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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with...
2) Campusland
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A tumultuous and often hilarious first novel about one year of insanity at the Ivy-like Devon University, a blissful bubble of elite students and the adults at their mercy.
4) The score
Author
Series
Off-campus volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"A New York Times bestseller! Get ready for another binge-worthy romance from international bestselling author Elle Kennedy. He knows how to score, on and off the ice... Allie Hayes is in crisis mode. With graduation looming, she still doesn't have the first clue about what she's going to do after college. To make matters worse, she's nursing a broken heart thanks to the end of her longtime relationship. Wild rebound sex is definitely not the solution...
5) The play
Author
Series
Briar U volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"What I learned after last year's distractions cost my hockey team our entire season? No more screwing up. No more screwing, period. As the new team captain, I need a new philosophy: hockey and school now, women later. Which means that I, Hinter Davenport, am officially going celibate... no matter how hard that makes things. But there's nothing in the rulebook that says I can't be friends with a woman. And I won't lie - me new classmate demi Davis...
6) The dare
Author
Series
Briar U volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
College was supposed to be my chance to get over my ugly-duckling complex and spread my wings. Instead, I wound up in a sorority full of mean girls. I already have a hard time fitting in, so when my Kappa Chi sisters issue the challenge, I can't say no. The dare: seduce the hottest new hockey player in the junior class. Conor Edwards is a regular at Greek Row parties and in Greek Row sorority beds. He's the one you fall for before you learn that...
8) The chase
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Everyone says opposites attract. And they must be right, because there's no logical reason why I'm so drawn to Colin Fitzgerald. I don't usually go for tattoo-covered, video-gaming, hockey-playing nerd-jocks who think I'm flighty and superficial. His narrow view of me is the first strike against him. It doesn't help that he's buddy-buddy with my brother. And that his best friend has a crush on me. And that I just moved in with them. Oh, did I not...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Plumville, Georgia had an order to its way of life, and few ever upset it. Benjamin Drummond is heir to all Plumville had to offer--wealth, good looks, and a promising career as a future state judge. As a graduating senior at a local college, he's poised for success, if only he can keep his grades up. With the distractions of playing football, being in a fraternity, and having his pick of the women on campus, he has little incentive to study--until...
10) We wish you luck
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It doesn't take long for the students on Fielding campus to become obsessed with Hannah, Leslie and Jimmy. The three graduate students are mysterious, inaccessible, and brilliant. Leslie, glamorous and brash, has declared that she wants to write erotica and make millions. Hannah is quietly confident, loyal, elegantly beautiful, and the person they all want to be; and Jimmy is a haunted genius with no past. After Simone--young, bestselling author and...
Author
Series
After novels (Anna Todd) volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Good girl Tessa, just starting out in college, finds herself falling for bad boy Hardin, even though he continues to push her away.
12) The risk
Author
Series
Briar U volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone says I'm a bad girl. They're only partly right--I don't let fear rule me, and I certainly don't care what people think. But I draw the line at sleeping with the enemy. As the daughter of Briar's head hockey coach, I'd be vilified if I hooked up with a player from a rival team. And that's who Jake Connelly is. Harvard's star forward is arrogant, annoying, and too attractive for his own good. But fate is cruel--I require his help to secure...
13) After we fell
Author
Series
After novels (Anna Todd) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Book Three of the After series--now newly revised and expanded, Anna Todd's After fanfiction racked up 1 billion reads online and captivated readers across the globe. Experience the Internet's most talked-about book for yourself! Tessa and Hardin's love was complicated before. Now it's more confusing than ever. AFTER WE FELL...Life will never be the same. #HESSA Just as Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes. Revelations...
14) Ninth house
Author
Series
Alex Stern volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Galaxy 'Alex' Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for a murder he may not have committed, Oliver Marks describes his past as a Shakespearean actor in college whose rivalry with a castmate escalated in dangerous ways.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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Description
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil.
17) The goal
Author
Series
Off-campus volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
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Description
College senior Sabrina James does not plan to get involved with hockey player John Tucker, but when their one night of passion turns into something more, both Sabrina and John must rethink their future plans.
18) Before
Author
Series
After novels (Anna Todd) volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Recounts Hardin's first encounters with Tessa and their ensuing love affair that became a vortex pulling in everyone around them.
19) The resemblance
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Lauren Nossett's artfully written debut, The Resemblance is an exhilarating, atmospheric campus thriller reminiscent of The Secret History and The Likeness. Never betray the brotherhood. On a chilly November morning at the University of Georgia, a fraternity brother steps off a busy crosswalk and is struck dead by an oncoming car. More than a dozen witnesses all agree on two things: the driver looked identical to the victim, and he was smiling. Detective...
20) Bloody genius
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly ... At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. 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 a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil...
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