"Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old...

"From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold it 'Til it Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative southern-fried comedy about four liberal UC Berkeley students who stage a mock lynching during a Civil War reenactment--a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writer"--

Tucker Campanelli knows that relationships take work, but some are easier than others. When Erika Green comes back into his life, stirring up old feelings, a small part of him knows he shouldn't get too attached during senior year. Erika who, from before the video, liked to shock people with her words and bright-pink hair. Lately she's been holing herself up in small, liberal college life and hoping that the past will stay where it belongs. But with...

Adam Shepard boldly and ingeniously proved the viability of the American Dream in his first book, Scratch Beginnings. Now he tells us that the years we spend in college are The Best Four Years of our lives-and he offers a lively, entertaining, and eminently insightful guide on how to make the most of the college experience from orientation to graduation.

"Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint's victim. Not anymore--not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after four years of captivity. Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit, performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals. It seems that he is still suffering the effects of the head injury he suffered in the car crash...

There are many decisions you have to make during your life that have major impacts on your future. Buying your first new car, renting your first apartment all on you own, finding a soul-mate and getting married, buying your first house, applying for and accepting a new job, investing money to build a retirement fund all begin with big decisions that are usually based on reliable information, newly gained knowledge, and often help from an expert such...

"In Game On, Susan F. Paterno--Director of the Chapman University journalism program and mother of four recent college grads--leads you through the admissions process to help you and your family make the best decision possible. Is the college admissions game really stacked against you? Is it getting tougher to get into top schools-into any school-or not? How will COVID-19 change all of these things? Susan F. Paterno, a lifelong academic who knows...

Current, interesting, thorough descriptions of more than 100 careers presented in convenient alphabetical order, within five degree levels -- jobs typically requiring a professional or doctoral degree, a master's degree, a bachelor's degree plus work experience, or a bachelor's degree.

"When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death...