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Dark Academia October 2021
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Bunny
by Mona Awad F AWA
Invited to join a popular clique at her university, a misfit artist with a dark imagination is drawn into ritualistic activities that transform her perspectives on reality.
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Ninth house
by Leigh Bardugo FAN BAR / BOCD FAN BAR / Hoopla / OverDrive
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.
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Trust exercise : a novel
by Susan Choi F CHO / Hoopla / OverDrive
Falling in love while attending a competitive 1980s performing arts high school, David and Sarah rise through the ranks before the realities of their family dynamics and economic statuses trigger a spiral that impacts their adult lives.
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Plain bad heroines : a novel
by Emily M. Danforth F DAN / OverDrive
A highly anticipated adult debut from the award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the release of a best-selling book about an early 20th-century New England boarding school where gender-diverse students died under suspicious circumstances.
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They never learn
by Layne Fargo F FAR / OverDrive
A respected English professor and secret vigilante killer of nefarious men insinuates herself into the investigation of her own murders, while a college freshman becomes obsessed with exacting justice in the wake of her roommate’s sexual assault.
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The Magicians
by Lev Grossman FAN GRO / BOCD FAN GRO / OverDrive
After graduating from a secret, exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, Quentin Coldwater finds that a fictional land from a series of childhood fantasy novels is real, but is more darker and dangerous than he could have imagined.
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The orchard : a novel
by David Hopen F HOP / OverDrive
Reinventing himself upon moving to a glitzy Miami suburb, a student at an Orthodox Jewish academy is welcomed into a circle of popular students whose faith is unconventionally tested by their charismatic rabbi.
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The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern F MOR / F MOR (LP) / BOCD F MOR / PLWY F MOR / OverDrive
Discovering a mysterious book of prisoner tales, a Vermont graduate student recognizes a story from his own life before following clues to a magical underground library that is being targeted for destruction.
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A deadly education : a novel
by Naomi Novik FAN NOV / OverDrive
An unwilling dark sorceress destined to rewrite the rules of magic clashes with a popular combat sorcerer while resolving to spare the lives of innocents.
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The last graduate : a novel
by Naomi Novik FAN NOV / OverDrive
A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the sequel to A Deadly Education.
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If we were villains
by M. L. Rio F RIO / Hoopla / OverDrive
Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for a murder he may not have committed, Oliver Marks describes his past as a Shakespearean actor in college whose rivalry with a castmate escalated in dangerous ways.
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The secret history
by Donna Tartt F TAR / Hoopla / OverDrive
Richard Papen, a relatively impoverished student at a New England college, falls in with an exclusive clique of rich, worldly Greek scholars and soon learns the dreadful secret that keeps them together.
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Catherine House : a novel
by Elisabeth Thomas F THO / Hoopla / OverDrive
A dangerously curious, rebellious undergraduate uncovers a shocking secret about an exclusive circle of students and the dark truths beneath their school's promises of prestige.
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The truants
by Kate Weinberg F WEI / OverDrive
Jess Walker has come to a concrete campus under the flat grey skies of East Anglia for one reason: To be taught by the mesmerizing and rebellious Dr Lorna Clay, whose seminars soon transform Jess’ thinking on life, love and Agatha Christie.
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Black chalk
by Christopher J Yates F YAT / Hoopla / OverDrive
A psychological thriller set in New York and at Oxford University follows a group of six students as they play an elaborate game of dares and consequences with tragic results
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Ace of spades
by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé YA F ABI / OverDrive
A contemporary thriller by a debut author follows two Niveus Private Academy students who, selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, are pitted against an anonymous bully who reveals all of their secrets.
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Magic for Liars
by Sarah Gailey YA F GAI / Hoopla / OverDrive
In a first novel by an Hugo Award-winning writer, a private investigator and talented liar embarks on a search for a killer at a California private academy for mages where her estranged, magically gifted twin hides in plain sight.
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Truly Devious
by Maureen Johnson YA F JOH / Hoopla / OverDrive
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened
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A separate peace
by John Knowles YA F KNO / Hoopla / OverDrive
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world
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A lesson in vengeance
by Victoria Lee YA F LEE / OverDrive
While helping the eccentric new girl research the Dalloway Five, five students who died mysteriously and were said to be witches, Felicity finds history repeating itself, forcing her to face the darkness in Dalloway—and in herself.
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The obsession
by Jesse Q. Sutanto YA F SUT / Hoopla / OverDrive
After freeing her mother from an abusive relationship, Delilah Wong refuses to play a part in Logan's delusional romance--but how can she convince him to let her go?
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How we fall apart
by Katie Zhao YA F ZHA / OverDrive
When she and her friends become the prime suspects in the disappearance of their classmate and frenemy, Nancy Luo is forced to play a deadly game with The Proctor who knows the truth—and her darkest secrets.
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Vita nostra
by Marina Diachenko Hoopla / OverDrive
A young girl falls under the spell of a strange, sinister man who asks her to perform odd tasks before convincing her to enroll in a strange and magical school called The Institute of Special Technologies.
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The tenth girl
by Sara Faring Hoopla / OverDrive
Dismissing rumors that the Patagonia school where she has taken recent employment is haunted, a young teacher unexpectedly agrees to help a spirit find redemption, before a dark secret threatens both of their existences.
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Confessions : a novel
by Kanae Minato Hoopla / OverDrive
After her pupils murder her only daughter, Yuko Moriguchi sets in motion a diabolical plot for revenge
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Special topics in calamity physics
by Marisha Pessl OverDrive
Having moved from one academic outpost to another throughout her childhood at the side of her aphorism-prone father, Blue van Meer attends the elite St. Gallway School in her senior year, where she falls in with a charismatic group of friends before the deaths of a teacher and student awaken her analytical instincts.
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Vicious
by Victoria Schwab OverDrive
Ten years after a thesis experiment designed to tap a human's supernatural abilities goes terribly wrong, Victor breaks out of prison and resolves to track down his former roommate, Eli, who is accompanied by a girl with astonishing abilities and who resolves to eradicate the world's super-powered people.
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Don't breathe a word
by Jordyn Taylor OverDrive
Eva has never felt like she belonged . . . not in her own family or with her friends in New York City, and certainly not at a fancy boarding school like Hardwick Preparatory Academy. So, when she is invited to join the Fives, an elite secret society, she jumps at the opportunity to finally be a part of something. But what if the Fives are about more than just having the best parties and receiving special privileges from the school?
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