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The darker side of academia. Characters in pursuit of higher education that goes horribly awry. Perfect for the intellectual with a dark side.
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The Secret History
Donna Tartt - Knopf
Format: Book
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Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal... |
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A Deadly Education: A Novel
Naomi Novik - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life.Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I'm concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I'm not joining his pack of adoring fans. I don't need help surviving the Scholomance,... |
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The Goldfinch: A Novel
Donna Tartt - Little Brown & Company
Format: Book
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Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him,... |
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The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
Format: Book
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To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world... |
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Truly Devious: A Mystery
Maureen Johnson - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Book
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Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. "A place," he said,... |
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Magic for Liars
Sarah Gailey - Tor Books
Format: Book
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Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it.
Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life - or at least, she's perfectly fine.
She doesn't in any way wish she was like Tabitha, her estranged, gifted twin sister.
Ivy Gamble is a liar.
When... |
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Trust Exercise: A Novel
Susan Choi - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving "Brotherhood of the Arts,"... |
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Bunny: A Novel
Mona Awad - Viking
Format: Book
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Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction... |
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Arcadia Falls: A Novel
Carol Goodman - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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There once was a girl who liked to pretend she was lost. . . . Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded roadway, her car moves through a dense forest setting not unlike one in the bedtime stories Meg used to read to her daughter, Sally. But the girl... |
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The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her. His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying... |
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Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League eliteGalaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school... |
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The Lying Game: A Novel
RUTH WARE - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes Ruth Ware's chilling new novel, The Lying Game.On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic... |
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