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"How do you get a job without experience and get experience without a job? It's the question virtually every college student or recent graduate faces. Now newly revised and updated, Lindsey Pollak's Getting from College to Career is the definitive guide to building the experience, skills, and confidence you need to succeed in the job search, offering action-oriented tips and strategies ranging from the simple to the expert." --P. 4 of cover.
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Sahara, a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who feels like an all-around failure, finds hope, answers, and unexpected redemption when she sets out to find the truth about The Unfortunates--the unlucky subset of black undergrads who have been mysteriously disappearing.
Sahara is Not Okay. Entering her sophomore year at Elite University, she feels like a failure: her body is too curvy, her love life is nonexistent, her family is disappointed in...
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When Warren becomes roommates with cold and calculating Bridgette, tempers flare, but Warren is intent on turning her passionate antagonism into passionate love.
Colleen Hoover, the New York Times bestselling author of Maybe Someday, brilliantly brings to life the story of the wonderfully hilarious and charismatic Warren in a new novella, Maybe Not. When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an...
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Campus diaries volume 2
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When Shane Lindley moves into her apartment building, determined to sleep his way through her entire cheerleading squad, Diana Dixon, setting some ground rules, is stunned when he, to make his ex-girlfriend jealous, tells everyone she's his girlfriend.
5) Stuck on you
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Depressed and discouraged after putting his dreams on hold for years, Lazarus Mitchell decides to enroll in college and hires a tutor to help him get acclimated, but his first sight of graduate student Kiana Solé Jordan makes him think that love hasn't given up on him.
Lazarus Mitchell's life has been a constant battle: he put his dreams on hold to fulfill his wife's, and once she achieved her career dreams she ended their marriage. He enrolls in...
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Anne Rivers Siddons is well-loved for her evocative and revealing portraits of Southern women coming into their own. In Heartbreak Hotel, she brings to the reader a young woman coming-of-age in the South of the 1950s-amid the racial revolution and the strife of a humid Alabama summer.
7) The bell jar
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum.
The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia...
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"Schools worldwide lack a formal financial literacy course, instead, focusing on teaching students arbitrary skills that may or may not be relevant to their daily lives. As a result, we have financially illiterate young adults who can solve quadratic equations and remember the structure of a plant but have no idea about the loans they take out or how taxes work. This book aims to fill a gap in the education system by introducing teenagers and college...
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A global epidemic.
A hospital lockdown.
Is there anything more terrifying than the threat you can't see?
A pandemic has reached across the globe to Kennedy's backyard, throwing everyone into a panic. Trapped in a hospital lockdown, Kennedy and those isolated with her can only guess who will survive ... and who will succumb.
As the quarantine persists, Kennedy starts to
11) Fourth wing
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans....
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Who do you want to be? Are you spiritual? Religious? Still figuring it out? Regardless of where you are, college is an intense time of choices, challenge, and growth. Full of opportunities to learn from students from around the country and many different faith traditions, Spirituality 101 is the perfect companion for college students seeking spiritual fulfillment on campus. Including practical, hands-on advice and information from experienced faculty...
13) On a whim
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Katie Weldon series volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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"Ever since high school, Katie has wondered what it would be like to be Rick Doyle's girlfriend. Is she about to find out? The swirl of her life catches her off balance when she receives an unexplained bouquet, an unexpected call from her mother and unhappy news about her beloved car, Baby Hummer. Rick's new roommate, Eli, complicates things by inviting Katie on a midnight jaunt to see a meteor shower. Under a canopy of stars Katie grasps a new view...
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Religious colleges and universities in America are growing at a breakneck pace. In this startling new book, journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley explores these schools-interviewing administrators, professors, and students-to produce the first popular, accessible, and comprehensive investigation of this phenomenon.
Call them the Missionary Generation. By the tens and hundreds of thousands, some of America's brightest and most dedicated teenagers are opting...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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"At twenty-two years old, Sydney is enjoying a great life: She's in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers that Hunter is cheating on her--and she's forced to decide what her next move should be. Soon, Sydney finds herself captivated by her mysterious and attractive neighbor, Ridge. She can't take her eyes off him or stop listening...
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There's more to college than classes, credits, and a nonstop social life. It's more than getting a degree to improve one's job prospects. College is a time where students develop into the adults they will be for the rest of their lives, a time to explore the big questions about life and human destiny, a time when they form their character and faith. The perfect gift for high school graduation, Make College Count helps students make the most of their...
17) Chasing Red
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Chasing Red novels volume 1
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He had everything-wealth, adoration, a brilliant future. Until one chance encounter changed everything. The moment Caleb Lockhart spotted the mysterious woman in her siren red dress, he couldn't tear his eyes away. For the first time in his life, he wanted something. Something he knew he could never have. The unforgettable stranger he dubs RED.
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"When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately drawn to one another. A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father's recent death. Paul sees the wealthy, effortlessly charming Julian as his sole intellectual equal - an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. He idolizes his friend...
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In this brilliantly modern novel of love, obsession, and revenge, a professor pieces together the life and mysterious death of a former student—and unearths a shocking revelation about her final days. "A deliciously modern take on the psychological thriller" (Daily Telegraph).
On a snowy February morning, the body of twenty-five-year-old journalist Alice Salmon washes up on a riverbank south of London. The sudden, shocking death...
On a snowy February morning, the body of twenty-five-year-old journalist Alice Salmon washes up on a riverbank south of London. The sudden, shocking death...
20) Policed
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"When Kennedy Stern and her best friend Reuben drag themselves away from their grueling studies to enjoy a night off campus, getting pulled over by a belligerent cop isn't in either of their plans. When the police altercation turns violent, the media notes Reuben's dark skin and labels this instance of police brutality a hate crime. Those Kennedy trusts the most warn her not to get involved, but she owes it to Reuben to pursue justice regardless...