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341) Madam
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, modern gothic debut with shades of The Secret History, The Stepford Wives, and a dash of Circe, set at a secretive all girls' boarding school perched on a craggy Scottish peninsula. For 150 years, high above rocky Scottish cliffs, Caldonbrae Hall has sat untouched, a beacon of excellence in an old ancestral castle. A boarding school for girls, it promises that the young women lucky enough to be admitted will emerge 'resilient and ready...
Author
Publisher
Blue Box Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen's - a small English private boarding school in deepest Norfolk - is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident. But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine 'Jazz' Hunter to the force. Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London but reluctantly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The disappearance of a brilliant scholarship student and a young, charismatic teacher from an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Ireland is an unsolved mystery that has captivated the whole country. Year after year the media revisit it, and the conspiracy theories persist. Now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the disappearances, a journalist who grew up on the same street as the missing girl delves into the past to write a series of articles...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Beth Kramer is a "townie" who returns to her sophomore year after having endured a year of tension with her roommate, Sarah. But Sarah Brunson knows there's more to that story. Amanda Priya "Spence" Spencer is the privileged daughter of NYC elites, who is reeling from the realization that her family name shielded her from the same fate as Sarah. Ramin Golafshar arrives at Chandler as a transfer student to escape the dangers of being gay in Iran,...
345) The narrow
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone has heard the story of the Narrow. The river that runs behind the Atwood School is only a few feet across and seemingly placid, but beneath the surface, the waters are deep and vicious. It's said that no one who has fallen in has ever survived. Eden White knows that isn't true. Six years ago, she saw Delphine Fournier fall into the Narrow--and live. Delphine now lives in careful isolation, sealed off from the world. Even a single drop of...
346) Labyrinth of lies
Author
Series
Triple threat volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Detective Cate Reilly and former colleague Zeke Sloan-the man who once stole her heart-are reunited when she goes undercover at an exclusive girls' school and discovers that no one is who they seem to be . . . and danger waits at every turn"--
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
How far would you go to uncover the truth? One spring night in 1998, the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain: Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had...
348) The Honeys
Author
Publisher
PUSH
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's genderfluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions--and expectations--of his politically-connected family. This includes attendance at the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where his...
Author
Series
Children of the red king volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In January 1916 Henry Yewbeam and his younger brother, James, have been sent to stay with their cousins at the Bloor's Academy. It is one of the coldest days of the year, and all Henry wants to do is hide from his mean cousins and play marbles. He finds a nice, long hall and begins to roll his marbles. Then he discovers a marble that doesn't look familiar to him. Suddenly a series of strange events takes place. Henry begins to disappear. He quickly...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Now she’s the wife to a respected professor at an elite boarding school, where she also teaches. Her seventeen-year-old son, Rudy, whose dark moods and complicated behavior she’s long worried about, seems to be thriving: he has a lead role in the school play and a smart and ambitious girlfriend. Tess tries not to think about the mistakes she made eighteen years ago, and mostly, she...
351) Christmas sweets
Author
Publisher
Gale Cengage
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The Twelve Desserts of Christmas: "It's the perfect mix of naughty and nice when two lovestruck boarding school teachers watch six kids over Christmas break. But when someone wants the cozy couple's romance to burn out faster than a scorched fruitcake, it's Hannah Swensen to the rescue, armed with her sleuthing skills--and twelve deliciously festive recipes..." .
Nightmare on Elf Street: "Aside from the mortifying costume, how bad can a gig as a...
352) Siempre amigos
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017, c2016.
Language
Español
Description
Forging inseparable bonds in childhood that reinforce them throughout their teen years, two girls and three boys go their separate ways as adults and encounter respective tragedies and transformations.
Una conmovedora historia sobre la fortuna de enfrentarse a los desafíos de la vida con verdaderos amigos a nuestro lado. Cuando Gabby, Izzie, Billy, Andy y Sean se conocen el primer día de colegio, sienten una conexión y una complicidad especiales....
353) Smoke: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate England, where people who are wicked in thought or deed are marked by the Smoke that pours from their bodies, Thomas, Charlie, and Livia notice that some people appear to be able to lie without triggering Smoke. As they dig deeper, they discover teachers who have mysterious ties to warring political factions, a sumptuous estate which hides attic rooms and laboratories, revolutionaries who are fighting against a secret police force....
354) Abigail
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Gina, the spoiled daughter of a Hungarian general, rails against being sent to boarding school far from Budapest when war breaks out, but finds help in a statue of Abigail and her new "sisters."
Author
Series
Unicorn University volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A shy unicorn who magically becomes invisible when nervous tries to navigate her first day at boarding school.--
356) The double helix
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 3
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As Cruz and his friends continue to search for the third piece of the cipher, a mysterious message arrives suggesting that someone close to him is working for Nebula, leaving Cruz unsure of who he can trust.
357) Aisha and Silver
Author
Series
Unicorn Academy nature magic volume 4
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Aisha wants to concentrate on her music while her unicorn Silver wants to play, but the two must work together to expose the villain causing dangerous hailstorms and other extreme weather disasters at Unicorn Academy.
358) Sweet nightmare
Author
Series
Calder Academy volume 01
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Most schools are about being the best. This school? It's about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary. I should know. Because I'm trapped here. Look, every seventeen-year-old girl thinks their mom is a tyrant. But mine just happens to run Calder Academy, which paints a giant target...
359) The awakening
Author
Series
Zodiac Academy volume 1
Publisher
[Dark Ink Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"I'm a Gemini. Impulsive. Curious. Headstrong. A twin. Heir to a throne I know nothing about. And it turns out, I'm Fae. But of course there's a catch--all I have to do to claim my birth right is prove that I'm the most powerful supernatural in the whole of Solaria. And sure, technically that's true as I'm the daughter of the Savage King. But the bit they didn't put in the brochure was that every single Fae in this Kingdom would claim my throne if...