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Giant Days volume 9
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Continuing their first semester at university, fast friends Susan, Esther, and Daisy want to find their footing in life. The girls, along with their male hall-mates, Ed and McGraw find that college is more than academics and bad microwavable meals. Add some pub hopping, hookups, breakups and political scandal this might just be the most eventful first semester ever. Giant Days, the comedic slice-of-life series from creator John Allison (Bad Machinery,...
102) Begin Again
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From the writer-director of the Academy Award®-Winning movie ONCE. Gretta (Keira Knightley) and Dave (Adam Levine) are college sweethearts and songwriting partners who head to New York when he lands a major label deal. But the trappings of fame soon lead Dave astray and a lovelorn Gretta is left on her own. Her world takes a positive turn when disgraced record-label exec Dan (Mark Ruffalo) is captivated by her raw talent. An enchanting portrait emerges...
103) We Still Live
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Running from a scandal that ruined his life, Isaac Twain accepts a teaching position at Hambden University where, three months prior, Professor John Conlon stopped a campus nightmare by stepping in front of an active shooter. When John and Isaac become faculty advisors for the school's literary magazine, their professional relationship evolves. Despite the strict code of conduct forbidding faculty fraternization, they delve into a secret affair-until...
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Physics is a fascinating science. In this book we will explore the life and career of physics and its professional, the physicist. Physics would begin in the Stone Age with random questioning into Nature. It would originate in Greek philosophy, Taoism, and other ancient thinking. It would advance through ages being formalized in the Renaissance. Now it is an advanced science being taught worldwide. It absorbs into its teaching astronomy, cosmology,...
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The King of Halloween & Miss Firecracker Queen tells the story of a football life from a daughter's perspective. It provides a look under the hood, so to speak, of one family's rise through the ranks of competitive football- from high school to college to professional coaching, and ultimately Super Bowl champion. It also chronicles their struggle to deal with the decline and death of the patriarch from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as a result...
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Movies and memory intersect in this compelling and unconventional memoir from queer writer, film aficionado, and Jeopardy! contestant Charles Jensen.Splice of Life follows Jensen from his upbringing and struggles with sexual awareness in rural Wisconsin to his sexual liberation in college and, finally, to the complex relationships and bizarre coincidences of adulthood. Exploring what it means to be male and queer, each essay splices together Jensen'...
107) The Road Trip
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A gripping tale of brains and bravery on the open road! When a cash-strapped college student takes a job transporting two preserved brains across the country, he gets more than he bargained for. His car is stolen with one of the brains inside, leading him on a wild chase to recover the missing gray matter.
With the help of the other brain, a brilliant detective, he must track down the thief and the lost brain before it's too late. This thrilling adventure...
108) Ghost Girl Horror
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Ghost Girl Horror collects THREE of Erik Handy's panic-inducing books featuring true terror from beyond the grave!She Never Dies is a ghost story involving a group of college students trying to survive the wrath of a vengeful spirit.In Cheerleader Massacre, a priest's attempt to rescue a juvenile prank gone horribly wrong leads each of these young women down a path of supernatural terror . . . and pity those who weren't even involved as the terror...
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Vince Dooley. Herschel Walker. The 1980 National Championship.
The names and accomplishments are forever etched in Bulldog folklore. And now, with one of the best coaches in the game, a powerful young running back, and a team stacked with talent, another national title draws within reach.
Top Dawg offers the inside scoop on how Georgia seized a place among the college football elite. Packed with stories of incredible victories, heartbreaking defeats,...
110) Scandal: Part Three
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Ella Wade's future with heartthrob Jaxson Cole hangs from a thread as dark mysteries of her own past burn back to life with murderous vigor in the dramatic final book of USA TODAY bestselling author Alison Foster's Scandal suspense series. The simple life of recent college grad Ella Wade has spun horribly out of control. Passion, deceit and betrayal spin her into a terrifying whirlwind of assassins, deadly secrets and violent men with guns (not to...
