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82) Twilight pariah
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
All Maggie, Russell, and Henry wanted out of their last college vacation was to get drunk and play archaeologist in an old house in the woods outside of town. When they excavate the mansion's outhouse they find way more than they bargained for: a sealed bottle filled with a red liquid, along with the bizarre skeleton of a horned child.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
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Description
"'When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me.' And so we are introduced to our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose charismatic husband at the same small liberal arts college is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extra-marital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
While on an extended break from college, Cassie Coblenz returns home to her grandparents' Amish farm where she meets handsome English doctor Zach Reynolds, who she is determined to avoid, but Zach is determined to become a man worthy of her love.
Author
Language
English
Description
A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father's murder. Victor Li is devastated by his father's murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father's things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur, in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China's leanest communist...
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Language
English
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Description
it's 1985, and at Oxford University, Pimm's, punting, and ball gowns are de rigeur. Ursula Flowerbutton, a studious country girl, arrives for her first term anticipating nothing more sinister than days spent poring over history books in gilded libraries, and, if she's lucky, an invitation to a ball. But when she discovers a glamorous classmate on a chaise longue with her throat cut, Ursula is catapulted into a murder investigation.
87) Heartbreak hotel
Author
Language
English
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Description
Maggie Deloach, a senior at Alabama's Randolph University, comes of age in 1956 with the help of Hoyt Cunningham, an AP reporter with revolutionary leanings, and Aiken Reed, a sexually advanced Northerner.
88) Girl abroad
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When nineteen-year-old Abbey Bly gets the opportunity to study abroad for a year in London, it's the perfect chance to finally slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing retired rock star father. She's ready to be free, to discover herself--but first off, to meet the girls she's rooming with. That is, until she arrives at her gorgeous new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys. Charming, funny, insufferably attractive...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Fiercely independent Camille "Cami" Camlin gladly moved on from her childhood before it was over. She has held down a job since before she could drive, and moved into her own apartment after her freshman year of college. Now tending bar at The Red Door, Cami doesn't have time for much else besides work and classes, until a trip to see her boyfriend is cancelled, leaving her with a first weekend off in almost a year. Trenton Maddox was the king of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The author of the New York Times bestseller Island of Lost Girls, Jennifer McMahon returns with Dismantled-a stunning and chilling thriller that further burnishes her reputation as one of the brightest new stars of literary suspense. Expect comparisons to The Secret History. Readers of Laura Lippman, Tana French, and Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones will not be able to shake this breathtaking tale of the dark consequences of a group of college friends'...
91) The truants
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
People disappear when they most want to be seen. Jess Walker has come to a concrete campus under the flat grey skies of East Anglia for one reason: To be taught by the mesmerizing and rebellious Dr Lorna Clay, whose seminars soon transform Jess's thinking on life, love, and Agatha Christie. Swept up in Lorna's thrall, Jess falls in with a tightly-knit group of rule-breakers--Alec, a courageous South African journalist with a nihilistic streak; Georgie,...
92) The dark circle
Author
Series
Jake Cantrell mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Newly unemployed, ex-army officer Jake Cantrell takes on a missing person case, searching for college student Deborah Chapman. In the process he must face street gangs, ravages of an opioid epidemic, and an enigmatic group called the Knights.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Since childhood, Anita Hemmings has longed to attend the country's most exclusive school for women, Vassar College. Now, a bright, beautiful senior in the class of 1897, she is hiding a secret that would have banned her from admission: Anita is the only African-American student ever to attend Vassar. With her olive complexion and dark hair, this daughter of a janitor and descendant of slaves has successfully passed as white, but now finds herself...
96) Choose me
Author
Language
English
Description
"Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant, so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene of the girl's fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there's more to the story... To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate fantasy: intelligent, adoring, and completely off limits. But there was also a dark side to Taryn, a dangerous streak that threatened those she turned her affections...
97) Loner
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, a propulsive literary novel about sexual obsession in which a meek Harvard freshman becomes dangerously infatuated with a classmate. David Federman has never felt appreciated. One of the most painfully forgettable members of his New Jersey high school class--yet the only one accepted to Harvard--shy, witty David arrives in Cambridge fully expecting to embrace, and be welcomed by, a new tribe of like-minded...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by two of the most beloved works by literary masters, All Men of Genius takes place in an alternate Steampunk Victorian London, where science makes the impossible possible.
Violet Adams wants to attend Illyria College, a widely renowned school for the most brilliant up-and-coming scientific minds, founded by the late Duke Illyria, the greatest scientist of the Victorian Age. The school is run by his son, Ernest, who has held to his father's...
99) Wildalone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A Princeton freshman is drawn into a love triangle with two enigmatic brothers and discovers terrifying secrets about her family and herself"--Book jacket.
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