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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.
3) 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...
4) Six years
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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
Series
Rosie novels (Graeme Simsion) volume 1
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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.
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In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz, a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile, for her advice. These three very different people are...
10) Storm watch
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 23
Description
When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor’s vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor’s frozen and mutilated body. When he attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Richard is a successful college professor who gives up a steady stream of one-night-stands and beautiful undergrads for fatherhood with much younger Kate. Three years later when Kate falls in love with someone else and moves out, she sends her sister, Olivia, to make sure Richard is properly caring for their son. Assuming Richard is back to his irresponsible playboy lifestyle, Olivia is shocked when she starts to fall in love with him herself.
13) Irrational man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A philosophy professor experiences an existential crisis until he discovers new purpose in life when he begins dating one of his students.
14) Trajectory
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"In this pair of novellas and two stories, Russo's characters bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from most of his novels. In "Horseman," a tenured professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches--"And after that, who knew?" In "Intervention," a realtor facing an ominous medical prognosis finds himself in his father's shadow while he presses forward, or...
16) Mrs. God
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Description
"Esswood House. Home and estate of the Seneschal family, aristocratic patrons of the literary arts for well over a hundred years...There was always talk of a hidden secret in Esswood's past-and the Seneschal children were often so pale and sickly-but don't all English manor houses have a few ghost stories to call their own?" -- from cover.
18) Porterhouse blue
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in a fictional, all-male Cambridge college, this movie aims it's barbs at aristocrats, politicians, and TV reporters as well as academics. From Brian Eastman, the producer of Poirot, Rosemary & Thyme, and Traffik.
19) Killer instinct
Author
Series
Instinct (James Patterson) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The murder of an Ivy League professor pulls Dr. Dylan Reinhart out of his ivory tower and onto the streets of New York, where he reunited with his old partner, Detective Elizabeth Needham. As the worst act of terror since 9/11 strikes the city, a name on the casualty list rocks Dylan's world. Is his secret past about to be brought to light? As the terrorist attack unfolds, Elizabeth Needham does something courageous that thrusts her into the media...
20) Enemy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A solitary college professor discovers that he looks exactly like an actor he sees in a film and sets out to meet him.
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