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1) Binti
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
3) Mudwoman
Author
Language
English
Description
M.R. Neukirchen--the first female president of a lauded Ivy League institution--struggles to hold onto her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons.
4) Straight man
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A comedy on university downsizing. To make sure the English department's budget is not cut, William Devereaux, its chairman, goes on TV threatening to kill a goose a day if that happens. Unfortunately a goose is beheaded soon after and Devereaux finds himself in hot water. The setting is Pennsylvania. By the author of Nobody's Fool.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A relationship develops between fiercely independent bartending college student Camille "Cami" Camlin and Big-Man-On-Campus- turned-tattoo-parlor-employee Trenton Maddox.
Tending bar at The Red Door, Cami doesn't have time for much besides work and classes. On her first weekend off in almost a year, she's sitting alone at a table at The Red when Trenton walks in. He left campus after an accident left him with crushing guilt, and now lives at home...
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
College student Claire Danvers struggles to remain neutral in the growing conflict between the vampires and humans of Morganville, which is further complicated by the arrival of a ghost-seeking television production crew.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnapper's tale.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
All Susannah Simon wants is to make a good impression at her first job since graduating from college (and since becoming engaged to Dr. Jesse de Silva). But when she's hired as a guidance counselor at her alma mater, she stumbles across a decade-old murder, and soon ancient history isn't all that's coming back to haunt her. Old ghosts as well as new ones are coming out of the woodwork, some to test her, some to vex her, and it isn't only because she's...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The first woman president of an elite progressive college responds to student protests about a popular professor's tenure denial before the group's controversial leader emerges and shocking acts of vandalism begin to destabilize the campus.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
College freshman and psychology major, Leigh Nolan, finds her problem-solving skills woefully inadequate when it comes to her increasingly tangled and complicated romantic relationships.
11) We happy few
Author
Series
Publisher
Arte Publico Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Faculty, staff, and students battle for the future of the university as racism, the politics of tenure, a search for a top administrator, and student protests add to the chaos at Belken State University in the Texas-Mexico border town Klail City Texas.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Starring the brilliant but bumbling Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs is a wonderfully entertaining showcase for [Alexander McCall] Smith's award-winning wit. Invited to lecture in America, von Igelfeld envisions a visit to California or New York. Instead, he finds himself surrounded by hogs" -- description.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Von Igelfeld is quite pleased with his role as a visiting scholar at Cambridge, even if his English colleagues can be difficult to comprehend. They frequently speak in metaphors and make peculiar assumptions, saying such odd things as "I take it your journey went well," when that is not the case at all. But von Igelfeld settles in the best he can, and is soon deeply embroiled in some shady political scheming at the university. After returning to the...
14) The Testing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Midwestern teen Emily Woods plunges into the glamorous but grueling world of modeling. But Emily is more than just a small-town beauty with stars in her eyes. She's also a freshman at Columbia University who's not about to let couture and klieg lights get in the way of an Ivy League education. Thus begins Emily's double life: cramming for a final at a swimsuit shoot in the Caribbean; gaining the freshman fifteen at the expense of fitting into designer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Createspace
Pub. Date
2012].
Language
English
Description
After surviving their encounters with vampires and other supernatural creatures at VanCamp University, Taylor and her friends must face the real dangers of college: homework, parties, new roommates, and first dates. Nothing for Taylor is ever quite that simple though, as she is drawn into the mystery of a park with magical secrets just as she is trying to live a normal freshman life with an overprotective roommate. As she grows closer to her new friends,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Can you love someone too much? Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder. His life is full of fast women, underground gambling, and violence. But just when he thinks he is invincible, Abby Abernathy brings him to his knees.
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