Grossman, Lev.
Summary: Intellectually precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater escapes the boredom of his daily life by reading and re-reading a series of beloved fantasy novels set in an enchanted land called Fillory. Like everybody else, he assumes that magic isn't real--until he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Grossman 2009Grossman, Lev.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GROKane, Darby
Summary: Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn’t know died by suicide. A tenuous link—one text—bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. But they got it wrong and now someone is determined to set it right. Twelve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Godwin, Gail.
Summary: Sparking enthusiasm for a play about the founding of their North Carolina mountains Catholic girls' school, a charismatic ninth grader and her recently orphaned best friend set in motion a series of events that have decades-long ramifications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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Summary: At Cara Rutledge's home on Isle of Palms, everything is comfortingly the same, yet rife with painful memories. Only through reconnecting with family, friends, and the rhythms of the lowcountry can Cara release the hold of the past and open herself to the possibility of a new love, career, and hope for the future. Meanwhile, her niece Linnea, a recent college graduate who doesn't know where her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: Old friends share memories of the past, current regrets, and future plans as they gather on a July weekend for the thirtieth reunion of Darton Hall College's class of 1969.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Levine, Sara.
Summary: "When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper; laziest ever part-time clerk at the Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. ... Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its core values: boldness, resolution,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002
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Summary: Charlotte Silver dazzles with a ruefully funny coming-of-age novel that follows two recent Bennington grads who are determined to make it in the Big Apple. "Bennington College, founded in 1932 as a suitable refuge for the wayward daughters of good families, maintains its saucy reputation for attracting free spirits. There, acres outnumber students, the faculty is composed of fading hippie and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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Summary: "Continuing the saga of her bestselling Beach House series, Mary Alice Monroe weaves together a tale of the struggles and triumphs of the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, South Carolina. Beautifully wrought and rich with keen insight, this is an illuminating tale of continuance, resilience, and one family's enduring love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION MONReid, Taylor Jenkins
Summary: "Hannah Martin's life isn't shaping up into much of anything. Since graduating college eight years ago, she has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs ... She takes up residence in her best friend Gabby's guest room. Along with Gabby and Gabby's husband Mark, [she goes] out to a bar where they meet up with some of [their] old friends, including Hannah's high school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2015
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Summary: Like The Group, Mary McCarthy's classic tale about coming of age in New York, Joanna Smith Rakoff 's richly drawn and immensely satisfying first novel details the lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten to unravel as they chase their dreams, shed their youth, and build their lives in Brooklyn during the late 1990s and the turn of the twenty-first century....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAKGrossman, Lev.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GROBrooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brooks 2011Brooks, Geraldine.
Summary: The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Summary: "Goodbye, Columbus meets the novels of Amy Tan in this American story of class, society and identity that marks the debut of a new voice in fiction"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEETalley, Liz.
Summary: For a good part of Daphne Witt’s life, she was a supportive wife and dutiful mother. Now that she’s divorced and her daughter, Ellery, is all grown up, Daphne’s celebrating the best part of her life, a successful career, and a flirtation with an attentive hunk fifteen years her junior…who happens to be her daughter’s ex-boyfriend. Ellery is starting over, too. She’s fresh out of college. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake Romance 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction TalZink, Nell
Summary: "AVALON follows Bran, a high school graduate in California who is raised by her 'common-law-stepfather' in a rowdy home following her mother's death. After graduating from high school, Bran stays in town and is introduced to Peter, a college student who is engaged, and the two begin an intense relationship revolving around philosophy, literature, and their attraction for one another. Encouraged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZINPark, Suzanne
Summary: "Bestselling author Lily Lee is on a short deadline to deliver her new career guide How to Land the Perfect Job, and she's been interviewing at all the top companies around town. But when she's offered a coveted position at her dream company, the employer's background check reveals she never actually finished her college degree. Unbelievably, her worst nightmare has come true. Lily returns to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023