Susan Coll
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English
Description
"A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week--narrated by two very different women and punctuated by political turmoil, a celestial event, and a perpetually broken vacuum cleaner. Independent bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned out on books. Mourning the death of her husband, the loss of her favorite manager, her only child's lack of aspiration, and the grim state of the world, she...
3) Acceptance
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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A comic chronicle of a year in the life in the college admissions cycle.
It's spring break of junior year and the college admissions hysteria is setting in. "AP" Harry (so named for the unprecedented number of advanced placement courses he has taken) and his mother take a detour from his first choice, Harvard, to visit Yates, a liberal arts school in the Northeast that is enjoying a surge in popularity as a result of a statistical error that landed...
4) Beach week
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Language
English
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Ah, "beach week": a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs' latest herd of high school grads flocks to Chelsea Beach for seven whole days of debauched celebration. In this dark comedy, ten teenage girls plan an unhinged blowout the likes of which their young lives have never seen. They smuggle vodka in water bottles and horde prescription drugs by the dozen. Meanwhile, their misguided, affluent parents are too busy worrying about legal liabilities...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sophie Bernstein is losing the will to keep the lights turned on at the celebrated independent bookstore she owns. But she doesn't want to leave. Recently widowed, jittery about current events, and shaken by rereading Anne Frank's diary, she hires a handyman to prepare a secret room behind the fiction section for the day they come for her. Meanwhile, she presides over a staff of highly educated, underpaid millennials whose youthful angst, on-the-job...
9) Acceptance
Publisher
[Distributed by] Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Taylor Rockefeller is a bright, blue-haired young girl currently running the gauntlet of college applications, admissions essays, advanced placement exams, and an insanely overly ambitious mother. As a battle is waged on both sides of the application process, Taylor learns an invaluable lesson about the genuine meaning of acceptance.