"Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend...

"Approaching College with Purpose is intended for the college success/first year experience course. This course provides students access to the resources and skills they need to be successful in college and beyond. The book focuses on these three key skills areas: communication, critical thinking, and collaboration"--

A guide designed to help parents with various aspects of their child's college experience, with tips, statistics, and stories from students, parents, and others, covering move-in, communication, grades, partying, budgeting, preparation, roommates, and more.

Thornton Melon's son is a college misfit, so Thornton tries to help by enrolling as a fellow freshman. Who cares if he never finished high school? Thornton has enough money to hire NASA to do his homework. But when he annoys his professor and steals his girlfriend, Thornton takes things a bit far.

"January fifteenth - the day all Americans receive their annual Universal Basic Income payment. For Hannah, a middle-aged mother, today is the anniversary of the day she took her two children and fled her abusive ex-wife. For Janelle, a young, broke journalist, today is another mind- numbing day interviewing passersby about the very policy she once opposed. For Olivia, a wealthy college freshman, today is 'Waste Day', when rich kids across the country...

Troubled college freshman Luke suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope. Charismatic and full of manic energy, Daniel helps Luke to achieve his dreams, before pushing him to the very edge of sanity and into a desperate struggle for control of his mind and his soul.

Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorn College, Lainey, Ji Sun, Alice, and Margaret quickly become inseparable. The leafy green campus they move through together, the idyllic window seat they share in their suite, and the passion and ferocity that school and independence awakens in them ignites an all-encompassing love with one another. But they soon find their bonds--forged in joy, and fused by fear--must weather...