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1) The maidens
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"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...
2) Six years
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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.
3) 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.
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"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...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
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"Ivan is a tightly wound philosophy professor whose reverence for logic and order governs not only his academic interests, but also his closest relationships. His wife, Prue, is quite the opposite: a pioneer in the emerging field of biolinguistics, she is young and beautiful, full of life and feeling. Thus far, they have managed to weather their differences. But lately, an odd distance has settled in between them. Might it have something to do with...
7) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
Publisher
Shout! / Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A debunker of all things paranormal, Professor Philip Goodman has devoted his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans on his own television show. His skepticism is put to the test however, when he receives a file of three chilling, inexplicable cases. Even scarier, each of these macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to Professor Goodman's own life. Will they make a believer of him yet?
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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...
11) God's country
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
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When a college professor in the remote mountains of the American West confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.
12) The third gate
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Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 3
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Believing he has discovered the burial chamber of a near-mythical Egyptian pharaoh and a mystical double crown, famed archaeologist Porter Stone and his team suffer bizarre accidents that Professor Jeremy Logan is brought in to investigate.
13) Still Alice
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Harvard psychologist suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
169 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Description
Vellitt's quest to find a former student who may be the only person who can save her community takes her through a world governed by a seemingly arbitrary dream logic in which she occasionally glimpses an underlying but mysterious order, a world ruled by capricious gods and populated by the creatures of dreams and nightmares.
15) Storm watch
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 23
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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,...
16) An act of murder
Author
Series
Professor Prather mystery volume 1
Publisher
Camel Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"In the sleepy college town of Copper Bluff, South Dakota, English professor Emmeline Prather is enjoying the start of a new semester. But when one of her students dies working on the fall musical, it disrupts life on the small, quiet campus. Although the police rule the death accidental, Prof. Prather has good reason to suspect foul play. Unmasking the murderer proves much more challenging than finding dangling participles, so Em recruits fellow...
17) Away from her
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Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xvi, 76 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Married for fifty years, Grant and Fiona's perfect life together is shattered after Fiona is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
18) 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...
20) 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...
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