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An orphaned child that has spent the first ten years of his life living under the stairs of his aunt and uncle's house is invited to join the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He learns his destiny lies in the realm of magic and fantasy. Includes the theatrical and extended versions.
662) O gentle death
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First St. Martin's Minotaur edition.
Language
English
664) The history boys
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.
665) What we hide
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, high school Junior Jenny of Philadelphia spends a semester at a Quaker boarding school in Sheffield, England, near where her brother is avoiding the Vietnam draft, and where everyone carries close-held secrets.
666) Home sweet drama
Author
Series
Canterwood Crest. Main series volume 8
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First Aladdin M!X edition.
Language
English
Description
"If the girls have learned anything, it's that only the strong survive at Canterwood Crest Academy. Just ask Jasmine.... Oh, whoops. You can't -- she's back at Wellington Prep. Well, then, ask Heather Fox. After all, she's the lone Queen Bee left standing. But Sasha Silver has more than proved that she's worthy competitiion in--and out of-- the arena. Is there a new queen in the making?"--p. [4] of cover.
667) Fence: Disarmed
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The boys of Kings Row are off to a training camp in France! The team will have to face superior fencers, ex-boyfriends, expulsion, and even Nicholas's golden boy and secret half-brother, the infamous Jesse Coste"--
Author
Series
Barnaby Grimes volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Weird and evil events at a London boarding school provide messenger Barnaby Grimes an opportunity to test his budding knowledge of the ancient Chinese art of yinchido, in which one focuses on silences and empty spaces.
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Director-approved two DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine's Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society.
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine's Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society.
673) Ominous
Author
Series
Private novels. Main series volume 13
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After they discovered a shocking secret about the original Billings Girls, Reed Brennan and Noelle Lange's world was turned upside down. But it's nothing compared to what happens next.
674) Cracks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Miss G is seemingly a force of nature, a glamorous presence beloved and idolized by her blossoming charges at an all-girls British boarding school. Her students heap adoration upon her, a love that Miss G basks in and returns until the arrival of Fiamma, a wild and self-confident transfer student from Spain. Fiamma's new role as teacher's pet ignites the jealousy of former class queen Di, and triggers an obsession in Miss G that quickly spirals out...
675) R.I.P. Eliza Hart
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Ellie Sokoloff is attending Ventana Ranch School in Big Sur, because she hopes that the wide-open setting will cure her claustrophobia and she was delighted to find Eliza Hart, her childhood friend, also in attendance; but Eliza has changed and for no apparent reason starts spreading rumors about Ellie, until one day she is found dead. Now Ellie must find out what happened to her one-time best friend, and who killed her, not least because she herself...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Language
English
Description
Jacob discovers clues to a mystery and stumbles upon Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. However the mystery is deeper than he had thought, as he gets to know the residents and learn about their special powers. Jacob discovers that only his own special peculiarity can save his new friends.
677) The beguiled
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Clint Eastwood plays a wounded Union soldier hidden by a girls' academy in the South during the Civil War.
Author
Series
Young Bond volume 5
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Piecing together information gained while skiing in the Alps, teenaged James Bond returns to Eton College and foils an assassination attempt, then goes on the run across Europe with a beautiful and dangerous Irish girl, Roan.
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