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2) Avalon
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"AVALON follows Bran, a high school graduate in California who is raised by her 'common-law-stepfather' in a rowdy home following her mother's death. After graduating from high school, Bran stays in town and is introduced to Peter, a college student who is engaged, and the two begin an intense relationship revolving around philosophy, literature, and their attraction for one another. Encouraged by Peter, Bran begins writing scripts for their friend,...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family's hopes and dreams, and the burden of sharing his late uncle's name. Daniel flounders at first--but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate, Daniel soon finds himself in love with a man who helps him see himself in a new light. But just as their...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Alison is weeks away from graduating from an East Coast boarding school and then off to the Ivy League, on his way to a job on Wall Street, when his ambitions are derailed when he is busted for selling drugs. He returns to his roots on the Jersey Shore and makes a new friend, Clare Savage, the son of a disgraced financier. The pair head to a boarding school in Scotland, where they discover a world shaped by even more greed and ambition than the...
5) The drop
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When a college student in San Francisco answers a help wanted ad, he accepts a large sum of money to transport a car to Los Angeles. After he learns the true nature of his cargo, he must fight for his life and the planet in a struggle against forces of pure evil.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jake, a studious new freshman weighing how far to go to find a brotherhood that will introduce him to lifelong friends and help conquer his social awkwardness; and Oliver, a hardworking chapter president trying to keep his misunderstood fraternity out of trouble despite multiple run-ins with the police. Their year-in-the-life stories help explain why students are joining fraternities in record numbers despite scandalous headlines. To find out...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
How could the devil be a sophomore? Well, he is and one night he clenched John Fist's soul with a 26 week contract and an option to renew. The short novel is arranged in three books, which further suggests the morality play. John Fist, uncommitted, unshorn and thoroughly unkempt, is sunk in collegiate slobdom and cynicism at Sheldon College, a fictional cutting from the Ivy League. His descent to hell starts with a spiral of boredom and even Fist's...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"College fraternity culture has never been more embattled. Once a mainstay of campus life, fraternities are now subject to withering criticism for reinforcing white male privilege and undermining the lasting social and economic value of a college education. No fraternity embodies this problem more than Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a national organization with more than 15,000 undergraduate brothers spread over 230 chapters nationwide. While SAE enrollment...
11) Race, sports, and education: improving opportunities and outcomes for black male college athletes
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard Education Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Race, Sports, and Education highlights the myriad ways in which organized collegiate sport has both positively contributed to and negatively detracted from the educational experiences of Black male college athletes. Specifically, John N. Singer examines the educational experiences, opportunities, and outcomes of Black males who have played NCAA Division I football and/or basketball at historically White colleges and universities. Singer is intensely...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A humorous and revealing account from inside the ultimate boys' club as one female cook transforms the frat food experience and serves up generous helpings of honest advice and observations, finding herself transformed in the process.
13) Fraternity
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Tells the unforgettable story of how Father Brooks, a Jesuit priest, transformed the lives of a remarkable group of men during one of the most fraught racial periods in the history of our country.
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