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2) The Honeys
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's genderfluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions--and expectations--of his politically-connected family. This includes attendance at the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where his...
4) Bloomability
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place within it.
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Series
Scholomance volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. El and her friends changed the nature of the Scholomance forever. But now that she is back in the real world, will the lessons she learned inside the school apply? Will her grandmother's prophecy come true, and El will spell the doom of all the enclaves forever? An enclave war is brewing, and El is about to learn the most significant lesson of all:...
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Language
English
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"In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school"-- Provided by publisher.
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding...
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Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
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With two sons of her own and twelve orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, Jo March couldn't be happier. But boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, even when they are being cared for by the warm and affectionate March family.
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Charlotte Holmes volume 1
Language
English
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.
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Series
Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption says "I know who killed him." Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder Squad--and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. "The Secret Place," a board where the girls at St. Kilda's School can pin up their secrets...
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English
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"Barnes & Noble Classics "pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Left penniless by the death of his improvident father, young Nicholas Nickleby assumes responsibility for his mother and sister and seeks help from his Scrooge-like Uncle Ralph. Instantly disliking Nicholas, Ralph sends him to teach in a school run by the stupidly sadistic Wackford...
11) The lying game
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her. At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game. They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End--until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of every plant ever grown. At St. Basil's, Henna is surrounded...
13) Vampire rising
Author
Series
Alex Van Helsing volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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At a boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex Van Helsing learns that vampires are real, that he has a natural ability to sense them, and that an agency called the Polidorium has been helping his family fight them since 1821.
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Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (ca. 9 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.
When a sex scandal breaks out at a New England boarding...
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Isla has had a crush on classmate Josh since their freshman year at the School of America in Paris, but after a chance encounter over the summer in Manhattan they return to France for their senior year where they are forced to confront challenges every young couple in love must face.
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 3
Language
English
Description
After another death, Stevie must navigate mysterious riddles and track down a missing David at the same time a massive storm forces her to confront a killer.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
19) Navigating Early
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"Odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters"--Provided by publisher.
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