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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
2) Still Alice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life as her concept of self gradually slips away.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An English professor struggling for tenure discovers that her ex-fiance has just become the president of her college--and her new boss--in this whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic Persuasion. Anne Corey is about to get schooled. An English professor in California, she's determined to score a position on the coveted tenure track at her college. All she's got to do is get a book deal, snag a promotion, and boom! She's in. But then...
4) In her day
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Takes a loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early seventies. Elegant art history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains transcend lust—until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flush with the arrogance of youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a sexual and ideological inferno. Ilse campaigns to get Carole to join The Movement, but forty-four-year-old Carole and her zany peers have twenty...
5) The bullet
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Caroline Cashion, a professor of French literature at Georgetown University, is stunned when an MRI reveals that she has a bullet lodged near the base of her skull. It makes no sense: she has never been shot. She has no entry wound. No scar. When she confronts her parents, they initially profess bewilderment. Then, over the course of one awful evening, she learns the truth: she was adopted when she was three years old, after her real parents were...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jane Howard is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo, and she becomes pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a great welcome surprise--but when a devastating turn of events tears her existence apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and leave the world. Just when she has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for some sort of personal...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Every day of her life Julia Rich lives with the memory of a horrible accident she caused long ago. In the years since, she has tried to hide her guilt in the quiet routine of teaching at a small South Carolina college, avoiding close relationships with family and would-be friends. But one day a phone call from Carmen, a niece she has never met, disrupts her carefully controlled world. Carmen is a study in contrasts--comical yet wise, sunny yet contemplative,...
Author
Series
MacKade brothers volume 4
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Shane MacKade enjoyed everything about women-the look of them, the smell of them, the taste of them. So the last thing he expected was to become a one-woman man. And even more surprising is that it's the Ph. D.-toting academic Rebecca McKnight who has him headed for a fall. Could Shane's days as a bachelor be coming to an end?
11) 13 1/2
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Polly Deschamps's happiness upon marrying Marshall Marchand soon turns to fear as his moods darken--due, Polly believes, to the sway of Marshall's brother, Danny--and she wonders if the brothers' dark secret has anything to do with the infamous "Butcher Boy" murders of 1971.
12) River Road
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When one of her students is killed in a hit-and-run on River Road, it raises memories of Nan Lewis's own daughter, killed in a similar accident six years prior. And because Nan has damage to her car after hitting a deer while driving home from a faculty holiday party that same night, she becomes a suspect. In the days following the accident, Nan finds herself shunned by the community--and begins to suspect that the two accidents are connected.
13) The good ones
Author
Series
Happily ever after volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Ryder Copeland is an accomplished architect and one heck of a father, not to mention tall and sexy. He's everything a hero should be, and Lord knows, Maisy Kelly has read enough of her great-aunt Eloise's romance novels to recognize one when she sees one. But like all fairy tales, Maisy can't help but wonder if this Prince Charming is too good to be true. Ryder is drawn to the shy, curly haired professor who hires him to convert the Victorian house...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A freshman in college, Mallory is reeling from her mother's recent death. She sees the woman for the first time at the university's gym, immediately entranced; before long, they begin sleeping together in secret. Self-possessed, successful, brilliant, and aloof: the woman is everything Mallory wants... and wants to be. Mallory retreats from the rest of the world, solidifying a sense of aloneness that has both haunted and soothed her since childhood...
Author
Series
Sometimes in love volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
English professor Bonnie Blythe expects her life to play out like her favorite novels, especially now that her long-term boyfriend has finally proposed. So when a shocking discovery leads Bonnie to end her engagement, she decides to close the book on love. But the plot thickens when a brand-new character enters the scene—and quickens Bonnie's heart. With his brilliant blue eyes, sexy accent, and irresistible charm, Theo Wharton is like a romantic...
16) The black hour
Author
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why? All she wants is for life to get back to normal, but normal is looking hard to come by. She's thirty-eight and hobbles with a cane. Her first student...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises--and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself...In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, PhillipaMaakestad--long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter--grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching...
Author
Series
Ronnie Raven Mystery volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
With the help of her drama professor best friend and a campus cop who may be a new romantic interest, behavioral psychology professor Ronnie Raven must find the killer of an unpopular fellow professor to prevent the crime from being pinned on herself.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba, the sun-kissed island off the Italian coast, with her best friend and his movie-star boyfriend. Once settled into a luxurious seaside resort, Lizzie has to make big decisions about her future, and she needs the one thing she may be running out of: time. She leaves the yacht-owners and celebrities...
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