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1) Admission
Author
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known (adapted as The Undoing on HBO), comes a page-turner about a college admissions officer with a secret—now a major motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.
For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic...
For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of PC culture. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then someone winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate...and he soon comes to realize he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy. Among...
Author
Series
Testing volume 2
Lexile measure
HL 840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas, Cia Vale's attempts to expose the ugly truth behind the government's grueling and deadly Testing put her and her loved ones in great danger.
5) The examiner
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"University professor Gela Nathaniel must make her new master's program in multimedia art succeed. If it doesn't, then Royal Hastings University will cut her funding and she'll be out of the job she loves. The six students in this inaugural course will be key to that success...but how well has she selected the team? The students include a talented young sculptor who is determined to graduate with top grades, a former gallery owner with limited artistic...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Rowan and Neil, in a committed long-distance relationship while attending different colleges in Boston and New York City, face the challenges of navigating the first months of college life and personal struggles as they strive to make their relationship last.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 400 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, detailing its evolution from a Presbyterian secondary school in frontier St. Paul to a nationally prominent liberal arts college. Highlights influential leaders and defining moments in the school's history, and examines the school's transition from an evangelical college into a progressive, secular institution and the relationship between religion and education during the twentieth...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First e-book edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (287 pages)
Language
English
Description
Four 1974 Barrett College graduates reunite in 1994 to take on a quest to find out what happened to the college's stolen Sirena statue and hopefully win a million-dollar prize from a billionaire alumni.
9) John Woman
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
10) The rival
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2025.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At long last, Sadie has vanquished her lifelong academic rival--her irritatingly charming, whip smart next door neighbor, Seb--by getting the coveted, only spot to her dream college. Or at least, so she thinks. When Seb is unexpectedly pulled off the waitlist and admitted, Sadie has to compete with him all over again, this time to get a spot on the school's famous zine. Now not only is she dealing with the mayhem of the lovable, chaotic family she...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Rep and Melissa Pennyworth combine their skills to stay above the fray on two separate cases--one involving a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee frat boy Rep thinks is innocent of a piracy accusation, and another involving a spat between Melissa's colleagues that escalates into murder.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Judy Moody has to start working with a math tutor, which puts her in a mad-i-tude. Does this mean flash cards? School on weekends? Then Judy meets her tutor, an uber-cool college student, and gets a taste of campus life. Say hello to Judy "Ms. College" Moody!
13) Hell bent
Author
Series
Alex Stern volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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 something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if Alex is going to survive, she'll have to reckon...
14) Admission
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
15) Dear Manny
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2025]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jared Peter Christensen is running for president (of the Junior Class Council at his university, but still). His platform is solid--built on increased equity and inclusion in all sectors of campus life--and he's got a good chance of beating the deeply conservative business major he's running against. But then a transfer student enters the race and calls Jared out for his big-talk/little-action way of moving. But what's the right way to bring about...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
When Baroness Troutbeck decides to visit to an Indiana university, she is unaware of the American preoccupation with political correctness. Soon a murder takes her mind off her annoyances and she is joined by Amiss in a search for the killer.
17) Pitch perfect 2
Publisher
Universal Studios Canada
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Barden Bellas are back to pitch slap the world. It's been three years since the Bellas brought their signature vocals, style and attitude to become the first all-female group to win a national title. But when they get banned after a scandal that threatens to derail their last year at Barden, the three-time defending champs worry that this time they've lost their harmony for good. The Bellas must fight for their right to win the World Championships...
18) Tiger's quest
Author
Series
Tiger's curse volume 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
Kelsey returns home to Oregon, where Mr. Kadam has enrolled her in college, but danger sends her back to India to begin another quest, this time with Kishan, to try to break the curse that forces Kisham and his brother Ren to live as tigers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For a few beautiful months, Wes had his dream girl: strong-willed girl-next-door Liz. But right as the two were about to set off to UCLA to start their freshman year together, tragedy struck. Wes was left dealing with the fallout, which ultimately meant losing Liz in the process. Flash forward months and months later and Wes and Liz find themselves in college, together. In a healthier place now, Wes knows he broke Liz's heart when he ended things,...
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Language
English
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"'You must work twice as hard to get half as much.' Adina Walker has known this the entire time she's been on scholarship at the prestigious Edgewater Academy--a school for the rich (and mostly white) upper class of New England. It's why she works so hard to be perfect and above reproach, no matter what she must force beneath the surface. Even one slip can cost you everything. And it does. One fight, one moment of lost control, leaves Adina blacklisted...