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1) Madam
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"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...
2) All girls
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"A keenly perceptive coming-of-age novel for fans of Sally Rooney, Curtis Sittenfeld, and J. Courtney Sullivan, All Girls captures one year at a prestigious New England prep school, as nine young women navigate their ambitions, friendships, and fears against the backdrop of a scandal the administration wants silenced. But as the months unfold, and the school's efforts to control the ensuing crisis fall short, these extraordinary girls are forced to...
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Claudia, a young student at an all-girl boarding school, suffers terrifying dreams of a woman's hanging body. She enlists the help of other students to investigate the source of these all-too-real dreams and soon learns the hanged woman is the tormented and restless spirit of a past student, who is hellbent on enacting her revenge.
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"The Goode School in Marchburg, Virginia, is a prestigious prep school, whose elite status, traditions, and honor code are ideal for preparing exceptional young women for brilliant futures. But a stranger has come to Goode, and what is growing at this ivy-league school has turned poisonous. No one questions the cruelties of the secret societies or the dubious behavior of the privileged students as long as they pretend to follow the rules. But when...
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A week after her mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff girls are special, the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and master magicians. Several of the pupils also have special gifts like Amy's, and when one of the girls in her dormitory is abducted by a mysterious group in black...
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Maintaining a household and stoically submitting to conjugal duty are the skills Paulette Van Der Beck teaches with fervor in her homemaker's institute. Her certainties are shaken when she finds herself widowed and ruined. Is she rattled by the return of her first love or the wind of freedom in May '68? What if the good wife finally became a free woman?
9) The beguiled
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At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tensions, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events.
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"Sarasa is taking a trip back home to Asakusa, and her stoic roommate/brand new BFF Ai-chan is coming with her! When the girls arrive, waiting for them is Akiya, Sarasa's childhood friend and a rising star in the world of kabuki theater. But Ai suspects that Sarasa and Akiya might be more than friends. Does ditzy Sarasa really have a boyfriend?!"--Back cover.
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At a reception for the faculty and trustees to welcome Maggie Detweiler's team, no one seems keener for all to go well than Florence Meagher, a star teacher who is loved and respected in spite of her affliction - that she can never stop talking. Two days later, Florence's body is found in the campus swimming pool. Maggie obviously knows schools, but she also knows something about investigating murder. Print run 50,000.
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"For new transfer student Aoi Nagisa, St. Miator Girls' Academy offers her the chance at a fresh start and a way to redefine herself. But these noble intentions go out the window when she catches her first glimpse of honor student Hanazono Shizuma, whose porcelain white skin and goddess-like beauty leave Nagisa speechless. It's puppy love at first sight, but naive Nagisa is unaware that Shizuma is a serial heartbreaker who has set her sights on Nagisa...
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"With the Sports Festival coming to a spectacular close, it's time for the Kouka students to prepare for the Culture Festival, a one-of-a-kind graduation performance put on by the second-years! This year's festival will be even more special, as the first-years are being offered a chance to perform a scene from a play! Sarasa is dead set on scoring a starring role, but so are all of her classmates!"--Back cover.
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"The day of the Kouka sports festival has arrived! Because of her extreme height and boundless energy, Sarasa has been chosen to participate in the relay race. Sarasa usually loves to take center stage, she can't help but feel nervous with so much responsibility placed on her. Can she lead her team to victory?--Back cover.
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"It's time for acting class, now with actual acting and not just theory! The second-years are assigned scenes from the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice to practice their skills. As everyone gets amped up to put what they've learned to use, Ai tells Sarasa that she's considering going after male roles instead of female ones. Will the two besties become rivals?!"--
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