Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anellia is a young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant, and compulsive, she falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive black philosophy student. But she is tested most severely by a figure out of her past she'd long believed dead. Astonishingly intimate and unsparing, and pitiless in exposing the follies of the time, I'll Take You There is a dramatic revelation...
2) Either/or
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
J. Courtney Sullivan's celebrated debut novel is a sparkling tale of friendship and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose. Assigned to the same dorm their first year at Smith College, Celia, Bree, Sally, and April couldn't have less in common. Celia, a lapsed Catholic, arrives with a bottle of vodka in her suitcase; beautiful Bree pines for the fiancé...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
College student Laura Moriarty's life takes an unexpected turn when her parents divorce, leaving her longing for a home that no longer exists, and trying to manage her own problems while dealing with the realization that her mother--her rock--has difficulties of her own.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Tassie Keltjin, a twenty-year-old girl from a small town, comes of age as a college student while the U.S. prepares for war in the Middle East, and when she takes a part-time job as a nanny, she encounters various emotional and political issues and learns more about herself.
9) Lost souls
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Aspiring crime writer Kristi Bentz, having already survived two run-ins with serial killers, enrolls at All Saints College in New Orleans to investigate the disappearances of four girls, all of whom had been enrolled in a popular class on vampirism, and finds she has once again been targeted by a killer and has completely underestimated her enemy.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
Detective Manon Bradshaw is 39, single, and miserable as sin. She has endured some of the worst dates in internet history. But she loves her job and performs it brilliantly; all she needs to rise up in the ranks is a big break. Edith Hind is a gorgeous, intrepid graduate student at Cambridge University who seems to have it all: a doting boyfriend, a devoted friend named Helena, a loving mother and a father who is a surgeon to the Royal Family. When...
Author
Series
Ivy chronicles volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A good girl goes fabulously bad in the final book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordans sexy New Adult romance series, in which three Ivy League suite-mates seek higher knowledge of just how far they can go. Months after her boyfriend dumped her, Georgia can still hear the insults he hurled at her. Boring. Predictable. Tame. Tired of feeling bad, shes ready to change her image, and go a little wild. What better way to prove her ex wrong...
12) Fourth wing
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
"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....
13) Sacred cows
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
New Haven police reporter Annie Seymour is called to report on the murder of a Yale coed and finds herself drawn into the young girl's life, which hints of a deadly conspiracy in the city government.
14) Cartwheel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Written with the riveting storytelling and moral seriousness of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold his family together. When Lily Hayes arrives in Buenos Aires for her semester abroad, she is enchanted by everything she encounters: the colorful buildings, the street food,...
16) Chasing Red
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chosen as one of Goodreads' 21 Big Books of Fall They said she was going to be my ruin ... Then let her ruin me. Caleb Lockhart has everything-- wealth, adoration, a brilliant future. Until a chance encounter with a siren in a red dress changes everything. Until he meets the woman he dubs Red. Veronica Strafford's past makes it hard for her to trust anyone. Now, kicked out of her apartment, she reluctantly accepts Caleb's offer for a place to stay....
18) Blessings
Author
Series
Sommerfeld trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Trina Muller has always had a passion for healing abandoned and injured animals. Her parents encourage this tenderness towards God's creatures until Trina confesses her dream of going to veterinary college. Why can't she accept that God's will is for her to be a wife and mother? Graham Ortmann loves Trina, but how can he possibly marry someone who is determined to go against the dictates of the Old Order Mennonite fellowship? Trina can never be happy...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Harry Mills is a guardian angel on a mission: help twenty-four-year-old Addie Folsom get her life back on track--and, if the right moment strikes, help her find love. Posing as a teacher at a local college in Tacoma, Washington, Harry is up to the task, but not even he can predict the surprises that lay in store. After trying to make it on her own, Addie has returned home to Tacoma for the holidays, but this time she plans to stay for good, enrolling...
20) The dying animal
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Philip Roth, one of the best-known and award winning literary masters of our time, engages his readership with insightful and challenging novels of the human condition. With The Dying Animal, he revisits the character David Kepesh. At age 60, Kapesh is drawn out of his carefully ordered existence and into an obsessive affair with one of his students.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request