111) Deception and Denial
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When Mike and Ruth suddenly find their nest empty, with their sons at college, their life changes. Ruth has a secret that she's keeping from Mike; if he finds out, it could ruin their marriage. He has a well-paid position in a local firm but, when his boss decides to retire, a string of events lead to Mike having to keep a secret from his wife. Ruth knows she has to confess her secret to Mike... but how will he react? Is there a way to save their...
112) Lab Test
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Samantha Evans is a dog. It wasn't always this way. In fact, she once was a normal human: a college graduate, former homecoming queen, and the possessor of a six-figure income. But she was in the mood for a change - and she got more than she bargained for (much more) thanks to a gypsy's spell. Daniel O'Brien never needed anyone or anything until he finds a stray dog . . . not just any dog . . . Sam. Sam changes his life by turning it upside down and...
113) The Lightning Tree
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United Kingdom circa the 1980s-Ursula and Jerry find themselves surrounded by hip hairdos and dominating parents. The future looks bleak if they do not change their lives dramatically. Both are itching to escape their current lives and engage with the wider world.
Ursula's work as a teacher takes her far away to India to instruct disabled children, while Jerry accepts a scholarship to Magdalen College-but only to "highlight the absurdity of privilege."
Their...
114) Loved by the Hitman
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Love didn't have a place in Merrick Ashford's life. The former Navy SEAL's entire focus was on his job with Ruthless Corp. Relationships were the last thing on his mind while working on a hit... until Audrey Cantrell spotted him in the middle of an assignment.
Merrick didn't have any other choice. He had to kidnap the beautiful college student to protect his identity. Or at least that was what he told himself.
The hitman had already fallen hard...
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Ben is an artist closing in on forty, and it's hard for him to be sure about the past. His parents are both dead, and his brother, who has mental issues, is a lousy source of information. So when Ben finds himself with a particularly persistent memory that keeps nagging at him, he doesn't know where to turn to answer the question: Did his mother really assassinate a prominent neo-Nazi? Stuart Ross sends Ben ranging through childhood summers at an...
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A collection of short stories and
poems, fiction and non-fiction.
Gwendolyn was raised in the south. My mother was a cafeteria aid, and my father was a share cropper, construction worker.
My ninth-grade teacher. Mrs. Charlie encourages me to write. At the age of thirteen I wrote my first play called Slaves not for sale and a short story called our trip to China.
I earn my associate in science degree from Roxbury Community College in Boston...
117) Destined To Be
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Drulisa Johnson has always had a dream to start her own business. When she graduates from college, instead of finding a real job, she goes about trying to make her dream a reality. When she meets billionaire entrepreneur, Joshua Forrester, he rubs her all the wrong ways and she immediately hates his guts. But Joshua holds the key to her business being a success. As luck would have it, Drulisa soon realizes that Joshua may not have been as terrible...
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The characters of The Worlds We Think We Know are swept up by forces beyond their control: war, adulthood, family-and their own emotions, as powerful as the sandstorm that gusts through these stories. In Ohio, a college student cruelly enlists the help of the boy who loves her to attract the attention of her own crush. In Israel, a young American woman visits an uncommunicative Holocaust survivor and falls in love with a soldier. And, from an unnamed...
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Blessings volume 11
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NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to her beloved Blessings series with a Christmas wedding in the town of Henry Adams, Kansas.
Ever since Bernadine Brown bought the town of Henry Adams, her relationship with diner owner Malachi "Mal" July has had its share of ups and downs. But now they're finally ready to say "I do."
Or are they? As wedding preparations go into full swing, and families
...120) The Alicorn Court
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Soulmates battle against darkness. EmmaThere was a time I thought love would last forever, but that love has turned to shadow.My friends and I are in a race against time to save the fae from a future of destruction. If we're to survive, we must unite the six Crystals of Harmony. It's rumored the next stone is hidden deep within the Alicorn Court-- a secret fae society that's more myth than reality.Transfixed by strange visions, Odette may...
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