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Author
Series
Kepesh novels volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
156 p. ; 20 cm.
5) Slicker
Author
Formats
Description
Raised with the privileges of her Manhattan family, Yale student Desiree flees an unpromising relationship to start over in a tiny Kansas community, where her efforts to fit in are challenged by her wariness of its very different culture and her growing feelings for the son of two aging hippies.
8) Commencement
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Celia, Bree, Sally, and April first meet as college freshmen and over a period of six years experience both happiness and disappointment as they find fulfilling love relationships, deal with changes within their families, and pursue successful careers.
9) Either/or
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 25 cm
Description
During her sophomore year at Harvard, Selin's quest for self-knowledge leads to certain conclusions about the universal importance of parties, alcohol and sex and is determined to participate no matter the cost.
12) Toad
Author
Publisher
MCD
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 338 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
This previously unpublished novel from cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love, follows Sally Gunnar, a reclusive woman whose only companions are goldfish, a garden toad and a door-to-door salesman, as she broods over her deepest regrets: failed romances, body issues and her wayward early twenties.
14) Ninth house
Author
Series
Alex Stern volume 1
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
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? To Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda; Chie, Miwako's best friend; and Fumi, Ryusei's older sister, Miwako was more than the blunt, no-nonsense person she projected to the world. Heartbroken, Ryusei begs Chie to take him to the...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"[T]wo people brought together by a horrific act are united in a common cause by the powers of the Silver Box. The two join to protect humanity from destruction by an alien race, the Laz, hell-bent on regaining control over the Silver Box, the most destructive and powerful tool in the universe. The Silver Box will stop at nothing to prevent its former master from returning to being, even if it means finishing the earth itself" --
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
It’s always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they’ve learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women. Staying over at a boyfriend's place is disguised as a best friend’s sleepover, and tiredness can be blamed on studying instead of partying. They know they’re existing in a perfect moment. With growing older and...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Sara is studying at a prestigious British university and seeks a reprise from her loneliness by practicing the traditional craft she learned in India when she was young: pottery. She recalls her childhood, the lost dog, Chinna, who brings a community together, and the life of her revered pottery teacher, Elango, a Hindu who faced prejudice after falling in love with a Muslim woman. Switching with ease between Sara's diary entries and Elango's life...
19) Killingly
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Bertha Mellish, "the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl" at Mount Holyoke College, is missing. One cold November morning the junior is spotted walking through the Massachusetts woods; then, she vanishes. As a search team dredges the pond where she might have drowned, Bertha's panicked father and sister arrive at the campus desperate to find some clue as to her fate or state of mind. Bertha's best friend, Agnes, a scholarly loner studying medicine,...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A young Irish drama student in 1990s London makes new friends, establishes a place for herself, and seeks to shed her plain-girl identity before entering a whirlwind affair with an older man who changes her in unexpected ways.
In this stream-of-consciousness novel, an eighteen-year-old Irish girl, recently arrived in London to attend drama school, meets an older, well-regarded actor. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is...
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