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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
2nd rev. ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 382 p. 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Choosing the right college has never been more important—or more difficult. For the latest edition of this classic college guide, Hilary Masell Oswald conducted her own tours of top schools and in-depth interviews, building on Loren Pope's original to create a totally updated, more expansive work. Organized by geographic region, every profile includes a wealth of vital information, including admissions standards, distinguishing facts about the curriculum,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of PC culture. 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 someone winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate ... and he soon comes to realize he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy....
4) The Testing
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Picador ed.
Physical Desc
180 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A once brilliant math professor suffers the effects of a head trauma that erases his short term memory every eighty minutes and is repeatedly introduced to his housekeeper anew, but past equations in the professor's mind enable him to discover surprising connections.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From a highly regarded feminist, cultural critic, and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn't empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality.
7) Hell bent
Author
Series
Alex Stern volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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."--
8) Wrecked
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Offers a kaleidoscopic view of a sexual assault on a college campus that will leave readers thinking about how memory and identity, what's at stake, and who sits in judgment shape what we all decide to believe about the truth"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (1 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
xx, 266 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides an inside look at the admissions process at top-rated colleges--specifically those that accept thrity-five percent or less from their applicant pools--and offers advice for students on how to make their application stand out from the crowd.
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Now a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas, Cia Vale attempts to expose the ugly truth behind the government's grueling and deadly Testing, putting her and her loved ones in great danger.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The seemingly perfect Hawthorne family of northern California is tested by Ivy League ambitions, overscheduling, impossible expectations by the Bay Area elite, and difficult personal secrets.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
2022 edition.
Physical Desc
845 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A survey of life on the nation's campuses offers detailed profiles of the best colleges and rankings of colleges in dozens of different categories, along with a wealth of information and applications tips.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in My Head comes a deliciously entertaining enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about two high school nemeses who end up sharing a house together their first year of college Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone's birthdays, but also organizes the group present, pays for it, and politely chases others for their share. She's the helper, the doer, the maker-of...
17) John Woman
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition, first Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets...
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
2020 edition, 28th edition.
Physical Desc
843 pages ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A survey of life on the nation's campuses offers profiles of the best colleges and rankings of colleges in sixty-two different categories, along with application tips.
20) Begin again
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
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
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