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1) We are okay
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After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.
Pub. Date
2015
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1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A sharp and funny comedy about a group of African-American students as they navigate campus life and racial boundaries at a predominately white college. A sly, provocative satire about being a black face in a white place.
3) Swim team
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Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees--until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain, is willing to help.
4) Night school
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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After losing his job as a successful salesman, Teddy finds he must go back to school to try to get his GED.
6) Easy A
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in 'The Scarlet Letter, ' which she is currently studying in school. Hoping to become popular, she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.
8) Giant days
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Series
Giant days volume 13
Publisher
Boom! Box
Pub. Date
2015-
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 cm
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"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,...
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Two teenage boys are missing and their disappearance may be linked to a shady fertility clinic Peter Kelly and Lily Madison visited in college as penniless students. When Pete and Lily learn that one of the missing boys looks exactly like Pete, they set out to discover what really went on at the clinic all those years ago.
10) Host
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Devastated by the death of her boyfriend after a routine surgery, fourth-year medical student Lynn Pierce investigates the accident and discovers a string of suspicious deaths at the hospital.
11) At first light
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a high school senior has an encounter with mysterious lights that appear over her small town, she soon develops dangerous, supernatural abilities.
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In September 1949 Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad. She’s twenty years old, socially poised but financially precarious, and all too aware of her mother’s expectations that she make a brilliant match. Before relenting to family pressure, she has one year to herself far away from sleepy Vassar College and the rigid social circles of New York, a year to explore and absorb the luminous beauty of the City...
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Spy school volume 10
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Superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley races against time and across state lines - traveling by car, train, boat and plane - to track Murray Hill down before Ben's cyber enemies can find him.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
ix, 388 pages ; 25 cm
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"When Lizet-the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school-secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she's set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Leidy-Lizet's older sister, a brand-new single mom-without a steady income and scrambling for a...
Pub. Date
[2015]
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A uniquely funny and moving story about Greg, a high school senior who avoids deep human relationships as a way to safely navigate the social mine field that is teenage life. In fact, he describes his best friend Earl, with whom he makes short-film parodies of classic movies, as being one more like a co-worker'. But when Greg's mom insists he spends time with Rachel, a girl in his class who has just been diagnosed with cancer, Greg discovers just...
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
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Lulu goes into denial mode about her role in an out-of-control party during Ramadan, except this time she's done more damage than she realizes, forcing her to repair friendships and family alliances, while coming to terms with her true self.
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Gifty is a sixth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even...
20) Rust Creek
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While driving to a job interview, a young woman makes a wrong turn and finds herself lost in the woods where she has to fight for survival against the elements and a band of outlaws.
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