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99 Thoughts for College-Age People
Chuck Bomar
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The transition from high school to college is usually the most dramatic in young people's lives. In this humorous and thought-provoking resource, Chuck Bomar offers up pearls of wisdom gained over years of personal and professional experience. It's great as a graduation gift, as a college freshman small group discussion starter, or as any number of other uses. However you put it to work, you'll be sure to save some young adults some pain, money, and from foot fungus.

Peterson's 440 Great Colleges for Top Students 2- 29th edition
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Get the facts about 440 great colleges without having to sit in front of a computer and wade through site after site, page after page. Find the pertinent information for each college, including contact info, academic information, student body and accepted student stats, facilities and resources, campus life & safety information, and sometimes even a short letter from the college. A full list of majors for each college is also provided in the back. 540 pages, softcover. 29th Edition. 2009.

100 Answers to 100 Questions Every Graduate Should Know
Lila Empson
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You've graduated on to the rest of your life. Now what? Written by those who've been there, 100 Answers to 100 Questions Every Graduate Should Know gives you Bible-based, reliable answers to life's biggest and most important questions. Paperback.

College 101: Campus Life for Christians
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College 101 is filled with practical advice on preparing for life on campus. Because this book was developed by college students, its words of advice and counsel sound genuine to the reader. Developed from their personal experiences, the writings provide a perspective that no other can. Since the authors are also active leaders in campus ministry, their advice reflects Christian beliefs and prepares the reader for the challenges that a Christian faces on campus.

Teens Talk Getting... to College-101 True Stories from Kids
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark
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Don't stress! Chicken Soup for the Soul is here with emotional support for that stress-filled season of college applications. With stories from students who've been through the process, kids will relate to the common occurrences of SAT & ACT madness, parental pressure & support, stress, interviews, gap years, and other facets of the college application process. 421 pages, softcover.

College Prep Genius DVD
Jean Burk
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Preparing for college can be one of the most stressful times for a homeschooling family! Help prepare yourself and your student with CollegePrepGenuis from The Homeschool Channel. Learn how to get scholarships, discover common SAT and PSAT myths that can be detrimental to a student's score, how to build a homeschool transcript, and more.

I'm a Graduate, Now What? Step Into Your Future-Live Out Your Dreams
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Before the cheers of "Congratulations!" taper off and the cap and gown are stored away, give your favorite grads inspiration to propel them into the future! With its practical insights, godly advice, motivational action steps, spirit-lifting stories, beautiful poems, and encouraging letters, this book offers young adults a faith-based springboard into success! 256 pages, hardcover from Howard.

Campus Voices: A Student-to-Student Guide to College Life
Paul Buchanan & Paula Miller, comps.
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College students face a world of adjustment---including thriving spiritually in the midst of chaos---as they take on campus life. Written by students for students, this collection of real-life reflections takes an honest look at the most common difficulties and opportunities your young adults will encounter. Includes recommended Scripture readings and journaling space. 208 pages, softcover from Regal.

Campus Chronicles-101 Real College Stories From Real College Students
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark
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College life can be fun, stressful, exciting and educational in more ways than one. Campus Chronicles is a book for any current or prospective college student who wants to know what really goes on in the dorms and in the classroom. Story topics range from academic, like studying abroad and picking majors, to partying and life choices. Read about other college student's spring breaks, personal growth, relationships with family and significant others, transferring schools, money woes, and alternative paths. Campus Chronicles is about growing up, making choices, learning lessons, and making the best of your last years as a student.

Peterson's Paying for College: Answers to All Your Questions
Del Franz
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The logistics of paying for college can be daunting. Have a helping hand with Peterson's guide to paying for college, with chapters on the basics of financial aid, FAFSA, Pell Grants, Stafford Loans, repayment, scholarships & grants, trimming college costs, CLEP, and other financial considerations that come with college, including trips home! A list of the top 19 questions asked and stories from real-life families provide bite-sized advice to easily digest and put to use! 197 pages, softcover, with glossary.

