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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are starting to pall. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a magical sailing ship and set out on an errand to the wild outer reaches of their kingdom. Their pleasure cruise becomes an adventure when the two are unceremoniously dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parent's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
As a senior in high school Quentin Coldwater became preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. After graduating from college and being admitted into a highly exclusive, secret society of magic in upstate New York, he makes a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin's fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined for his childhood dream...
Author
Language
English
Description
The daughter of Korean immigrants, Casey Han has refined diction, a closeted passion for reading the Bible, a popular white boyfriend, and a magna cum laude degree in economics from Princeton, but no job and an addiction to the things she cannot afford in the glittering world of Manhattan. In this critically-acclaimed debut, Min Jin Lee tells not only Casey's story, but also those of her sheltered mother, scarred father, and friends both Korean and...
4) First frost
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Series
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam War. As they catch a few final waves in California before reporting for duty, a sudden storm assaults the shores and capsizes a nearby cargo boat. Walt and Henry jump to action, but it's soon revealed by the police who greet them ashore that the sunken boat carried valuable contraband from underground...
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
This book includes eight important lessons focusing on 99 principles that will quickly and memorably enhance any individual's money management acumen. Unlike many of the personal money management books out there, this book is a quick, easily digested read that focuses more on the qualitative side than the quantitative side of personal money management. The principles are not from a textbook. Rather, they are practical principles learned by the author...
Author
Series
Wild seasons volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mia Holland isn't usually one for a fling, but after a sweet, filthy night with charming Frenchman Ansel Guillaume, she makes the wildest decision of her life. Terrified of the boring but practical path ahead of her, Mia rolls the dice and follows Ansel to France for the summer to just ... play. Playing house, playing lovers ... Mia's whole life feels like pretend until she dresses up and pulls Ansel into a provocative masquerade that finally feels...
7) The legacy
Author
Series
Off-campus volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Come for the drama, stay for the laughs! Catch up with your favorite Off-Campus characters as they navigate the changes that come with growing up and discover that big decisions can have big consequences...and big rewards.
Author
Publisher
Mango Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Prepared Graduate speaks to Millenials and Generation Z, addressing many of the concerns students (and parents) have about what to do pre- and post-graduation. Faced with a lack of information and resources on her career journey, Kyyah Abdul developed her own winning strategies which helped her land several STEM positions after her college graduation. Over time, Kyyah perfect her strategies and has distilled them into The Prepared Graduate. This...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Miller plans to triumphantly return to Duquette University for her ten year reunion festivities. She's the most successful out of her entire group of friends, and she's ready to flaunt her achievements ... even though her "friend group," known on campus as the East House Seven, doesn't really exist anymore. Ten years ago, Heather, one of their own, was murdered, fracturing the once close knit group. And then another friend was accused of...
10) St. Elmo's fire
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Seven friends, recent college graduates, search for a place in the real world and face the issues of career and commitment. Against the backdrop of St. Elmo's, their local hang-out, they save, betray and love each one another as only the closest of friends can.
11) Wicked sexy liar
Author
Series
Wild seasons volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
London Hughes is very content to surf daily, tend bar, hang out with her group of friends, and slowly orient herself in the years after college. When a wave knocks her for a loop one morning, then Luke Sutter's flirtatious smile knocks her for another that evening, she veers slightly off course-- and into his path. Why not-- it's only one night. As much as she enjoys her fling with Luke, when London learns about his past-- more specifically, who's...
12) July, July
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Language
English
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Description
"At the thirtieth reunion of Minnesota's Darton Hall College class of 1969, ten old friends join their classmates for a July weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing, regretting. The three decades since their graduation have seen marriage and divorce, children and careers, hopes deferred and abandoned. July, July tells the heart-rending and often hilarious story of a group of men and women who came into adulthood at a moment when American...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"June Moody, a thirty-something English professor, just wants to get away from her recent breakup and reunite with girlfriends over summer break. Her old friend and longtime nemesis, Sadie MacTavish, a mega-successful author, invites June and her college friends to a baby shower at her sprawling estate in the San Juan Islands. June is less than thrilled to spend time with Sadie--and her husband, June's former crush--but agrees to go. The party gets...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emerald Career Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Resume & LinkedIn Strategies for New College Graduates is a clear and concrete guide to What Works to Launch a Gen-Z Career. A new volume in the best-selling Modernize Your Career series, it lays out in crisp, clear language exactly what college students need to do to land their first professional job: from developing a super resume and LinkedIn profile to conducting a networking-based job search and acing their interviews. In addition to ample excerpts...
16) Main Street
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Features the story of a college graduate from St. Paul who leaves to marry a doctor in a small, middle-class town, only to find her efforts to bring culture and beauty to the town thwarted by its residents, testing her idealism.
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ryann Liebenthal's Burdened tells the maddening story of how the power plays of legislators and presidents, the commodification of higher education, and the rapacious practices of for-profit colleges and private lenders have created today's student-debt lava pit.
19) The assistant
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One day in the life of Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, she, and viewers, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A scripted half-hour series focuses on a group of 20-something's in NYC. Season Two episodes, Hannah forges ahead in her writing pursuits, but her enthusiasm is tempered by the responsibility for Adam; Marnie needs her best friend and former roommate; Jessa returns from her honeymoon in Mexico; Shoshanna takes charge of her new identity; and Ray has an out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude.
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