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| 2013 | OverDrive | Pegasus Books | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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A "witty, piercingly relevant" novel of a father and son that "perfectly captures the prep school milieu" of NYC and over-medicated children (Publishers Weekly).
Every afternoon Sean Benning picks up his son, Toby, on the marble steps that lead into the prestigious Bradley School. Everything at Bradley is accelerated—3rd graders read at the 6th grade level, they have labs and facilities to rival most universities, and
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2014. | First American edition. | G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) | 460 pages ; 24 cm. | English | Available 10 copies, 4 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F MORIA Shirlington - Adult Fiction has 2 F MORIA |
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2014] | Unabridged. | Penguin Audio | 11 audio discs (840 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks CD F MORIA Central - Adult Audiobooks has 3 CD F MORIA Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks CD F MORIA |
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| 2014, [2014] | RBdigital | Unabridged. | Recorded Books, Inc | 1 | English | Available Online RBdigital |
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online 25 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 25 |
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| ©2014. | Thorndike Press | 679 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Large Type LT F MORIA |
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Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.
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| [2015] | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | xv, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color ; 24 cm | English | Available Westover - Adult Biography B WILSON T |
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Class Mom volume 1
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2017. | First edition. | Henry Holt and Company | 290 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F GELMA Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F GELMA Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction F GELMA |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Henry Holt and Co | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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| 2017. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 453 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available Shirlington - Adult Large Type LT F GELMA |
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Laurie Gelman's clever debut novel about a year in the life of a kindergarten class mom—a brilliant send-up of the petty and surprisingly cutthroat terrain of parent politics.
Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom—or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it's her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max—this
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016. | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | Simon & Schuster | 275 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F BERNE Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F BERNE |
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"A "brilliantly done" (Sunday Times, London) comedy of manners that explores the unease behind the manicured lawns of suburban America from the Orange Prize-winning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood. Littlefield, Massachusetts, named one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America, full of psychologists and college professors, is proud of its fine schools, its girls' soccer teams, its leafy streets, and charming village center. Yet no sooner has...
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019. | Riverhead Books | 452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available 19 copies, 15 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult New Fiction has 8 F HOLSI |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 8 copies, 10 people are on the wait list. |
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"Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read."-Meg Wolitzer.
"This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and...
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| 2006. | Penguin Press | 260 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available Westover - Adult Nonfiction 305.9 QUART |
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| 2019. | First Atria Books hardcover edition. | Atria Books | xxi, 323 pages ; 24 cm | English | Checked Out |
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"Combining the humor and warmth of Bringing Up Baby with the insight of The Smartest Kids in the World, World Class is a firsthand exploration of how American schools are failing our children, and what parents can learn from the Asian education system to help our children excel in today's competitive world"--
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