College Bound on Solid Ground
Kelsey Phillips
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College challenges who you are and what you believe. If you are on your way to or already in college, this book will give you all the tools you need to be successful, safe, and solid in your faith throughout your college experience and beyond. Author Kelsey Phillips provides a wide variety of biblical, statistical, and practical information, including:

Ways to grow in the four areas in which Jesus grew as a young adult: wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and men

How to create a workable course schedule

Choosing a Major

Being a good roommate

Making the most of existing and new relationships

101 crazy, fun, and random things to do

Student to Student: A Guide to College Life
Paul Buchanan, Paula Miller
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Student to Student is a collection of reflections that takes an honest look at the most common pitfalls and opportunities that life on campus affords. Written by college students from over 20 Christian and secular institutions, each entry opens a window into real-life campus experiences. In the weekly readings, readers will instantly identify with students who are finding their way through the maze of college life while growing their relationship with God. You can thrive in college. Here's how.

1,001 Things Every College Student Needs to Know
Harry H. Harrison Jr.
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Put these proven survival tips at the top of your college-bound student's packing list! Harrison's trademark wit and wisdom provide practical advice on class enrollment, living on campus, study habits, and more. Everything young adults and their parents need to know to make a smooth transition to higher education---a great graduation gift! 304 pages, softover from Nelson.

Own Your Faith: The Adventure of Following Christ in College
Mark Tabb
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You're ready for College, but are you prepared for life? As you leave childhood behind, you've got to sort through all the stuff you've accumulated over the first eighteen years of your life. What do you keep and what do you get rid of? The same thing is true for making choices about your relationship with God. How do you learn to think for yourself and make your faith your own? Find out in this insightful and humorous guide. It'll help you through the process of grappling with and living out your convictions in a postmodern world. With an honest voice and a relevant approach, Mark Tabb helps you find a faith all your own, and gives you an invaluable blueprint to build your beliefs on truth, not just tradition. Make your faith your own through four key sections:

THINK: Wrestle with the big questions of life and think through the issues.
KNOW: Move from duty to desire in your relationship with God and find a more mature faith that goes beyond emotional experiences.
CONNECT: Know you are not alone by getting connected with others who share your passion.
SERVE: Make your faith real with words and actions

Everything You Need to Know Before College
Matthew Paul Turner
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Everything You Need to Know Before College is a one-stop survival guide to the opportunities, challenges, and potential pitfalls of college life. Packed with insights on everything from financial aid, and smart dating, to finding spiritual support, this book is a crash course in College Reality.

Own Your Faith: The Adventure of Following Christ in College
Mark Tabb
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As you make the move from the home to college, you enter a unique moment of new freedoms along with new challenges. But far removed from everything familiar, like family, church, and youth group, you'll soon find your childhood beliefs tested to the core. With an honest voice and a relevant approach, Mark Tabb helps you find a faith all your own, and gives you an invaluable blueprint to build your beliefs on truth, not just tradition.

Welcome to College: A Christ-Follower's Guide for the Journey
Jonathan Morrow
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Welcome to College is a well timed graduation gift for seniors. In this humorous handbook, Jonathan Morrow takes teens behind the scenes to help them grapple with tough campus issues. With lots of new experiences, college students need help and inspiration for growing and sharing their faith. Other issues addressed in this book are dating, syllabus shock, alcohol, movies, taking out loans, faith and learning, the Internet, homework, and resisting temptation. Each chapter has a "Big Ideas" section that summarizes the chapter and a handy list of related resources. Paperback.

Can You Keep Your Faith in College?
Abbie Smith
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College and Jesus. Can they go together? No one said it'd be easy. But here, voices from more than fifty campuses across America testify that it is possible. Can You Keep Your Faith in College? will help guide you through the best your s of your life. Form dorm and Greek life to dating and academia, every piece of the college equation becomes an opportunity for you, and your faith, to thrive.

