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2) Wonder boys
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During a single weekend, college professor Grady Tripp scrambles to gather together a life that has suddenly reeled out of control. An unfinished novel, a stolen car, a murdered pet and a failing marriage are just a few of the crises piling up.
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2004], c1995
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (148 min.; 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Oliver, a university lecturer with an obsession for anagrams and crosswords, has been a question-setter for "Mastermind". When made redundant by the new Vice-Chancellor of the New University (his former Polytechnic) in a general restructuring of the university, Oliver decides to use his new-found freedom to search for his favourite crossword compiler, known only by the pseudonym of "Aristotle". When he locates "Aristotle's" Welsh home, he is horrified...
4) The maidens
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
"Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered...
5) Six years
Author
Description
Harboring an enduring love for Natalie six years after her marriage to another man, Jake Sanders learns of his rival's death and attends the funeral only to discover that Natalie is not the woman she seemed to be, a situation that compels a determined search for answers.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
While visiting his and his wife's closest friends, John and Sophie, a creative writing professor sleeps with Sophie, but instead of succumbing to his failures as a teacher, writer and husband, he believes a love affair could be the answer to earning everything he needs to be set for life.
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 161 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A posthumous double volume of the influential author's first and last written works, published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of his birth, includes the bitter satire "Basic training" and the unfinished final novel "If God were alive today".
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
10) God's not dead
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 114 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the debate of the ages; this time, held in a seemingly insignificant venue, but the outcome, as always, will be life-changing. A Christian college freshman Josh Wheaton and his atheist Philosophy Professor, hold court on the existence of God. To pass the course, Josh must prove to the class that God is alive and well. This dare could cost him his relationships, his career, even his future, but Josh stands up for his faith and takes on the challenge....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular...
Author
Series
Rosie novels (Graeme Simsion) volume 1
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Description
Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
13) Creep
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 357 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Attempting to end her affair with graduate student Ethan Wolfe, Professor Sheila Tao is horrified to discover Ethan's mental instability, a situation that is complicated by his knowledge of compromising information about her personal life.
15) Murder is an art
Author
Series
Professor Sally Good mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 22 cm.
16) Arcadia
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
509 pages ; 25 cm
Description
n 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie. One day, while chasing Lytten's cat, Rosie encounters a doorway in his cellar. She steps through and finds herself in an idyllic, pastoral land where Storytellers are revered above all others. There she meets...
Author
Series
Something new volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 18 cm.
Author
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Description
"The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it’s...
19) 13 1/2
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Formats
Description
In present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life until she encounters architect Marshall Marchand, a lifelong bachelor who spends most of his time with his brother Danny. When Polly's two young daughters from her previous marriage are likewise taken with Marshall, she marries him. But then an ominous prediction by a New Orleans tarot card reader proclaims that Polly will murder her husband, and...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 25 cm
Description
As a creative writing professor in a bucolic Vermont town, Gil's quiet life is indelibly changed when he receives shocking news: His sister, Sharon, and her husband have been killed in a car accident, and their only son, seventeen-year-old Matthew, is coming to live with Gil and his family. It's with apprehension that Gil and his wife, Molly, greet Matthew. Yes, he has just lost both his parents. But they haven't seen him in seven years, and the last...
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