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Author
Series
Ivy chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Three Ivy League suite-mates testing their boundaries as they seek higher knowledge of just how far they can go.
Author
Series
Torn volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In K.A. Robinson's USA Today bestselling debut novel, Torn, Chloe hasn't had the easiest childhood. With a mother who was absent most of the time, she practically had to raise herself. Determined to start a new life and leave her demons behind, she heads to West Virginia University with her best friends Amber and Logan. On the first day of classes, she spots a student who takes her breath away. Drake is a pierced, tattooed bad boy, and no matter how...
143) Spring breakers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Four frustrated college girlfriends plot to fund their best spring break ever by burglarizing a fast-food shack. But that's only the beginning: during a night of partying, the girls get arrested. Hung over and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge and get bailed out unexpectedly by Alien, an infamous local dealer who takes them on the wildest spring-break trip in history.
144) Thelma
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A shy young student leaves her small town and religious family to study at a university in Oslo, but once on campus she experiences what appears to be a violent, unexpected seizure. Overwhelmed by the increasing intensity of the mystifying episodes and her powerful feelings for a beautiful classmate, she struggles to control her supernatural abilities.
145) Dear Wendy
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Sophie Chi is in her first year of college (though her parents wish she'd attend a 'real' university rather than a liberal arts school) and has long accepted her aroace (aromantic and asexual) identity. She knows she’ll never fall in love, but she enjoys running an Instagram account that offers relationship advice to students at her school. No one except her roommate can know that she’s behind the incredibly popular 'Dear Wendy' account. When...
146) Giant days
Author
Series
Giant days volume 7
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Description
"Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther,...
147) When I came West
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"As a young college student in the early 1970s, Laurie Wagner had never camped out, never gone hiking, and never lived without electricity or indoor plumbing. Yet she walked away from these comforts and headed for the wildest reaches of Montana to live with a man she had not met in person." "When I Came west is Laurie Wagner Buyer's account of her terrifying and exhilarating years in Montana as she changes from a girl too squeamish to touch a dead...
148) Old bones
Author
Series
Sarah Alt novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black women's institution, are assaulted by rifle fire from a passing vehicle. On her way to interview witnesses, Detective Sarah 'Salt' Alt confronts the fleeing vehicle of the suspects, but they get away ... While other detectives take the lead on the Spelman murders, Salt is tasked to investigate the case of a recently discovered decomposed body. When she combs...
149) Hostel: Part II
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Set in and around a Slovakian factory, European students are kidnapped, tortured, and killed by rich businessmen who pay enormous amounts of money to experience death firsthand. All tattooed with a bulldog insignia, an international elite, bid on young people to slaughter in a trade catering to those with a death fetish. Three girls from studying in Rome, Beth, Whitney and and Lorna, are lured to Slovakia by a sultry European woman who modeled for...
150) Una educación
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la escuela o acuden al médico cuando enferman. Todos...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Appears on list
Description
Loosely based on the author's own life, Nada is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona.
Basado libremente en la propia vida del autor, Nada es la historia de una joven huerfana que deja su pequeno pueblo para asistir a la universidad en la guerra-devastado Barcelona.
152) The rug merchant
Author
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
Serving wealthy clients in New York's Upper East Side, Iranian Ushman Khan is shattered when his wife back home leaves him for another man, an event after which he embarks on a romance with a Barnard college student.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"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,...
Author
Series
Giant days volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, zpersonal experimentation,y holiday balls, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of zacademia,y they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"More than two decades after dropping out of school, Alice Washington rebounds from a divorce by enrolling in Smith College to fulfill her dream of becoming a teacher. A housing shortage places her with a much younger roommate, rebellious piano student Zoe, who thinks she has enough difficulty in her life already. Their school year together promises lots of major life changes including a glamorous makeover, a romantic rivalry over their charming poetry...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Appears on list
Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
159) First daughter
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Samantha Mackenzie is a sheltered young woman who has everything she could possibly wish for and lives in a beautiful white house. The White House, that is. Samantha just wants a normal college experience away from the influence of her parents. Only trouble is, her dad is the President of the United States. Nothing will stop her, so, under Secret Service surveillance and the nonstop glare of the media, Samantha meets and falls for a handsome college...