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Carrie White is a mousy, shy girl repressed girl who is mercilessly teased by her fello classmates. Her mother is a religious fanatic who walks around in a black cape and imposes her rigid restrictions on Carrie. After Carrie unexpectedly has her first period in the school showers, she is teased by the girls more ruthlessly than before. The gym teacher punishes the girls that were involved and one of them, Sue... (more)

Goat: A Memoir

by Brad Land

Reeling from a terrifying assault that has left him physically injured and psychologically shattered, nineteen-year-old Brad Land must also contend with unsympathetic local police, parents who can barely discuss “the incident” (as they call it), a brother riddled with guilt but unable to slow down enough for Brad to keep up, and the feeling that he’ll never be normal again. When Brad’s brother enrolls at Clemson... (more)

Too Far

by Mike Lupica

A high school sportswriter gets wind of extreme hazing on the basketball team, and turns to city newsman Ben Mitchell for help. The two will discover just how far a town will go to get a state championship.

Something Dangerous

by Patrick Redmond

Kirkston Abbey is no place for weak or sensitive boys. Jonathan Palmer cant believe his good fortune when Richard Rokeby seeks out his friendship. Rokeby is everything Jonathan is not: wealthy, strong, handsome, aloofeven the professors cant touch him. As the bond between the two boys deepens, Rokeby grows increasingly possessive. Soon, Jonathan comes to realize that there is something not quite right about his... (more)

Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking

Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking

by Hank Nuwer

Well known author Hank Nuwer (Broken Pledges), in a hard-hitting investigation of hazing and binge drinking in Greek fraternities and sororities, recounts the breakdown of common sense, civility, and leadership in American college fraternal life. What forces young men and women to accept inhuman, degrading rituals in order to belong to a social club, sorority, or fraternity? Are they the same forces that ... (more)

The Goats (Aerial Fiction)

by Brock Cole

Fifteenth anniversary of the classic On the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of The Goats , Farrar, Straus and Giroux is proud to reissue a new paperback edition featuring Brock Cole’s original hardcover jacket art as well as the black-and-white pen-and-ink chapter openings.

Making the Team: Inside the World of Sports Initiations and Hazing

Making the Team: Inside the World of Sports Initiations and Hazing

Media attention has recently raised public awareness of hazing rituals, which has generated curiosity, interest, and debate about hazing as an initiation practice. Making the Team is a ground-breaking collection of contemporary perspectives on this topic. This book provides a theoretical analysis of hazing from a sociological perspective, both in the United States and in Canada. It is designed to provide an... (more)

Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada's National Sport

Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada's National Sport

by Laura Robinson

The world of junior and professional hockey will never be the same since Sheldon Kennedy of the Boston Bruins revealed that, while a junior player with the Swift Current Broncos, he was molested more than 300 times by his coach, Graham James. This revelation, and James’s subsequent conviction, has thrown a spotlight on the other “Hockey Night in Canada,” where abuse of and by young players is appallingly common. ... (more)

We'll Never Tell

by Kayla Perrin

“I was thinking of some kind of initiation. Tailored just for her. The kind that will teach her a lesson not to mess with me.” --from We’ll Never Tell Shandra James is a man stealer. It’s a sport to her, a game that she always wins. As a pledge of the exclusive Alpha Sigma Pi sorority, she should know her place, and know not to throw herself at a sister’s boyfriend. But she’s marked a new target: Henry Reid.... (more)

Catholic, Reluctantly (John Paul 2 High)

Catholic, Reluctantly (John Paul 2 High)

by Christian M. Frank

George Peterson would rather wrestle at a big high school, but he has to go to a new school run by Catholic parents: John Paul 2 High. Only seven kids in the whole school! The building is falling apart. Weird things keep happening. And then there s Allie Weaver, drop-dead gorgeous, barely Catholic. Why did her parents suddenly transfer her to John Paul 2 High? And what is she so afraid of?

The Chocolate WarRobert Cormier

The Chocolate War

by Robert Cormier

At a private school in a small town theres an organization of students that pretty much run the school, they call themselves the Vigils and noone wants to mess with them. But at an annual chocolate sale, the students had to sel 50 boxes thanks to the vigils but a boy named Jerry Renault decided to not sell chocolates so hes at an all out war with them. What ever will happen to him.......

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Carrie

A Novel of a Girl with a Frightening Power

by Stephen King