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A story about a small town's surface appearance and the truths submerged below from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.
People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school don't mix with locals; even within the school, hierarchy rules as freshman and faculty members find out where they fit in and what is expected from them. But there are minor collisions...
People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school don't mix with locals; even within the school, hierarchy rules as freshman and faculty members find out where they fit in and what is expected from them. But there are minor collisions...
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In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the...
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Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is...
5) Foul is fair
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"Elle and her friends Mads, Jenny, and Summer rule their glittering LA circle. Untouchable, they have the kind of power other girls only dream of. Every party is theirs and the world is at their feet. Until the night of Elle's sweet sixteen, when they crash a St. Andrew's Prep party. The night the golden boys choose Elle as their next target. They picked the wrong girl. Sworn to vengeance, Elle transfers to St. Andrew's. She plots to destroy each...
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Amanda Pepper mysteries volume 9
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English
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Teacher and sleuth Amanda Pepper investigates the strangulation of a teacher in her school in Philadelphia. Police suspect a student, but Amanda suspects the teacher's ex-husband or her sister to whom she lent money.
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Told in multiple voices, teens at a preparatory school for the exceptional in the forests of Utah uncover a larger mystery after a student disappears.
Emma stands out. Which is hard to do at Redemption Prep, a school where every student has been handpicked to attend its remote campus in the forest of Utah. It's a school with so many rules: Don't skip mass. Don't break curfew. Don't go into the woods. When Emma goes missing in plain sight during mass,...
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2021.
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Nancy Luo, Krystal Choi, Akil Patel, and Alexander Lin, juniors at Manhattan's elite Sinclair Prep, are forced to confront their secrets after Jamie Ruan, once their closest friend, is found dead.--Provided by Publisher.
Jamie Ruan is the queen bee of Sinclair Prep. Until one day, she's dead. The Proctor, an anonymous poster on the school media app, points the finger at Jamie's friends. Akil Patel is the school's track star-- and he's running from...
10) Birthday vicious
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Ashley project volume 3
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Aladdin Mix
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Ashley Spencer is sure that her birthday party will show everyone that she is still at the top of the food chain despite her recent website ranking and trouble with her boyfriend.
11) Dreams on fire
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West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing
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2019.
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English
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"With an incarcerated father and an estranged drug-addicted mother, Shanequa's dreams of higher education feel like a fantasy. When Shanequa gets the chance to attend a prestigious private prep school, she feels like her dreams might become reality. Shanequa finds it easier to lie to her new friends than tell them the truth about her family. When her lies are found out, and Shanequa strikes back in blind rage, her path changes forever." --
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 20
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Mischa Abramavicius is a walking, talking, top-scoring, perfectly well-rounded college application in human form. When all of her college applications are rejected-- even her safety school-- she is shocked and devastated. Grappling with the prospect of an uncertain future, she begins to believe that her transcript was hacked. With the help of her best friend and sometimes crush, Nate, and a group of eccentric techies known as "The Ophelia Syndicate,"...
15) Renegade flight
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Rebelwing volume 2
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Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Pilot-in-training Viola Park, a probationary student at GAN Academy, enters a mech combat tournament that becomes a fight for the future of Peacekeepers everywhere.
16) Lip gloss jungle
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Aladdin Mix
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2008
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English
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"Lauren Page's plan was simple: get a fabulous makeover, become one of the Ashleys, and once she was securely in their trenches, completely destroy them from the inside. The only problem is, now that Lauren is seventh-grade royalty she isn't so sure she wants to follow through -- especially because Sadie, her former best friend and current best frenemy, has formed a new plan to bring down the Ashleys in all of her own fabulous makeover glory. Now...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"It's fall 1987 and life as normal is ending for the Malone family. With their sterile Dallas community a far cry from the Irish-American Bronx of their youth, Pat and Anne Malone have reached a breaking point. Pat, faced with a debilitating MS diagnosis, has fallen into his drinking. Anne, his devoutly Catholic wife, is selected as a juror for a highly publicized murder trial, one that raises questions - about God, and about men in power - she has...
18) Antisocial
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"One by one, students' phones are hacked at Alexandria Prep. What was thought to be a joke escalates quickly as private information and secrets are revealed, leaving everyone exposed, and Anna Soler on the the hunt for the hacker"--
19) Mainely fear
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Goff Langdon Mainely mysteries volume 2
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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""I want you to find out who is responsible for ruining his life and I want them to pay for it." This is the desire of Latricia Jones as she hires Goff Langdon to investigate her son's arrest for burglary, vandalism, and possibly hate crimes. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To complement his income in Brunswick's scarce private detective market, Langdon also...