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Dupont University—the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.
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When three children, Jesse, Jason, and Emma, are confronted with new classmates from different ethnic backgrounds, they strive to overcome their initial reactions, and to understand, accept, and welcome Maria, Jin, and Fatima.
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In World War II-era rural Kentucky, twenty-two-year-old Easter and Anneth, her teenaged sister, lose their parents young, so they must raise each other. Easter finds her life in the Pentecostal Holiness church and its music, while Anneth dances and drinks in less-than-holy honky-tonks. Will the differences in their young lives and in their very natures tear them apart or will the bond of the sisters prevail? In lucid prose with an ear for the voice...
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""A modern coming-of-age full of love, desperation, heartache, and magic" (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) about "the ways in which family, grief, love, queerness, and vulnerability all intersect" (Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author). Perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Thirty Names of Night"--
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Laid-back hippie Tess Newheart is still in love with her ex-boyfriend, social-climbing businessman Nick Jamieson. When Tess pretends to be his fiancee on a business trip that could make or break Nick's career, he struggles to change her ways while she struggles to change his heart.
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Yeti and Unicorn cannot always agree, whether it is about which shape is most pleasing, whose style of painting is best, or, more serious, how to divide up a pie when Unicorn is content with half, but Yeti would like more--but the two friends always find a way past their differences, because their friendship is important to both.
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Francis loves words, and the class exercise where the students come up with words starting with a chosen letter; Francis has chosen the letter "p", but while reviewing the letter "f" one of her classmates comes up with "fat" and associates it with Francis which makes her sad and withdrawn--until later her father teaches her the word "possible" and they explore its meanings together.
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