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Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she's even better at getting away with murder. Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she's avoided drawing attention to herself - but as she's preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Scarlett insinuates...
Author
Series
Princess for Christmas volume 2
Language
English
Description
Maximillian von Hansburg, Baron of Laudon and heir to the Duke of Aquilla, is not having a merry Christmas. He’s been dumped by a princess, he’s unemployed, and his domineering father has sent him to New York to meet a prospective bride he has no interest in. In the city, he meets Dani Martinez, a smart (and gorgeous) professor he’s determined to befriend before their best friends marry in the Eldovian wedding of the century. Newly single, no-nonsense...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on Culture and Civilization, taught not for undergraduates...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"One daring to-do list and a crash course in flirtation turn a Type A overachiever's world upside down. When her flailing department lands on the university's chopping block, Professor Naya Turner's friends convince her to shed her frumpy cardigan for an evening on the town. For one night her focus will stray from her demanding job and she'll tackle a new kind of to-do list. When she meets a charming stranger in town on business, he presents the perfect...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After a lifetime of taking care of his impossible but irresistible sister and his cherished niece, Tom is ready to put himself first. An architect specializing in tiny houses, he finally has an opportunity to build his masterpiece—“his last shot at leaving a footprint on the dying planet.” Assuming, that is, he can stick to his resolution to keep the demands of his needy family at bay. Naturally, that’s when his phone rings. His niece, Cecily—the...
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Language
English
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"June 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Mitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid-fifties, is a French-language instructor at a private university in Tokyo. Her husband, whom she met in Paris, is a professor at another private university. He is having an affair with a much younger woman. In addition to her husband's infidelity, Mitsuki must deal with her ailing eighty-something mother, a demanding, self-absorbed woman who is far from the image of the patient, self-sacrificing Japanese...
Author
Series
Ones who got away volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Taryn Landry was there that awful night fourteen years ago when Long Acre changed from the name of a town to the title of a national tragedy. Everyone knows she lost her younger sister. No one knows it was her fault. Since then, psychology professor Taryn has dedicated her life's work to preventing something like that from ever happening again. Falling in love was never part of the plan ... Shaw Miller has spent more than a decade dealing with the...
Author
Publisher
Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"English professor and aspiring novelist, Grace Warner spends her days teaching four sections of "Beowulf for Cretins" to bored and disinterested students at one of New England's "hidden ivy" colleges. Not long after she is dumped by her longtime girlfriend, Grace meets the engaging and mysterious Abbie on a cross-country flight. Sparks fly on and off the plane as the two strangers give in to one night of reckless passion with no strings attached,...
14) River Road
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a professor accused of killing her favorite student in a hit-and-run accident.
15) Honest doubt
Author
Series
Kate Fansler mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When the misogynistic and offensive Charles Haycock, professor of Victorian literature, is found murdered, his son hires private investigator Estelle "Woody" Woodhaven to find the killer, and Woody enlists the assistance of academic sleuth Kate Fansler
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of Oxford's Bodleian Library, scholar Diana Bishop requests a manuscript called Ashmole 782 in the course of her research. Coming from an old and distinguished lineage of witches, Diana senses that the ancient book might be bound up with magic - but she herself wants nothing to do with sorcery; and after making a few notes on its curious images, she banishes it quickly back to the stacks. But what she doesn't know is that the old...
17) Extra credit
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly hosting her in-laws during a birthday party for her twin stepdaughters, Alison Bergeron investigates when the girls' estranged uncle gives them a lavish gift and is subsequently found dead.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Charlotte McGanley knows happiness. Just ask anyone who's read Perfect Happiness, her bestselling book about how she, a busy mother and professor, used her no-nonsense positive psychology research to brighten her own life. She always pictured her career beginning and ending in the halls of academia, but now she's become a bit of a self-help guru. No one is more surprised by this than Charlotte herself, who has secretly never been more miserable....
19) Murder 101
Author
Series
Murder 101 mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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English professor Allison Bergeron has left the chaos of Manhattan for a small college in the Bronx when her car is stolen. The police drop by with news that they found her beat-up Volvo ... with the body of one of her students in the trunk.
Author
Series
Pepper Keane series volume 1
Publisher
RB Large Print
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A brutal rape and murder. A robbery and bullet to the head. An apparent suicide. Three victims, three different states, and three apparently unrelated cases. But when Boulder math professor Jayne Smyers discovers each victim had been researching the geometric shapes know as fractals, she knows it was not coincidence. After federal agents fail to link the deaths, Jayne hires Nederland private eye Pepper Keane-former JAG with a Diet Coke addiction,...
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