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231 items found for "boarding school"
- Review of American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
I liked Curtis Sittenfeld's peek at prep schools in Prep, and I loved her short story collection You
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/23/22 Edition
High school was largely a nightmare, so her time at her state university is bound to be an improvement first day of classes, Barrett fears that college may end up a ruination on par with the end of her high school
- Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson
to piece together her complicated feelings about David, who she kissed), her parents pull her out of school
- Review of Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
Atlanta to her rural North Carolina town to track her family's history and finish her thesis for graduate school
- Review of Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
Beasts of a Little Land tracks Jade's schooling, found family, artistic expression, and her social position
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/7/23 Edition
Atlanta to her rural North Carolina town to track her family's history and finish her thesis for graduate school
- Review of Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
adorable young adult rom-com Better Than the Movies is about Liz Buxbaum, a fabulously eccentric high schooler Liz is a hopeless romantic who has been waiting her whole high school career to be swept off her feet
- Review of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
history such as that of Black music and appropriation; decades of racial impacts on the modern public school
- Review of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/12/23 Edition
01 Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine It's early 1700s Vienna at a prestigious music school, the Ospedale
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/13/24 Edition
She's spent her first year at school holing up and studying, maintaining a quiet life.
- Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
Students at the residential River Valley School for the Deaf are trying to get through finals, maintain Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush
- Another Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling this second book of the trilogy, El is determined to somehow help her classmates escape their deadly school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition
The untrustworthy narrator gathers friends from primary school to compare accounts of that pivotal day
- Review of This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush
- Review of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
teachers, smoking cigars, and drinking jug wine, among other things) appear on the scene of the Sunday School
- Review of Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott
When cool Leo at school reveals that he's into comedy too, Haylah jumps at the chance to write material
- Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
Mercenary Maidens, Highlander, Wicked Earls' Club, Wedding a Wallflower, Borderland Ladies, The London School
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/29/24 Edition
Explanation for Everything, and A Friend of the Family. 03 How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang In high school
- Review of Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner
Mary Pearl is home, she’s at school, she’s home, she’s at school, she’s home.
- Review of Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu
He went to grad school, he went to therapy, and he began to let go of the guilt surrounding the idea
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/23/23 Edition
She's got to raise the money to send her bright younger brother Jacob to a private school where he can
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition
She's valedictorian, school captain, and model student.
- Review of Alias Emma (Alias Emma #1) by Ava Glass
Ava Glass is a pseudonym for Christi Daugherty, author of the YA Night School thrillers.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/21 Edition
reading the newest book from Naomi Novik, which showcases excellent dark humor within a deadly magical school Naomi Novik A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school
- Review of How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
He explores various schools of thought about ethics and morality to consider more complex issues, including
- Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
role in her view of the world and how she approached her life--and resulted in her expulsion from high school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/24/21 Edition
young so their families can gain their dowries, and where girls are frequently forced to stop attending school Adunni is living through tremendous hardships, yet she keeps her sights set on getting back into school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition
university student working in a Cork bookstore, dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James It's early 1700s Venice at a prestigious music school for orphans, the Ospedale della Pietà.
- Review of How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez
and Columbia premed undergrad Astrid is dating Max Martin, a sweet, nerdy boy she knew back in high school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/1/22 Edition
published tomorrow, our main protagonist Astrid is dating Max Martin, a nerdy boy she knew back in high school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/25/22 Edition
Friends, written before the Covid-19 pandemic, centers around a group of women, friends since medical school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/31/22 Edition
Nora's focused on her work, her small-town life, her kids' sports and their school play, and her longtime
- Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman
like the symptom of all the biggest world problems...relentless greed, disregard for the environment, hoarding
- Review of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
When May's husband became ill, her son's spirit flagged in school, and her own work stress began taking
- Review of Happy Place by Emily Henry
emphasizes that dissatisfaction with the actuality of the job is what spurs the abandonment of years of schooling
- Review of The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
The magical school setting reminded me of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education, although the tone of this
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
tightly knit community; A Deadly Education, the first in Naomi Novik's series about a dark, magical school Naomi Novik A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters, and Toward the end of high school they begin to hesitantly connect.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/15/22 Edition
And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush
- Review of Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees
It's 1945, and Edith Graham is a small-town British schoolteacher who is thrilled to sign on with the British Control Commission to help get schools back up and running for the children in war-torn Germany She'll keep her cover by assisting with schools while actually trying to help locate Nazis.
- Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
love goes viral, it leads to the offer of a competitive internship and soaring popularity at her new school makes a desperate deal with a famous actor in her class: if he plays the role of her fake boyfriend at school
- Review of This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
At the Lincoln Indian Training School in Minnesota, young American Indians taken from their families
- Review of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
years earlier she'd abandoned her family and friends and anyone tied to her past, including her high-school
- Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
In 1937, history student Ludmila Pavlichenko is a young lady balancing school, the care of her young
- Review of The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
the Natural History Museum, putting Boss Tweed behind bars, securing a more equitable New York public school
- Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites
When his school is shut down by the Nazis, he weds a widow who seeks a husband to help her raise her Anton is searching for redemption after horrific events surrounding his students and school.
- Review of Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin
Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/16/22 Edition
history--including that of Black music and appropriation; decades of racial impacts on the modern public school
- Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
In high school, Helen Zheng's life was upended by the tragic, sudden death of her sister Michelle.