Here Lies Bridget

Bridget Duke is the uncontested ruler of her school. The meanest girl with the biggest secret insecurities. And when new girl Anna Judge arrives, things start to fall apart for Bridget: friends don't worship as attentively, teachers don't fall for her wide-eyed "who me?" look, expulsion looms ahead and the one boy she's always loved—Liam Ward—can barely even look at her anymore. When a desperate Bridget drives too fast and crashes her car, she ends up in limbo, facing everyone she's wronged and walking a few uncomfortable miles in their shoes. Now she has only one chance to make a last impression. Though she might end up dead, she has one last shot at redemption and the chance to right the wrongs she's inflicted on the people who mean the most to her. And Bridget's about to learn that, sometimes, saying you're sorry just isn't enough….

When new girl Callie arrives at exclusive boarding school Manderley Academy, she finds she is filling a vacancy made available by the disappearance of beautiful Becca Normandy. Inspired by Daphne Du Maurier's "Rebecca."

Mean girls. Girls who gossip, girls who stare. Girls who give you the silent treatment. Girls who look down their noses at what you wear. Girls who know just the right way to get under your skin. Every high school has them. In Here Lies Bridget, Bridget Duke is the ruler of the school—the meanest girl around. She knows just what she wants, and she does whatever she feels like to get her way. But when things begin to fall apart, and then a freak accident sends Bridget into a strange limbo world run by her arch nemesis, will she be able to clean up her act? In New Girl, transferring to a new school—a preppy boarding school, no less—would have been hard for anyone. But when the new girl arrives, she realizes she's living in the shadow of the girl she's replaced—Becca, formerly the most popular girl in school before her mysterious disappearance the year before. But what really lay beneath missing party-girl Becca's pretty exterior? Get inside the world of the mean girl in these two timely novels by Paige Harbison.

Natalie and Brooke are best friends until one crazy night when Natalie crosses the line with Brooke's boyfriend, leading to a severe test of their friendship and leaving them asking questions about each other. Original.

"Aided by twenty-seven photographs, Schanke establishes Mercedes de Acosta's rightful place as a pioneer - and indeed a champion - in the early struggle for lesbian rights in this country. The famous portrayal of her as "that furious lesbian" should now be considered an admiring description rather than a scornful slur."--Jacket.