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Alice McKinley. Main series volume 25
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
As Alice McKinley begins a new phase as a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, she experiences many changes, both expected and surprising, that lead her into a future her seventh-grade self could only have imagined.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul
Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea's most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores, went into twenty-six...
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My weirder school volume 8
Language
English
Description
A local college professor comes to Ella Mentry School to help students learn basic history and improve their scores on a standardized test, using some very unusual techniques.
6) Fangirl
Author
Series
Fangirl (Manga) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
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Cath struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words, and worrying about her fragile father.
"Los meses son diferentes en la universidad, especialmente el primer añ0. Suceden demasiadas cosas. Cada mes del primer año equivale a seis meses normales: son como meses de perros."--Back cover.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Leah Burke is an anomaly in her friend group: the only child of a young, single mom; her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she's bisexual, she hasn't mustered the courage to tell her friends-- not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. When her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways, it's hard for Leah to strike the right note. And with prom and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The best advice First Lady Barbara Bush offered her family, staff, and close friends"--
As a mother, Barbara Bush made sure we all knew that your children must come first, and one of the most important things you can do is to read to them. As a friend and mentor, she showed that you had to be true to yourself. Even at the end of her life, she taught us how to die with grace. Her advice ranged from what to wear, what to say or not say, and how to...
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English
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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"En esta humorística y aguda novela sobre las complejidades del lenguaje y aprender sobre nuevas culturas, Nancy, una estudiante universitaria americana, viaja a Sevilla para investigar para su tesis, la cual trata sobre la cultura gitana. Decidida a asimilarse a su nuevo entorno, Nancy aprende que hay muchos obstáculos lingüísticos y culturales a los que se deberá sobreponer. El lector disfrutará mientras Nancy lidia con una lengua y unas costumbres...
11) Compound murder
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"In Compound Murder, award-winning Bill Crider invites mystery fans on a new adventure with Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. Before classes start one morning, the body of English instructor Earl Wellington is found outside the building of the community college campus in Clearview. Wellington was clearly involved in a struggle with someone and has died as a result. Sheriff Dan Rhodes pursues and arrests a student, Ike Terrell, who was fleeing the campus....
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"How do we talk about Black history and racism in the United States on college campuses? In a series of essays, Professor Leonard Moore outlines how he has taught courses on African American history at colleges with a largely white student body. As an African American professor, he has had to find ways to teach to a diverse classroom, but one that is often dominated by white students with little prior knowledge of this history. Moore discusses how...
13) Chobits
Language
English
Description
If you've never experienced this unique, cute sci-fi romance about what it means to be human, now's your chance! One of the biggest hits from CLAMP, creators of xxxHOLiC and Magic Knight Rayearth, returns in a definitive, hardcover premium collector's edition, featuring a large size, premium paper, color pages, and more. After moving from the countryside into the big city, poor college student Hideki Motosuwa finds himself down on his luck. All he...
14) Kent State
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots are fired and four students are killed. To this day, there is still argument of what happened and why. Told in multiple voices from a number of vantage points ? protestor, Guardsman, townie, student ? Deborah Wiles's Kent State gives a moving, terrifying, galvanizing picture of what happened that weekend in Ohio ?an event that, even fifty years...
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Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In 1961, when Amazing Grace Jansen, a firecracker from Appalachia, meets Mary Elizabeth Cox, the daughter of a Black southern preacher, at Kentucky's Berea College, they already carry the scars and traces of their mothers' troubles. Poor and single, Maze's mother has had to raise her daughter alone and fight to keep a roof over their heads. Mary Elizabeth's mother has carried a shattering grief throughout her life, a loss so great that it has disabled...
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English
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Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated...
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English
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After moving to Colorado, deaf seventeen-year-old Maya is forced to attend a hearing school, where she must navigate a new life and prove that her lack of hearing will not stop her from pursuing her dreams. Includes an interview with the author.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Greg Harden changes lives. This is why hundreds of world-class athletes, doctors, lawyers, teachers, business leaders, college students, and professionals from all walks of life have come to him for advice and direction--including 7-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, 23-time Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps, Heisman Trophy winners Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson, CEOs of major companies, and championship coaching staffs from all over the world....
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This fully updated new edition teaches you exactly what they need to know, starting with taking a history and examination, before moving through specific conditions and their treatment. It includes new chapters on tropical ophthalmology, ocular oncology and giant cell arteritis, extra chapters on red eye and painful loss of vision and discussion of new scientific findings surrounding the cornea. Fully supported by a brand new companion website at...
20) Happy death day
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English
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A college student relives the day of her murder with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her killer's identity.
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