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"Struggling UC Santa Cruz grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is trying to write his thesis about the Bard. Kind of ..." "Cut off by his father for laziness, and desperate for dough, Willie agrees to deliver a single giant, psychedelic mushroom to a mysterious collector, making himself an unwitting target in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs." "Meanwhile, would-be playwright (and oppressed Catholic) William Shakespeare is eighteen years old and stuck...

Accepted into a special study program at MIT with Professor Irene Anderson, Claire Danvers works on developing a technology to block the mental powers of vampires only to unleash unexpected forces when she tests the machine on live subjects.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins es un estudiante graduado en Vermont cuando descubre un misterioso libro escondido entre un montón. Mientras pasa las páginas, lee algo extraño: la historia de su propia infancia. Desconcertado por este libro inexplicable y desesperado por comprender cómo se grabó su propia vida, Zachary descubre una serie de pistas, una abeja, una llave y una espada, que lo llevan a una fiesta de disfraces en Nueva York, a un club secreto,...

"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything...

Struggling to come to terms with a grave medical diagnosis, Heather Nelson is determined to forgo traditional medicine--to her father's chagrin--in hopes of finding answers and healing in Amish country. But first, she offers to drive her Amish friend, Grace Byler, to Ohio in order to find Grace's mother. Will mother and daughter, and one seriously ill graduate student, find the answers they long for? Or will "the telling" cause them all further...

For anthropology graduate student Sam Delgado, headed to the wilds of Wyoming, this is his last chance to save his graduate career. He and his urban classmates see this as the adventure of a lifetime: They are going to horse-pack in the wilderness to map and test a high-altitude archaeological site. Until a cyber-attack collapses the American banking system, and an already fractured nation descends into anarchy and chaos. All credit frozen, Sam and...