of how this college tour should go. For Emily, it's a last-ditch effort to get excited about her future, because every day in the present...
5) Begin again
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
College freshman Andie is used to fixing other people's problems, but when her seemingly perfect plan for her future starts to crumble, Andie struggles to fix them and learns that the best-laid plans are not necessarily the right one
"As usual, Andie Rose has a plan: Transfer from community college to the hyper competitive Blue Ridge State, major in psychology, and maintain her lifelong goal of becoming an iconic self-help figure despite the nerves...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse has one of those faces. "I don't know why I'm telling you this," people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her, but she quickly realizes...
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Series
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Una guía práctica para todos aquellos padres que quieran ayudar a sus hijos a atravesar con éxito el complicado sistema educativo de Estados Unidos, analizado por una avezada periodista y madre de dos alumnas universitarias."--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Who Gets In and Why, journalist and higher education expert Jeffrey Selingo dispels entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions game, and reveals that teenagers and parents have much to gain by broadening their notion of what qualifies as a “good college.” Hint: it’s not all about the sticker on the car window. While many have long believed that admissions is merit-based, rewarding the best students, Who Gets In and Why...
11) Admission
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Language
English
Description
Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan must suddenly confront a secret from her past just as thousands of the nation's brightest students await her decision regarding their academic admission.
12) Admission
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"An affluent teen who thinks she is headed off to the college of her dreams, must reckon with the truth and possibly her own guilt when her mother is arrested in a college admissions bribery scandal"--
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Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In this third novel of the Anne of Green Gables series, Anne leaves Prince Edward Island for college and must deal with the changing worlds of herself and all her childhood friends.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What if you could take control of the admissions process, as you apply for your dream school, and do it in a way that's both effective and empowering? From filling out your extracurriculars to interviewing with admissions staff, it comes down to two questions: What matters most to you? How does it manifest in your life? The answers to these questions will fuel every aspect of your college admissions experience, and Ethan Sawyer (the College Essay...
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Series
Judy Moody volume 8
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An expose of the Varsity Blues scandal reveals how an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer preyed on the desperation of wealthy, upper class, insecure parents who sought to have their children admitted to elite colleges to maintain their own social status
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of the college admissions scandal that shocked the nation and shattered myths about meritocracy, by the reporters who broke major developments in the story that exposed a rotten system. The largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice broke on March 12, 2019, sending shock waves through American schools and families. In Unacceptable, veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz...
18) Pitch perfect 3
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
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.
19) Those who prey
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"College freshman Emily is seduced into joining a cult with deadly results"--
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Contains profiles of over 1,650 four-year colleges in the United States and Canada, each with contact data, and information on student life, housing, activities, sports, services, campus safety and security, programs of study, admissions, and financial aid.
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