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- A duchess by midnight / by Michaels, Charis.;
- Miss Drewsmina "Drew" Trelayne seeks the assistance of Ian Clayback, the Duke of Lachlan, to open a finishing school.
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Nobility; Scandals; Girls' schools; Man-woman relationships;
- Listen to the wind : the story of Dr. Greg and Three cups of tea / by Mortenson, Greg.; Roth, Susan L.;
- Includes bibliographical references.Discusses Greg Mortenson's first building project in Pakistan which was the building of a school.LSC
- Subjects: Mortenson, Greg; Girls' schools; Girls' schools; Humanitarian assistance, American; Humanitarian assistance, American;
- © c2009., Penguin,
- Afraid / by Jackson, Lisa.; Ivy, Alexandra.; Childs, Lisa.;
- A trio of never-before-released, linked novellas about dark secrets and revenge, all connected by St. Cecilia's School for Girls. An elite boarding school and a haven for the daughters of the rich and famous, it's a place where scandals are buried and secrets hidden. But for three former students, evil is about to resurface. LUCY. Lucy Champagne was sent to St. Cecilia's after her movie-star mother was brutally attacked by her sleazy boyfriend, Ray Watkins. Lucy's damning testimony landed Ray a twenty-five-year sentence. But now, Ray is free. And he's going to find Lucy and make her pay, no matter how far and how fast she runs. RAYNE. Rayne Taylor found unexpected happiness at St. Cecilia's, until her roommate, Natalie, committed suicide. Only when Rayne finds a box of mementoes from that time does she realize how wrong she may have been about Natalie's death--and how far someone will go to keep the truth hidden. ERIN. Erin MacDonald remembers little about the long-ago night she and her sister, Anna Beth, were kidnapped. While Erin was found safe, Anna Beth vanished forever. Now Erin has reluctantly come back to the family estate, where Detective Rafe Montego hopes to finally crack the case. But as flashes of Erin's memory reemerge, she learns how deep the danger goes.
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novellas.; Linked stories.; Girls' schools; Boarding schools; Secrecy; Kidnapping victims;
- Plain bad heroines : a novel / by Danforth, Emily M.,author.;
- Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever-but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way. Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the "haunted and cursed" Gilded Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled-or perhaps just grimly exploited-and soon it's impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.
- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Lesbian fiction.; Girls' schools; Horror films;
- Nina and the mysterious mailbox / by Dumas, Marti.;
- A school election. A mysterious mailbox. And a letter from . . .Cleopatra? Middle school is so weird. Nina is determined to help her best friend Maya win the race for 6th grade representative. But when she uses her robotics skills to spy on Maya's opponent, the girls wind up in detention. There, they are asked to write a letter to a woman from history. Nina pours her heart out to Cleopatra, and instead of throwing the letter away so her parents don't find it, she slips it into a battered old mailbox she and Maya find in the woods. It was all just a game . . . until a giant scroll arrives at Nina's house, signed by Cleopatra herself! Do the girls really have a pen pal from 2,000 years ago? Will their friend Zoe ever speak to them again? Why is their science teacher acting so oddly? And what on Earth is a time taco?
- Subjects: Friendship; Mailboxes; Middle school girls;
- Yellowjackets. [videorecording] / by Brown, Jasmin Savoy,1994-actor.; Cypress, Tawny,1976-actor.; Eaton, Courtney,1996-actor.; Hewson, Liv,1995-actor.; Kole, Warren,1977-actor.; Krueger, Steven,actor.; Lewis, Juliette,actor.; Lynskey, Melanie,actor.; Nélisse, Sophie,actor.; Purnell, Ella,1996-actor.; Ricci, Christina,actor.; Thatcher, Sophie,actor.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
- Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Ella Purnell, Sophie Nelisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson.The Yellowjackets barely made it through summer in the woods, but now as winter begins to bite, we'll see if hunger and desperation turn into full-on psychosis. While there may or may not be a dark and powerful force inhabiting the wilderness, their survival could depend upon what they choose to believe. Meanwhile, twenty-five years later, each survivor must ask themselves Is the darkness coming for them, or is it coming from them?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Airplane crash survival; Female friendship; High school girls; Soccer teams; Wilderness survival;
- For private home use only.
- 13 reasons why. [videorecording] / by Langford, Katherine,actor.; Minnette, Dylan,1996-actor.; Navarro, Christian,actor.; Yorkey, Brian,creator.; Netflix (Firm),production company.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
- Dylan Minnette, Katherine Langford, Christian Navarro.After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate recieves a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Suicide; Teenage girls; High schools; High school students;
- For private home use only.
- Good girls lie / by Ellison, J. T.,author.;
- "Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, The Goode School is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. The boarding school of choice for daughters of the rich and influential, it accepts only the best and the brightest. Its elite status, long-held traditions and honor code are ideal for preparing exceptional young women for brilliant futures at Ivy League universities and beyond. But a stranger has come to Goode, and this ivy has turned poisonous. In a world where appearances are everything, as long as students pretend to follow the rules, no one questions the cruelties of the secret societies or the dubious behavior of the privileged young women who expect to get away with murder. But when a popular student is found dead, the truth cannot be ignored. Rumors suggest she was struggling with a secret that drove her to suicide. But look closely ... because there are truths and there are lies, and then there is everything that really happened. J.T. Ellison's pulse-pounding new novel examines the tenuous bonds of friendship, the power of lies and the desperate lengths people will go to to protect their secrets"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Teenage girls; Family secrets; Secret societies; Girls' schools; Preparatory school students; Preparatory schools; Suicide; Murder;
- Carrie / by King, Stephen,1947-author.;
- This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged."Carrie may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal ... until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget."--Back cover.
- Subjects: Horror fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Banned book sanctuary.; Teenage girls; Psychokinesis; High school students; High school students.; Psychokinesis.; Teenage girls.;
- The illness lesson : a novel / by Beams, Clare,author.;
- Sarah Waters meets Red Clocks in this searing novel, set at an all-girl school in 19th century Massachusetts, which probes the timeless question: who gets to control a woman's body and why. The year is 1871. In Ashwell, Massachusetts, at the farm of Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, a mysterious flock of red birds descends. Samuel, whose fame as a philosopher has waned in recent years, takes the birds' appearance as an omen that the time is ripe for his newest venture. He will start a school for young women, guiding their intellectual development as he has so carefully guided his daughter's. Despite Caroline's misgivings, Samuel's vision-- revolutionary, as always; noble, as always; full of holes, as always-- takes shape. It's not long before the students begin to manifest bizarre symptoms. Rashes, fits, headaches, verbal tics, night wanderings. In desperation, the school turns to the ministering of a sinister physician-- based on a real historic treatment-- just as Caroline's body, too, begins its betrayal. As the girls' conditions worsens, long-buried secrets emerge, and Caroline must confront the all-male, all-knowing authorities around her, the ones who insist the voices of the sufferers are unreliable. In order to save herself, Caroline may have to destroy everything she's ever known. Written in intensely vivid prose and brimming with psychological insight, The Illness Lesson is a powerful exploration of women's bodies, women's minds, and the time-honored tradition of doubting both.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Fathers and daughters; Girls' schools;
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