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College Admissions

  • College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students

    • Selingo, Jeffrey

  • Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

    • Bruni, Frank

  • Dear Parents: A Field Guide for College Preparation

    • McGee, Jon

  • The Truth About College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together

    • Barnard, Brennen

  • Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges

    • Pope, Loren​

  • The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

    • Karabel, Jerome

  • The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College

    • Steinberg, Jacques

  • College Admission Essentials

    • Sawyer, Ethan

  • College Essay Essentials

    • Sawyer, Ethan

  • The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation

    • Aguilar, Elena

  • The Stressed Years of Their Lives: Helping Your Kid Survive and Thrive During Their College Years

    • Hibbs, Janet & Rostain, Anthony

  • There is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow

    • Selingo, Jeffrey

  • Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

    • Selingo, Jeffrey

  • Fiske Guide to Colleges

    • Fiske, Edward

  • The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us

    • Tough, Paul

  • The Race Between Education and Technology

    • Goldin, Claudia & Katz, Lawrence

  • Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education

    • Grawe, Nathan

  • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

    • Lukianoff, Greg & Haidt, Jonathan​

  • The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

    • Sandel, Michael

  • The Hidden Ivies: 63 of America's Top Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities

    • Greene, Howard & Greene, Matthew

  • Cool Colleges: For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different

    • Asher, Donald

  • The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

    • Lieber, Ron​

  • The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting from Senior Year to College Life

    • Kastner, Laura & Wyatt, Jennifer

Equity, Equality, Diversity

  • Rising Class: How Three First-Generation College Students Conquered Their First Year

    • Miller, Jennifer

  • The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

    • Golden, Daniel, Brand

  • The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America

    • Carnevale, Schmidt, Strohl

  • The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions: A Conversation About Education, Parenting, and Race

    • Fields, Timothy & Herndon-Brown, Shereem

  • The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

    • Jack, Anthony Abraham

  • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure And Material Advantage Are Creating A Generation Of Disconnected And Unhappy Kids

    • Levine, Madeline

  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race

    • Tatum, Beverly Daniel

  • Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal

    • Korn, Melissa & Levitz, Jennifer

  • Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

    • Hooks, Bell

  • The Feminine Mystique

    • Friedan, Betty

  • The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

    • Wolf, Naomi

Business, Startups, Entrepeneurship

  • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

    • Ries, Eric

  • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

    • Voss, Chris

  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    • Thiel, Peter

  • Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

    • Heath, Chip

  • Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

    • Godin, Seth

  • The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

    • Ferriss, Timothy

  • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

    • Ferriss, Timothy

  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

    • Collins, Jim

  • Winning Her Business: How to Transform the Customer Experience for the World's Most Powerful Consumers

    • Brennan, Bridget

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