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Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail.
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2 videodiscs (264 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the acclaimed movie, this is an episodic series that tells the story of a group of black students navigating the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as post-racial as it thinks.
44) Horse feathers
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1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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As president of Huxley College, the fun loving Professor Wagstaff attempts to help his son finally graduate after 12 years by arranging to 'buy' professional football players for an upcoming big game against rival Darwin University. The plan takes an unexpected twist, however, when a bootlegger and a dogcatcher are mistaken for the athletes and accidentally hired instead.
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Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs...
46) Black chalk
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346 pages ; 21 cm
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"One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was only ever meant to be a game played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University; a game of consequences, silly forfeits, and childish dares. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal and more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results. Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again...
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Xavier is a strait-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh-- and party!"--Container.
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"Bitter Orange Tree is a profound exploration of social status, wealth, desire, and female agency by Jokha Alharthi. It presents a mosaic portrait of one young woman's attempt to understand the roots she has grown from, and to envisage an adulthood in which her own power and happiness might find the freedom necessary to bear fruit and flourish. Zuhour, an Omani student at a British university, is caught between the past and the present. As she attempts...
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Erica Donato mystery volume 4
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"From the earliest days of the Republic until the administration of LBJ, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was, proudly, both an arsenal of democracy, in FDR's words, and the creator of 70,000 local jobs. In time it became best known as the scary place New Yorkers had to locate to rescue their impounded cars. And then it came back to life, but not without a war. "--Amazon.com.
50) A silent voice
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A deaf elementary school girl named Shoko Nishimiya transfers to a new school and meets a boy named Shoya Ishida. Shoya leads the school in bullying Shoko over her disability until she transfers to another school. Immediately, the class bullies Shoya for having bullied Shoko. Shoya loses contact with Shoko, and for years he suffers the consequences of his guilt. Upon entering high school, Shoya finally decides he must find Shoko, determined to make...
51) Talent: a novel
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241 pages ; 25 cm
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An English grad student struggling with her dissertation about the intellectual history of inspiration desperately searches for a perfect case study to anchor her thesis, only to find it in the unlikeliest of places.
52) A cure for night
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Taking a job with the Brooklyn Public Defender's Office, Joel Devereux agrees to assist lead attorney Myra Goldstein in a high-profile murder case involving a black pot dealer accused of killing a white college student in a street shooting.
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"Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she's had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad-Emrys Myrddin's epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him-is the only thing keeping her afloat. So when Myrddin's family announces a contest to redesign the late author's estate, Effy feels certain it's her destiny. But musty, decrepit Hiraeth Manor is an impossible...
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389 pages ; 24 cm
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It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre ... She's a freshman honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. She spends her time on yogalates, frat parties and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her. Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study of psychopaths - students like herself who lack empathy and can't comprehend...
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Teenage comedy about Jerry Mitchell who's having one of those days: he's late for high school, his car has a flat tire, he's been sent to the dean's office, and, worst of all, he's incurred the wrath of the meanest, toughest guy in school who's forcing him into a fight at 3 p.m. in the school parking lot. Jerry has just seven hours to find a way out of his tough problem.
57) College girl
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328 pages ; 21 cm
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Struggling with private demons from her home life in spite of her attractiveness and ambition, sexually naive college senior Natalie Bloom falls for an untrustworthy man who preys on her insecurities, and manipulates her into self-destructive behaviors.
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xxii, 329 pages ; 20 cm
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The surrealistic adventures of the young anti-hero reflect the author's irreverent view of life, using a 1960s college campus as a microcosm of the world.
"Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering--among other things--mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and,...
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Following the launch of her new novel, writer Kate Conklin is asked to speak at her alma mater by her old professor. Soon Kate finds herself deeply enmeshed in the lives of a group of college students"--Container.
60) Cuéntamelo todo
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470 pages ; 22 cm
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"Malin no necesita compañía, no la quiere, pero es ambiciosa y desea llegar lejos, por eso, cuando consigue entrar en una universidad de élite gracias a su impecable expediente, su mayor reto será entablar relaciones sociales y fingir ser una persona normal. A su llegada al campus, Malin se sorprende por lo sencillo que le resulta hacerse de un grupo de amigos: Gemma, una chica inglesa extrovertida y dicharachera, apasionada por el teatro; Ruby,...
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