Product Description: Like New York Times bestseller Reconstructing Amelia, a stunning debut about a young teenager on the brink and a parent desperate to find the truth before it’s too late.Thirteen year old Callie is accused of bullying at school, but Rebecca knows the kind and gentle girl she’s raised is innocent...read more

Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm. With no loans to repay, she lives in a fashionable apartment with her fiancé. The other woman, saddled with burdensome debt and a low GPA, is still struggling to finish her degree in tourism. In an era of skyrocketing tuition and mounting concern over whether college is "worth it," Paying for the Party is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher education. A powerful exposé of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities, it explains in vivid detail why so many leave college with so little to show for it.Drawing on findings from a five-year interview study, Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton bring us to the campus of "MU," a flagship Midwestern public university, where we follow a group of women drawn into a culture of status seeking and sororities. Mapping different pathways available to MU students, the authors demonstrate that the most well-resourced and seductive route is a "party pathway" anchored in the Greek system and facilitated by the administration. This pathway exerts influence over the academic and social experiences of all students, and while it benefits the affluent and well-connected, Armstrong and Hamilton make clear how it seriously disadvantages the majority.Eye-opening and provocative, Paying for the Party reveals how outcomes can differ so dramatically for those whom universities enroll.

Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don’t presume to be singers or dancers. They aren’t athletes or artists, good listeners or model citizens. Until tomboy Tugs befriends the popular Aggie Millhouse, wins a brand-new Brownie camera in the Independence Day raffle, and stumbles into a mystery only she can solve, she looks at her hapless family and sees her own reflection looking back. But it’s a summer of change, and it just may be that in the end, being a Button is precisely what one clumsy, funny, spirited, and observant young heroine decides to make of it. Award-winning author Anne Ylvisaker has trained her own observant eye on a small Iowa town in 1929 to craft a riotously endearing portrait of a family like no other.

Product Description: Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder, coworkers at The Courier, know the newspaper monitors their office e-mail. But they still spend all day sending each other messages, gossiping about their coworkers, and baring their personal lives like an open book...read more

Product Description: Like New York Times bestseller Reconstructing Amelia, a stunning debut about a young teenager on the brink and a parent desperate to find the truth before it’s too late.Thirteen year old Callie is accused of bullying at school, but Rebecca knows the kind and gentle girl she’s raised is innocent...read more

TennysonDon’t get me started on the Bruiser. He was voted “Most Likely to Get the Death Penalty” by the entire school. He’s the kid no one knows, no one talks to, and everyone hears disturbing rumors about. So why is my sister, Brontë, dating him? One of these days she’s going to take in the wrong stray dog, and it’s not going to end well.BronteMy brother has no right to talk about Brewster that way―no right to threaten him. There’s a reason why Brewster can’t have friends―why he can’t care about too many people. Because when he cares about you, things start to happen. Impossible things that can’t be explained. I know, because they’re happening to me.Award-winning author Neal Shusterman has crafted a chilling and unforgettable novel about the power of unconditional friendship, the complex gear workings of a family, and the sacrifices we endure for the people we love.“At once dark and darkly humorous, intense and intensely satisfying, bruiser may very well be Neal Shusterman’s best novel yet. Put this one at the top of your ‘must read’ list.” ―Ellen Hopkins, New York Times bestselling author of Crank“The English language needs another noun: ‘a shusterman.’ It means a book that is guaranteed to grip you from beginning to end and leave you thinking about the characters for years, just like bruiser will. Buckle up and prepare for a great ride!” ―Laurie Halse Anderson, National Book Award Finalist for Speak and Chains

Product Description: The excitement and peril of being a pioneer specifically a female pioneer -- is brilliantly presented in this compelling biography of the famous aviatrix. Focusing on her 1932 solo flight from Newfoundland to Ireland, glorious paintings highlight the ever-changing mood of the lyrical free verse, presenting the tension, the trials, the loneliness, and finally the relief and exhilaration of her triumph...read more

In an audio package which contains two of the author's fun stories, Andrew pays fifty cents for a magic formula to create freckles, and Freddy is tired of being the middle child in his family until he gets a very special part in the school play. Books available.

Product Description: Nina, auditor extraordinaire, is known at work as the Ice Queen, where her colleagues joke that her frosty demeanor travels to the bedroom. But what they don't know is that Nina spends her after-work hours locked into fiery games with her boyfriend Andrew, where she acts out her deepest fantasy of being a prostitute...read more

Product Description: Spirited adventurer Bliss Van Bon sets off for three months traveling around South America. When her traveling partner breaks her leg, Bliss must begin her journey alone. Along the way, there's no shortage of company. From flirting on the plane and being tied up in Peru to sex on snowy mountain peaks and finding herself out of her depth with local crooks, Bliss doesn't have time to miss her original travel companion one bit...read more

Product Description: Yasmin and U seem like the perfect couple. She’s a scriptwriter and he’s a magazine editor who has a knack for tapping into the latest trends. One evening, however, U confesses to Yasmin that he’s ‘having a thing’ with a nineteen-year-old violinist – the precocious niece of Yasmin and U’s old boss, the formidable Pandora Fairchild...read more

Product Description: A steamy tale of love, lust and lies on both sides of the law...Julie Gibson's landed a job as a crime reporter for a provincial newspaper. The seaside town she's working in has seen better days; crime and boredom are on the increase and people are going nowhere - fast...read more

An irreverent guide to terminating a relationship with Mr. Wrong includes a list of do's and don'ts, suggestions for what to say, and ways to handle the aftermath.