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Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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As a senior in high school Quentin Coldwater became preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. After graduating from college and being admitted into a highly exclusive, secret society of magic in upstate New York, he makes a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin's fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined for his childhood dream...
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Fifty shades trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Originally published: Waxahachie, Tex. : Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House, 2011.
When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind -- until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.
6) Invisible
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life.
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English
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"Contrary to popular belief, best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker are not codependent. Carpooling to and from theater rehearsals? Environmentally sound and efficient. Consulting each other on every single life decision? Basic good judgment. Pining for the same guys from afar? Shared crushes are more fun anyway. But when Kate and Andy's latest long-distance crush shows up at their school, everything goes off-script. Matt Olsson is talented...
8) Hell bent
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Alex Stern volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Galaxy 'Alex' Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell--even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren't just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if Alex is going to survive, she'll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university's very walls."--
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Kepesh novels volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2001
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156 p. ; 20 cm.
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English
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David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder.
Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an "emancipated manhood," beyond the...
Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an "emancipated manhood," beyond the...
10) Commencement
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
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324 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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A tender story of friendship, a witty take on liberal arts colleges, and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose.
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Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c1988
Edition
1st ed.
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297 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Now reissued, Michael Chabon's "New York Times" bestselling first novel is a funny, tender coming-of-age novel that introduces readers to Art Bechstein, a Holden Caulfield for the post-Boomer/pre-Gen X-er generation. Chabon's first novel was universally lauded as the arrival of a rare and remarkable new literary talent who has proved to be one of our most profound and original writers.
12) A separate peace
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English
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Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.
13) The executor
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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A grad student meets his intellectual match and seals his dark fate when he responds to a newspaper ad seeking a conversationalist.
14) The river king
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts has been divided, as if by a line drawn down the center of Main Street, separating those born and bred in the village from those who attend the prestigious Haddan School. But one October night the two worlds are thrust together due to an inexplicable death, and the town's divided history is revealed in all its complexity.
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Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
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x, 368 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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What started out as a bike ride on the back roads of Vermont for college sophomore Laurel Estabrook became a life changing outing after she was attacked. Withdrawing into her photography, she began working at a homeless shelter where she met Bobbi Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box full of photos he wouldn't let anyone see. Only after his death was his real identity known and a deeply hidden, dark family secret revealed, which...
16) Nano
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Series
Pia Grazdani volume 2
Language
English
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Taking a year off from her medical studies and leaving New York City, Pia Grazdani accepts a job at Nanobots, a nanotechnology institute, where she is quickly warned not to investigate the other work done at the facility and not to ask questions about their source of funding.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
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274 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Bec, a Wisconsin college student who is beginning to question her future, applies for a summer job as caretaker for Kate Norris, a mid-thirties woman paralyzed by ALS, and her friendship with Kate soon comes to transcend everything else in her life.
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English
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"At school, Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, a star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers--one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found...
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League of extraordinary women novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics...
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Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Back in their college days, Gretchen had been engaged to a top law student. Carol, head cheerleader, had said yes to the school's football hero. And Maddie was the girl who'd fallen for a professor. Now at their fifteen-year class reunion the three of them share their stories of betrayal and, yes, revenge. Stories of finding new love and realizing that sometimes unplanned things are the best!
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