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• Fox

  a Novel

  Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

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  A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.

• The Academy

  Hilderbrand, Elin,

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  The Academy is Elin Hilderbrand's fresh, buzzy take on boarding school life, and a thrilling new direction from one of America's most satisfying and popular storytellers.

• I Have Some Questions for You

  Makkai, Rebecca,

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  In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school.

• Ninth House

  An Alex Stern Novel

  Bardugo, Leigh,

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  Surviving a horrific multiple homicide, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale, where her mysterious benefactors task her with monitoring the university’s secret societies.

• The Temple House Vanishing

  Donohue, Rachel, 1975-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Divines

  Eaton, Ellie,

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  Piecing together memories from her teen years at an elite English boarding school, Josephine gradually exposes a violent secret behind why the once-prestigious institution abruptly closed in disgrace.

• Greenwich Park

  Faulkner, Katherine,

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  A sophisticated female-led thriller about a woman whose life starts to unravel as a result of her friendship with an unpredictable single mother, Greenwich Park explores the terrible consequences of guilt, the complexity of female friendships, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret Place

  a Dublin Murder Squad Novel

  French, Tana

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  Investigating a photograph of a boy whose murder was never solved, aspiring Murder Squad member Stephen Moran partners with detective Antoinette Conway to search for answers in the cliques and rivalries at a Dublin boarding school.

• The Gifted School

  Holsinger, Bruce W.,

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  The students and parents of a tight-knit community find their bonds nearly destroyed by competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens nearby, in a story told from both adult and child perspectives.

• Admissions

  a Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

  James, Kendra,

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  In this debut, former Shondaland editor James intertwines her own coming-of-age story with a searing indictment of elite academia.

• The Maidens

  Michaelides, Alex, 1977-

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  When a member of a secret society known as The Maidens is murdered, a brilliant, but troubled, group therapist finds her obsession with proving the guilt of an untouchable Cambridge University professor spiraling out of control, threatening to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• True Biz

  a Novel

  Nović, Sara, 1987-

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  The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lying Game

  Ware, Ruth,

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  On a cool June morning, a woman walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten finds something sinister in the water. The next day, three women--Fatima, Thea, and Isabel--receive the text they had always hoped would never come, from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Oxford Year

  Whelan, Julia, 1984-

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  Offered a fantastic job in a rising star's political campaign on condition that she will work abroad and return to Washington after spending a dream year at Oxford, Ella clashes with, and then falls for, an outspoken literature professor with a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Am Charlotte Simmons

  Wolfe, Tom

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  As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont University's privileged elite, she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different and the exotic allure of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation