College Life

One hundred years ago, a burlesque dancer fell in love with the piano player as they worked together in the circus. One heart was already taken by a tormented magician and the other would only beat for her. They had no idea that their affair would not only cost the lives around them, but also those in the future. Odette Dupont has lived a pretty average college life in a sorority to dating the hottest quarterback on campus. One warning from a fortune teller at her sorority’s carnival has her life being turned upside down. Past visions, spirits, vampires, witches, and a cat that she truly ...

How does an undrafted free agent and two-sport college walk-on end up in a Chicago White Sox uniform? With a college football career derailed by mononucleosis and a college baseball career shattered by rotator cuff surgery, Brian Kent's narrative will motivate any athlete. Follow the journey from high school to college(s); from the dojo to the independent leagues; and from personal training to a White Sox contract.

College is no longer the golden ticket to success, and students are starting to see through it. We are a generation that wants to make a life instead of just a living. We are choosing ourselves, dropping out, and living life on our own terms! Sounds like a dumb idea? An escapist fantasy? Only to those too mentally enslaved by the system to think outside the box! In DropOut, Rueben L. Carter guides renegades and tapped out students in making a rational decision to leave college in order to chase their true passions in life.

American Isis is the first Plath biography benefiting from the new Ted Hughes archive at the British Library, which includes 41 letters between Plath and Hughes as well as a host of unpublished papers. The Sylvia Plath that Carl Rollyson brings to us in American Isis is no shrinking violet overshadowed by Ted Hughes; she is a modern-day Isis, a powerful force that embraced high and low culture to establish herself in the literary firmament.

Get a four-year, debt-free head start on the rest of your life with the valuable lessons learned and taught by educator, speaker, and business coach Seth Hymes. The reality is, there are irrefutable, evidence-based, and statistically proven arguments for looking beyond college as you start your journey to creating a fulfilling life and career. Skip College for Success offers detailed, step-by-step instructions on exactly how to do it.

For young adults or college students, life is full of mounting pressures, challenging relationships, and big decisions. In Life Wisdom from a Smooth Jesus and a Clumsy College Pastor, Skyler Daniel offers a friend for that journey and time-tested biblical wisdom. This devotional, readable in under five minutes a day, can be that voice and guide to you during this season of life. Written for Christians and skeptics alike, Life Wisdom offers fifteen devotionals a month, one for every other day, with an index for topics and Scriptures. Skyler Daniel pastors Manly Memorial Baptist Church in ...

Seven hours. That's how long I knew her in college. But that hasn't stopped me from thinking about her every day since. That's why I recognized her the second she walked into my bar. She glances over, but it's obvious she doesn't recognize me. And why would she? I think she only looked at my face once that night. Most of the time, she had her head buried in my chest, wailing about her idiot boyfriend. You'd think those few short hours would fade from my memory by the time I woke up the next morning, but no such luck.

The college years are often referred to as the best years of your life. Author Frank J. Hanna believes your best years are still ahead of you, but only if you have a strategy for living that goes beyond what you learned in school. According to Hanna, wealth and success are not what you think. Drawing on a lifetime of business experience, he proposes a radically different approach. He shows that wealth is not merely money, competition has a higher purpose than simply getting ahead, and a life of happiness is simpler to attain than we imagine. If you are looking to succeed in the ways that really matter, Hanna's simple message, conveyed with clarity and insight, will change your views of wealth and success. And it might just change the course of your post-graduate life entirely!

Patrick Harper has always struggled with his deafness. Having been born deaf, he had to navigate a world without sound. He couldn’t hear anything if it weren’t for his hearing aids. Sometimes, silence is golden. After enduring heartache and an accident, Patrick refuses to love or drive again. His brothers think he needs to let go of the past. Eh, what do they know? They’re insane as it is. When four Harper brothers arrive at Saintwood College, expect the unexpected when Patrick encounters Rowan. What happens when someone proves to Patrick that actions speak louder than words? With the...

