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161) Rent a boyfriend
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chloe Wang is nervous to introduce her parents to her boyfriend, because the truth is, she hasn't met him yet either. She hired him from Rent for Your 'Rents, a company specializing in providing fake boyfriends trained to impress even the most traditional Asian parents. Drew Chan's passion is art, but after his parents cut him off for dropping out of college to pursue his dreams, he became a Rent for Your 'Rents employee to keep a roof over his head....
162) Every body looking
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In this novel in verse, 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.
163) Larry Crowne
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher. Now this simple guy will discover that when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might find your reason to live.
164) They never learn
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she's even better at getting away with murder. Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she's avoided drawing attention to herself - but as she's preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Scarlett insinuates...
165) My friends: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words - and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa - Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is light years away from the world he knew...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and insight to the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into the complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak...
167) No exit: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.
Desperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm . . . and makes a horrifying discovery. In the back of the van parked...
168) She gets the girl
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
She's All That meets What If It's Us in this New York Times bestselling hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from the coauthor of Five Feet Apart Rachael Lippincott and debut writer Alyson Derrick.
Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. Keeping her on the other hand...not so much. Molly Parker has everything in her life totally...
Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. Keeping her on the other hand...not so much. Molly Parker has everything in her life totally...
169) The social network
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal...
170) Banned book club
Author
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
192 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The gripping true story of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime in the early 1980s, and how she defied state censorship through the rebellion of reading.
171) Loveboat reunion
Author
Series
Loveboat volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After their disastrous summer in Taipei, Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh must come together once more to help each other pursue the futures they want.
Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh have what some would call a tumultuous past, but at least they're friends now. They left the drama behind them at the summer program in Taipei. Sophie is determined to be the best student Dartmouth's ever had. Xavier just wants to stay under his overbearing father's radar, collect...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited eighteen "Negro" boys as an experiment, an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent Garrett, began to reconnect with his classmates...
173) Anesthesia
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on his way home one evening, Walter Zarrow, a popular Columbia University philosophy professor, is violently attacked on the street. Flashing back one week to the beginning of a domino effect of events that led up to this seemingly senseless assault, the film traces hidden connections between an apparently disparate group of people.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome...
175) It's criminal
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Two worlds collide when Dartmouth College students meet with incarcerated women at a local jail in this transformational documentary about privilege, poverty, and injustice. IT'S CRIMINAL highlights the wide economic and social inequality that divides the United States and offers a unique window into how two groups of women break down barriers and learn to speak to each other.
Author
Publisher
Loch Lomond Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2003
Physical Desc
iii, 207 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
They say, "If you can remember the Sixties, you probably weren't there." Happily, Dougie MacKenzie recalls those zonked and zany times and brings them hilariously back to life in his regaling memoir, Mango Lassie. MacKenzie reveals himself as a preadolescent trapped in the "rat" system of a Southern military school. From an abyss of despair following the death of his brother, the disaffected teen finds solace in the arms of two girls he meets in France...
177) An acceptable time
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 5
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
178) The sorority murder
Author
Series
Regan Merritt novels volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Vega is obsessed with the death of Candace Swain, who left a sorority party one night and never came back. Her body was found a week after she disappeared, but the case has grown cold. Three years later while interning at the medical examiner's, Lucas discovers new information, but the police are not interested. Lucas knows he has several credible pieces of the puzzle. He just isn't sure how they fit together. So he creates a podcast to revisit...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
246 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Mythology class friends thought they were safe from the Dark Anitos, but now the evil Budniaan has arrived in their world with his army of zombie warriors and demented engkantos demons, and their lives are once again at stake. With Rey and Misha on the other side of the globe and the group at odds over what to do, the one course they can all agree on is the inevitable one--reunite and combine their strengths to thwart Budiaan's threat. Revisiting...
180) Project Nought
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Ren Mittal's last memory in the year 1996 is getting on a bus to visit his mystery pen pal Georgia. When he wakes up in 2122, he thinks he might be hallucinating... he's not! Tech conglomerate Chronotech sponsors a time-travel program to help students in 2122 learn what history was really like... from real-life subjects who've been transported into the future... and Ren is one of them. In 2122, Ren's life in the 1990s is practically ancient history--and...
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