Fish out of Water: Surviving and Thriving As a Christian on a Secular Campus
Abby Nye
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If you're a Christian heading to campus for the first time, there are several things you need to know about living out your faith while surrounded by atheistic professors. Abby Nye has written a fantastic guide for college students who find their faith and values under assault from Day 1. Learn just what to expect, and how to navigate through classes while maintaining a good GPA and a positive college experience.

How to Stay Christian in College
J. Budziszewski
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Warning: College can be hazardous to your spiritual health.
When you go to college, you're leaving behind your network of support and heading to a world with different perspectives, responsibilities, and expectations. Even if you're going to a "Christian" college, there's no guarantee you won't face challenges to your faith. So how do you stay a Christian in college? How do you stay open about your faith in the face of potential ridicule? A must-read for every college student, How to Stay a Christian in College will guide you through the maze of campus realities. J. Budziszewski discusses the foundations of the Christian faith and directly addresses different worldviews and myths that students encounter at college. Filled with quotes, statistics, resources, stories, and encouragement, it will equip you to conquer the dangers that lie ahead.

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Ask Me Anything: Provocative Answers for College Students
J. Budziszewski
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Go ahead, ask. A professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas, Dr. J. Budziszewski (aka Professor Theophilus) answers you piercing, real-life questionsthe same urgent questions he receives from students on campus or through his regular column on Boundless webzine at www.boundless.org. Resolve the questions central to your identity and worldview. Ask Me Anything will help you achieve personal insight about controversial topics and defend your point of view to a skeptical world. Read an excerpt.

Faith Bound: Prayers By & 4 College Students
Ellen Rosebrough(Ed.)
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Written by and for college students, this book of prayers focuses on contemporary issues. From various Christian backgrounds, cultures, and campuses, they share experiences, prayers, and reflections that help them cope with life's difficulties, rejoice in God's grace, and make the best decisions when faced with demanding choices. Paperback.

The Survival Guide for Christians on Campus: How to be Students and Disciples at the Same Time
Tony Campolo, William H. Willimon
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The contemporary college campus is filled with spiritual surprises, daily dilemmas, and difficult questions. Will the Christian faith hold up under the scrutiny of the new knowledge and ideas that bombarded students on the college campus? Tony Campolo and Will Willimon--college professors and seasons authors and speakers--insist that the Christian faith is not threatened by tough questions. They maintain that some of the greatest minds the human race has produced have put hard questions to Jesus and come away more firm in their faith and more convinced of its truth than ever before. Whether you are a committed Christian or one who is still exploring the Christian faith, this book will provide sound answers to difficult questions. Open this book and find the help and heart to walk into the jungle of campus life and walk out more than a conqueror.

Packin' Up and Headin' Out: Making the Most of Your College Adventure
John Bowling, Jill Bowling
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Who can resist the thrill of a new beginning? Certainly not recent high school graduates. And when college looms just around the corner, there are many life changes for students to consider. This book walks freshmen through the transition from high school to college by identifying and elaborating on the four keys to making the most of the college experience. John and Jill Bowling encourage students to make a fresh start personally, academically, socially, and spiritually, and the authors give helpful and positive insights into this major life transition.

The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict
Josh McDowell
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Christians today face growing challenges to show that their faith is both relevant and credible. In Josh McDowell's The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, you'll get the ammunition you need to defend your faith against the barrage of criticisms. This 760-page hardcover combines the two original best-selling volumes into one, maintaining their classic defense of the faith, yet answering new questions posed by today's culture.

Christian Apologetics
Norman L. Geisler
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College and seminary students can be equipped to understand and uphold the validity of the Christian faith. Avoiding the pitfalls of mere emotional arguments, it prepares students intellectually to withstand both the frontal attacks and subtle influences of other worldviews. The book is divided into three parts: surveying, verifying, and applying the unique claims of historical Christianity. 393 pages, softcover from Baker.

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