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2) 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.
Author
Series
Professor Sally Good mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 22 cm.
4) 13 1/2
Author
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...
5) 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.
6) 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
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...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Lauren Cress teaches writing in the international program at a small college outside of Washington, D.C. In the classroom, she is poised, smart, and kind, well-liked by her students and colleagues. But in her personal life, Lauren is troubled and isolated. Still grappling with the sudden death of her parents ten years earlier, she exists at a remove from everyone around her, frozen in time as a grieving teenager. But one day, a new student joins...
Author
Series
Murder 101 mysteries volume 2
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Description
You'd think, now that she's off the hook for murder, that Alison, an English professor at a cushy college campus just north of chaotic New York City, would be able to relax. But how can she, with a wedding in the works? A Ph.D can only go so far…
The recently-divorced Alison couldn't be happier for her best friend, the bride Max. The problem is with the groom. Namely, his best man: the stunningly handsome yet technically married NYPD homicide...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 25 cm
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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Description
"When precocious Lois and pretty Carly May were twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across the country, and held in an Adirondack hunting lodge for two months. [This debut novel explores] the repercussions of that formative summer, when two girls who previously did not know each other shared an experience that would shape all their days to come"--
Precocious Lois. Pretty Carly May. At twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across...
13) The water witch
Author
Series
Fairwick chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
340 p. 20 cm.
14) The bullet
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
357 pages ;
Description
"From NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly comes a heart-pounding story about fear, family secrets, and one woman's hunt for answers about the murder of her parents. 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...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Mallory is a freshman in college, reeling from her mother's recent death, when she encounters the woman. She sees her for the first time at the university's gym, immediately entranced. Soon, they meet, drawn by an electric tension and shared past wounds; before long, they begin sleeping together in secret. Self-possessed, successful, brilliant, and aloof--the woman is everything Mallory wants...and wants to be. Desiring not only the woman but also...
16) Third degree
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Struggling with uncertainties about her NYPD detective boyfriend's marriage proposal, college professor Alison Bergeron witnesses the murder of an unpopular blogger and subsequently realizes that the case is more complicated than it appears.
17) I remember you
Author
Publisher
Downtown Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
439 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
British college professor Tess Tennant takes her students on a trip to Rome, where a charming American reporter gives her a romantic tour of the city, until a tragedy causes her past and present to collide.
18) Mona Lisa smile
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
[362] pages ; 21 cm
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...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
224 pages
Description
"A stressed family, an unplanned pregnancy, and a painful, if liberating, awakening from the author of the lauded memoir Her. Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman's love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and even their hopes...
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