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America's Best Kept College Secrets is an affectionate profile of more than one hundred colleges and universities across the country that share four important characteristics: 1. Each one is a superior institution- exciting, challenging and welcoming. 2. Each one has an excellent reputation and is highly regarded by those who know colleges. 3. Each one accepts more than 50% of applicants and retains more than 80% of enrolled students. 4. Each one is a college or university of quality interested in applicants from outside its region. This lively and informal guide offers an uncommonly candid...

A WHIFF OF MURDER The Whiffenpoofs of Yale are the oldest and most celebrated collegiate a cappella singing group in the nation. The legendary group selects only fourteen seniors, musical stars - The best of the best. Loc Quang Pham arrives at Yale with one ambition - to become a Whiffenpoof. Raised in Oakland, Loc has a long way to travel to take his place at Yale, and establish himself as one of the most talented prospects in the a cappella scene. Loc expected competition, hard work, and a grueling schedule of tours and performances; he did not expect murder. The Whiffenpoofs: Gentlemen...

For Alex Carter, Alford School had been a safe haven and the world in which his character had been forged. He owed a debt of gratitude to his school and to the fine people who had befriended him when he was at his most unlovely. Ten years into his career as a boarding school teacher, Alex is called back to his old school. Much has changed and much remains the same. In a year of sunlight and shadows, Alex is challenged as a teacher and as a friend, discovering that his world has been much more complicated than he had imagined. The school acts a door to memory, bringing the boy he had been into...

"On the first Saturday in October, Jo Benjamin awoke, pulled her blanket closer, and thought about color." Jo Benjamin, emotionally guarded wife and mother, is a woman who loves to quilt. She has struggled in accepting love and friendship, but finds in quilting a capacity for gratitude and for embracing the gifts her life presents. "Maybe she could have recovered without quilting - for example, books had always been a refuge for Jo - but there was something about the quilting midwifery that went beyond hobby or pastime; she was crafting herself out of scraps and tatters. Each project called...