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61) Rush
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English
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Cali Watkins possesses all the qualities sororities are looking for in a potential new member. She's kind and intelligent, makes friends easily, even plans to someday run for governor. But her resume lacks a vital ingredient. Pedigree. Without family money Cali's chances of sorority membership are already thin, but she has an even bigger problem. If anyone discovers the dark family secrets she's hiding, she'll be dropped from Rush in an instant. When...
63) Superior women
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Language
English
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Follows the lives of five women, from their first meeting during freshman orientation week at Radcliffe in 1943 until 1983.
64) After the rice
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Megan Ismore's bungalow isn't big enough to house her problems, or her relatives.
Married just ten months, Megan's life with Matt would be grand if it weren't for a fast-growing secret she can't bear to share. As if that weren't enough, she's dealing with Matt's belching Uncle Tony, who is residing on an air mattress in the basement, and her sister Andrea, a roving hippie, who is nesting on their couch. Plus, dueling mothers-in-law hell-bent on double-booking...
66) The little women
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In Katharine Weber's third novel, The Little Women, three adolescent sisters- Meg, Jo and Amy-are shocked when they discover their mother's affair, but are truly devastated by their father's apparently easy forgiveness of her. Shattered by their parents' failure to live up to the moral standards and values of the family, the two younger sisters leave New York (and their private school) and move to Meg's apartment in New Haven, where Meg is a junior...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Yellowjackets meets The Cloisters in this beguiling coming-of-age story about class, reinvention, and destiny, set against the backdrop of two mysterious deaths. Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale equestrian team. But when she comes back from her junior year abroad with newfound confidence, she finds that the group has been infiltrated by a mysterious intruder: Annelise Tattinger. A talented...
68) After the war
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English
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During the Depression, the Baird family moves from Connecticut to the small Southern town of Pinehill to find a simpler world for themselves.
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English
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"Cadence "Cady" Archer arrives on Harvard's campus searching for answers about her brother, a schizophrenic genius who leapt from his dorm room window the year before. Eric's brilliance overshadowed Cady growing up, but she worshipped and adored him--even as he became more unstable, retreating deeper into his secretive work on multidimensional spacetime and isolating himself from everyone around him. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cady's life,...
70) Iron flame
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Series
Empyrean ; 2
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English
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"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....
71) Adelaide Piper
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Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Beth Webb Hart delivers a compelling faith-based novel that highlights a small-town girl's coming-of-age journey through her college years. A precocious and idealistic poet, Adelaide Piper can't wait to escape her tiny, South Carolina mill town for the freedoms of a prestigious, far-away university. But she's unprepared for the party school reality that soon leaves her devastated, demoralized, and desolate. And then she remembers the "Jesus freak"...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"Arriving at Princeton for her freshman year, Thea Slavin finds herself alone, a stranger in a strange land. Away from her family and her Eastern European homeland for the first time, she struggles to adapt to unfamiliar American ways and the challenges of college life--including an enigmatic young man whose brooding good looks and murky past intrigue her. Falling into a romantic entanglement with Rhys and his equally handsome and mysterious brother,...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"During their senior year of college, Clare Michaels takes a spring break trip to Florida with Lee and two other girls. They're hoping for a few stories to share back at school-- but a string of bad choices leads to a horrific encounter. Lee offers herself up so that Clare can escape. Now Clare is trying to make amends for her momentary selfishness by taking care of Lee. As years pass and circumstances change, contact between Clare and Lee ebbs and...
77) Oral history
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
A curse laid on the inhabitants of Hoot Owl Holler follows each succeeding generation for a century, in a tale of love, murder, obsession, and betrayal set in Appalachia.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Two people brought together by a horrific act are united in a common cause by the powers of the Silver Box. The two join to protect humanity from destruction by an alien race, the Laz, hell-bent on regaining control over the Silver Box, the most destructive and powerful tool in the universe. The Silver Box will stop at nothing to prevent its former master from returning to being, even if it means finishing the earth itself" --
Two people struggle...
80) Fourth wing
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Series
The Empyrean ; 1
Language
English
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Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....
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