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At a local university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. But highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate. As Virgil probes the recent ideological unrest, he quickly realizes he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally...
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"When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change. Or maybe not. Especially when that roommate is the cold and seemingly calculating Bridgette. Tensions run high and tempers flare as the two can hardly stand to be in the same room together. But Warren has a theory about Bridgette: anyone who can hate with that much passion should also have the capability to love with that much passion....
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Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance...
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Avalon Bay volume 1
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2022.
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English
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Mackenzie Cabot has spent most of her life pleasing the other people around her. When she goes to Garnet College in the expensive beachside town of Avalon Bay in South Carolina, she would really rather focus on her growing internet business. Cooper Hartley is a local boy who usually tends bar and disdains the rich, spoiled college kids he sees every day. At first Mac sees Cooper as a threat to her ordered existence. But as Mac starts feeling accepted...
7) Hell bent
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Alex Stern volume 2
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"Wealth. Power, Murder, Magic, Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Alex is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory, even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Alex and Dawes can't call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and artifacts to uncover the societies' secrets and break every rule doing it. But...
8) John Woman
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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...
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"She was know to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by almost eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law...
10) Legendborn
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Legendborn volume 1
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2020.
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"To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights"--
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Boxcar children volume 137
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When the Aldens visit a university campus, they must solve a mystery involving an old library whose stone gargoyles seem to move on their own.
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Gravitas Ventures
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2021.
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English
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Two LGBTQ alumni follow a handful of LGBTQ and SAME-SEX ATTRACTED students at LDS-owned Brigham Young University as rumors of a potential relationship between the administration and the school's unofficial student GSA spread around campus.
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2023.
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"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...
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Anne of Green Gables volume 3
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Eighteen-year-old Anne leaves home to go to college in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, and finds her life expanding in many different ways, including a marriage proposal, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson.
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Giant Interactive
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2020.
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English
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Each year 3 million high school students in the U.S. take an SAT or ACT college entrance exam. For decades there have been questions about what exactly these tests measure and how predictive they are of academic promise or success.
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Judy Moody volume 8
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English
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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.
18) Some Freaks
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Good Deed Entertainment
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2020.
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English
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A charming romance develops between a boy with one eye and an overweight girl, though when she loses her weight after going to college, their relationship is tested in devastating ways they never dreamed would happen. *"What seems like an ordinary teenage comedy about cliques and bullying on the surface is actually a modestly perceptive and touching glimpse into the ways in which we transition from adolescence into adulthood." - Todd Jorgenson, **Cinemalogue***...
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Sourcebooks
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[2020]
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English
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"What if you could take control of the admissions process, as you apply for your dream school, and do it in a way that's both effective and empowering? From filling out your extracurriculars to interviewing with admissions staff, it comes down to two questions: What matters most to you? How does it manifest in your life? The answers to these questions will fuel every aspect of your college admissions experience, and Ethan Sawyer (the College Essay...
20) Flubber
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
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[1997]
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English
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Professor Brainard (Williams) discovers a miraculous elastic goo - Flubber - that when aplied to anything makes it bounce super high and fast. Will this 'goo' enable the professor to re-win his fiance and save his financially strapped college?
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