It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili--a renowned text attributed to an Italian nobleman, a work that has baffled scholars since its publication in 1499. For Tom, their research has been a link to his family's past--and an obstacle to the woman he loves. For Paul, it has become an obsession,...

From prize-winning author Su Bristow comes a fascinating coming-of-age novel about magic and the choices that define future generations. It’s 1959. To eight-year-old Felicity—who lives on a dying farm in England—the fairies in the woods have much more to offer than the people in her everyday life. As she becomes more rooted in their world, she learns that their magic is far from safe. Their queen, Elfrida, offers Felicity a gift. But fairy bargains...

Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.

Taking a simple assignment to report on the activities of a college student, private detective Dana Cutler is forced to flee for her life when the student is murdered, while junior lawyer Brad Miller discovers strange coincidences between Dana's case and another killing.

Chip Kidd's witty and effervescent coming-of-age novel can only be described as a portrait of the designer as a young man. It's 1957, long before computers have replaced the skillful eye and hand, and our narrator at State U is determined to major in Art. After several risible false starts, he ends up by accident in a new class called "Introduction to Graphic Design," taught by the enigmatic professor/guru Winter Sorbeck—equal parts genius, seducer,...

The rich, snobbish Omega fraternity is enlisted by the Dean to get the rowdy boys of Delta house kicked off the campus of Faber College.

"Offers a kaleidoscopic view of a sexual assault on a college campus that will leave readers thinking about how memory and identity, what's at stake, and who sits in judgment shape what we all decide to believe about the truth"--

"Former Army Ranger Jake Rivers enrolled in Kelton College for an education, but his lack of political correctness makes him a target. When a violent gang of marauders invade the main hall, taking students as hostages for big ransom money, Jake enlists his fellow classmates to fight back"--

A college freshman who is very religious must debate the existence of God with his college professor who believes otherwise in order to earn a passing grade; a teacher finds herself in trouble when she answers a student's question about Jesus; estrangedbrothers, one a pastor and the other a lawyer, are reunited when Hadleigh University seeks to close the pastor's church which happens to be on the school's property.