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Light & Dark Academia

Just in time for back to school! Check out our light & dark academia titles.

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  • Babel

    or the Necessity of Violence : An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

    Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),
    "From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Harper Voyager 2022
  • Jessica Miller plans to triumphantly return to Duquette University for her ten year reunion festivities. She's the most successful out of her entire group of friends, and she's ready to flaunt her achievements...even though her "friend group," known…
    Book, 2021Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, 2021
  • Murder Your Employer

    the McMasters Guide to Homicide

    Holmes, Rupert,
    "Preparing you for an education you'll never forget, this introduction to The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of homicidal arts, follows students as they prepare for graduation by getting away with the perfect murder of…
    Book, 2023New York : Avid Reader Press, 2023
  • More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made Vermont, 1950: There's a place for the girls whom…
    Book, 2018New York : Berkley, 2018
  • Piecing together memories from her teen years at an elite English boarding school, Josephine gradually exposes a violent secret explaining why the once-prestigious institution abruptly closed in disgrace
    Book, 2021New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
  • "A riveting, modern gothic debut with shades of The Secret History, The Stepford Wives, and a dash of Circe, set at a secretive all girls' boarding school perched on a craggy Scottish peninsula. For 150 years, high above rocky Scottish cliffs,…
    Book, 2021New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021
  • "A debut novel about the last remaining descendant of the Brontës who discovers that her recently deceased father has left her a treasure hunt that may lead to the long-rumored secret literary estate"--
    Book, 2016New York : Touchstone, 2016
  • "She's an outsider desperate to belong, but the cost of entry might be her darkest secret in this intoxicating debut of literary suspense following a clique of dangerously ambitious students at the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland: a…
    Book, 2023New York : Bantam Books, [2023]
  • In 1982 in a southern city, David and Sarah, two freshmen at a highly competitive performing arts high school, thrive alongside their school peers in a rarified bubble, ambitiously devoting themselves to their studies--to music, to movement, to…
    Book, 2019New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019
  • Audere, agere, auferre. To dare, to strive, to conquer. For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a…
    Book, 2006New York : William Morrow, c2006
  • "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…
    Book, 2015New York : Picador, 2015
  • As a child, Kathy-now thirty-one years old-lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was…
    Book, 2005New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005
  • "Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written - let alone published -…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Celadon Books, 2021
  • 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
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
  • Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her…
    Book, 2011New York : Viking, 2011
  • A young woman finds old papers which begin to reveal an ancient and evil plot concerning Vlad the Impaler and the legend of Dracula, which may still be continuing
    Book, 2005New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2005
  • "In the early 1900s, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore, where she discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on…
    Book, 2023New York : Del Rey, [2023]
  • Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse.…
    Book, 2019New York : Flatiron Books, 2019