|
|
|
Party girls die in pearls : an Oxford girl mystery
by Plum Sykes
The best-selling author of Bergdorf Blondes presents a first installment in a comic mystery series set in the fashionable world of the Oxford University of the 1980s and follows the experiences of a studious country girl who in her first term is catapulted into the mystery of a glamorous classmate's murder. 50,000 first printing.
|
|
|
Transcendent kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
A follow-up to the best-selling Homegoing finds a sixth-year PhD candidate grappling with the childhood faith of the evangelical church in which she was raised while researching the science behind the suffering that has devastated her Ghanaian immigrant family.
|
|
|
Rush :
by Lisa Patton
A wealthy southern mom's ambition to secure her daughter's sorority membership compromises the prospects of a maternal housekeeper and a sweet, unpedigreed pledge harboring a dark secret. By the best-selling author of Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter
|
|
|
They never learn
by Layne Fargo
"From the author of the "raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless" (Wendy Walker, USA Today bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve--one an English professor/serial killer who murders the most evil man she knows each year, and the other a lost college freshman seeking vengeance after her best friend is sexually assaulted at a party"
|
|
|
By the book : a novel
by Julia Sonneborn
In this re-telling of Jane Austen’s classic, Persuasion, an English professor in California fighting for tenure experiences a huge setback when her first love and ex-fiancé is hired as the college’s new president. Original.
|
|
|
The tenth muse : a novel
by Catherine Chung
Determined to conquer the Riemann hypothesis in the face of cultural discrimination against women intellectuals, a genius mathematician uncovers a mysterious theorem's unexpected World War II link to her family. 75,000 first printing.
|
|
|
The devil and Webster : a novel
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The first woman president of an elite progressive college responds to student protests about a popular professor's tenure denial before the group's controversial leader emerges and shocking acts of vandalism begin to destabilize the campus. By the best-selling author of You Should Have Known. 50,000 first printing.
|
|
|
Real life
by Brandon Taylor
Keeping his head down at a lakeside Midwestern university where the culture is in sharp contrast to his Alabama upbringing, an introverted African-American biochem student endures unexpected encounters that bring his orientation and defenses into question.
|
|
|
The idiot
by Elif Batuman
Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in 1995, Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling with her changing sense of self, first love, and a daunting career prospect
|
|
|
Catherine House : a novel
by Elisabeth Thomas
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. A first novel. 150,000 first printing.
|
|
|
Magic for liars
by Sarah Gailey
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.
|
|
|
Ninth house
by Leigh Bardugo
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. Maps.
|
|
|
The art of fielding : a novel
by Chad Harbach
A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate and the president's daughter. 75,000 first printing.
|
|
|
The sixes : a novel
by Kate White
After being accused of plagiarizing her latest bestselling celebrity biography, Phoebe Hall jumps at the chance to teach at a small private college in rural Pennsylvania where she, hoping to get a fresh start, becomes immersed in a deadly mystery involving a mythic secret society known as The Sixes. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.) 100,000 first printing.
|
|
|
The ancient nine
by Ian Smith
Going from urban Chicago to the ivy-clad campus of Harvard University, Spencer Collins is surprised to be invited to apply to one of the school's elite final clubs, until he finds out that the club hides a shadowy group of powerful men. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author
|
|
|
|
|
|