A contemporary coming-of-age novel set in Prince Edward Island during the late 19th to early 20th century. Embark on a heartfelt journey through the enchanting landscapes of Prince Edward Island in "Unfinished Beginnings." As Marie Catherine stands on the brink of adulthood, she faces the whirlwind of emotions that come with leaving her cherished home for the uncertainties of college life. In this evocative tale, the beauty of friendship, the complexities of love, and the bittersweet nostalgia of childhood blend together, inviting readers to experience the poignant moments of growing up. ...

This is a collection of 50 simple tips of advice that any student would like to know. The book offers practical timeless tips, including money management, your major and school, friends and socializing, and starting your career.

How do you get a job without experience and get experience without a job? It's the question virtually every college student or recent graduate faces. Now newly revised and updated, Lindsey Pollak's Getting from College to Career is the definitive guide to building the experience, skills, and confidence you need to succeed in the job search, offering action-oriented tips and strategies ranging from the simple to the expert.

EDGY-WEDGIE™ mini-books are designed to give readers psychological wedgies. This 100+-page mini-book is barely worth the pennies you paid for it. But it could be the most valuable book you’ve ever read—even if you apply only ONE of the simple, burning truths that follow, truths that perhaps no one ever helped you learn. MarkAndreAlexander.com

The vibrant stories in I’ll Give You a Reason explore race, identity, connection, and belonging in the Ironbound, an immigrant neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. A young widow goes on her first date since her husband’s death and finds herself hunting a bear in the woods with a near stranger. An unhappy wife compares her mother’s love spells and rituals to her own efforts to repair her strained marriage. A self-conscious college student discovers a porn star who shares her name and becomes obsessed with her doppelgänger’s freedom and comfort with her own body.

They say sisters have your back forever. Well, what happens when your secrets are on the line? How much can you trust your Kappa Zeta sister? Tinsley came to Campbell to escape the problems and mistakes of her past. She thought she would have a fresh start, but at Kappa Zeta, there’s not such thing as a fresh start or hidden secrets. Remember girls, you better keep your secrets close to your chest and make sure none of your sorority sisters have a knife they’re dying to dig into your back.

Winner of the Pinnacle Achievement Book Award for Religion and recipient of a Literary Titan gold award, Surviving Freshman Year follows a group of students through their first year of college. Each session describes a decision a student faces and provides biblical wisdom addressing the decision. By using the scripture and discussion questions for each chapter, this book will help students answer the question, "Is the Bible still relevant today?" Students looking for something both real and authentic will find that the Bible is both of these and absolutely relevant today.

Can sorrow bind two people forever? Kabir felt instant dislike for Vibha but they became best friends as they were in the same situation. They could understand each other’s silence. Kabir Rai: This is his story. Kabir lived in California, USA. He came to India for his favourite cousin’s birthday, but destiny had something else decided for him. He came for a month but never left. Kabir lost his parents and along with it; he lost his spirit to live. Then he found Vibha, who was facing the same pain. They became best friends. Their day started together and ended together. Kabir and Vibha ...

When Bryn Mawr College senior Elizabeth Harper is asked to serve as the college’s liaison to their annual Benefit Gala at Carrington Manor, she has little notion of her billionaire host’s mysterious past, much less his dark intentions. Inexperienced and naïve, she immediately falls under his spell. Lured into a sexual cornucopia of bondage, discipline, and submission, Elizabeth soon discovers she must plumb the depths of her own sexual fantasies in order to win the heart of the man with whom she has fallen desperately in love. Fearing she is no longer in control of her emotions, ...

The ultimate adulting guide for every teen and young adult – empower yourself with over 15 life skills today! Let’s face it, adulting is hard. While this might sound like a cliché, it does ring with truth. The moment your childhood years come to an end, you face a transitionary period of life – the teenage years – when you have to figure out where you fit. And in all this, you also need to struggle with the idea of living independently, preparing yourself for the life ahead.

What began as an effort for a college professor to get to know her students turned into an invitation to be initiated into a National Panhellenic Conference sorority and serve as its faculty advisor. For the next seven years, Mathews attended sorority and fraternity chapter meetings, Greek Week competitions, leadership retreats, and mixers and formals. Combining her personal observations with ethnographic field analysis and research, this book examines how white Greek letter organizations help reshape the conceptual boundaries of society's most foundational relationship categories.