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  • We are all made of molecules
    Author:
    Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin
    Summary:

    Thirteen-year-old Stewart Inkster is academically brilliant but "ungifted" socially. Fourteen-year-old Ashley Anderson is the undisputed "It" girl of grade nine, but her marks stink. Their worlds are about to collide when Stewart and...
  • The status game : on social position and how we use it
    Author:
    Storr, Will
    Summary:

    What makes us like some things and dislike others? What drives our political and moral biases? What shapes how we behave in a group? What makes you, you? For centuries, philosophers and scholars theorized that power and money were the...
  • The House of Mirth
    Author:
    Wharton, Edith
    Summary:

    Lily Bart enjoys an equitable standing within the New York City elite. Although she desires a comfortable life and has received generous proposals from wealthy suitors, Lily remains single with hope for an honest and loving marriage....
  • The Eliot girls
    Author:
    Bridge, Krista
    Summary:

    A gripping debut teeming with drama and scathing insight into the world of an all-girl private high school. For years, Audrey Brindle has dreamed of attending George Eliot Academy, the school where her mother, Ruth, has taught for a...
  • Status anxiety
    Author:
    De Botton, Alain
    Summary:

    Alain de Botton examines the origins of status anxiety--the universal anxiety about what others think of us--and reveals ingenious ways in which people have been able to overcome their worries in the search for happiness.
  • Serendipity Kit
    Author:
    Bailey, Connie
    Summary:

    Christopher "Kit" Britten drifts through life, partying with friends and spending his parents’ money. He hasn’t told them he’s gay, but he’s told all of his five sisters, and to keep from being harassed about responsibility, he works...
  • Gruff : a musical for three goats and a troll
    Author:
    Maxwell, Brooke, Palmer, Judd, Bátiz-Benét, Mercedes
    Summary:

    The grass really is greener on the other side. But a hideous troll has taken up residence under the bridge, and the promised land is forever unattainable ? if you're a goat born on the wrong side of the craggy chasm. The troll is soon...
  • Empire high untouchables : Empire High, book 1
    Author:
    Smoak, Ivy
    Summary:

    The Untouchables. That's what everyone calls them. At least, it's my best friend's nickname for them. And since she's the only one that talks to me at my new school, I'll take her word for it. The nickname probably comes from the fact...
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