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1) The bequest
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her professor's suspicious death, a PhD student uncovers dark machinations among her academic associates in this "richly atmospheric and irresistibly readable" (Joyce Carol Oates) Gothic mystery set in Scotland, Italy, and France.
2) Stand by me
Author
Series
Family is forever volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Romantic Christian women's fiction by acclaimed author Pat Simmons explores faith and love. Kym Knicely thought her days as a caregiver were over. But once she starts falling for family man Chaz Banks, caregiver to his seven year-old autistic granddaughter, Kym will need to make some sacrifices to get the family she always wanted"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He asks his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist, to meet him at an AA meeting later that day. When Ed doesn't show up, Moth bikes to his office and discovers a grisly scene -- his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the temple. The police pronounce the death a suicide, but...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
Meg Langslow is pregnant with twins when Michael asks if she wouldn't mind having a houseguest. One of his doctoral students is directing his new translation of a play by a minor Spanish playwright, who has agreed to come to town for the production. Surely they can spare some room for such an important academic cause? Senor Mendoza turns out to be a partygoer who loves to spend raucous evenings among adoring students...at Casa Langslow. Into this...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Allison Avery loves to win. After acing every academic challenge she's come up against, she's finally been accepted into her dream Ph.D. program at Claymore University, studying medieval literature under a professor she's admired for years. Sure, grad school isn't easy--the classes are intense, her best friend is drifting away, and her students would rather pull all-nighters than discuss The Knight's Tale--but she's got this. Until she discovers...
6) Stella Maris
Author
Series
The passenger volume 2
Language
English
Description
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
7) Off course
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Blame, a new novel about the unexpected damage inflicted by romantic entanglements. It's the early 1980s: Reagan is in the White House and his trickle-down theory is gaining traction in the national psyche. Cressida Hartley, twenty-eight, a PhD candidate in economics, has moved to her parents' shabby A-frame in the Sierras, hoping to finish her dissertation about art in the marketplace. Though she came seeking solitude, she finds...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--Provided by publisher.
Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior...
Author
Language
English
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WAS-Colleen Hoover Read-Alikes
HAR-Valentines day adult
JEF - Romance (Contemporary Rom-Coms)
WAS-Colleen Hoover Read-Alikes
Description
"When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Academic Alice seeks refuge in her cousin's London residence to study in blissful peace. However, when the notorious Prince Luis unexpectedly arrives, ruining her solitude, Alice is bewildered by the chemistry they clearly have. He is everything her carefully guarded heart shouldn't want, and yet...as he begins to remove his royal playboy mask, this mysterious prince shows her that Christmas miracles can happen!"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory. Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood,...
12) Cherished
Author
Series
Steel brothers saga volume 17
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dale Steel has fallen in love with his intern, Ashley White. She's everything he's not, and he's determined to keep her at arm's length. Ashley adores Dale, and wants him to understand he deserves her love. As they work together, their passion grows, and Dale finally agrees to a trial run at a relationship, but a secret from his newfound birth father and an act of God threaten his relationship with Ashley"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"1925: Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Cafe is the ritziest black-and-tan club in town. Honoree Dalcour is a sharecropper's daughter, willing to work hard and dance every night on her way to the top. Dreamland offers a path to the good life, socializing with celebrities like Louis Armstrong and filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. But Chicago is also awash in bootleg whiskey, gambling, and gangsters. And a young woman driven by ambition...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"At the famous Patisserie Clermont, a chance encounter with the owner's daughter has given one young man a glimpse into a life he never knew existed: of sweet cream and melted chocolate, golden caramel and powdered sugar, of pastry light as air. But it is not just the art of confectionery that holds him captive, and soon a forbidden love affair begins. Almost eighty years later, an academic discovers a hidden photograph of her grandfather as a young...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When PJ Spoon returns home for her beloved daddy’s funeral, she doesn’t expect to stick around. Why abandon her PhD program at Vanderbilt for the humble charms of her hometown, Pennywhistle, Tennessee? Mamma’s broken heart, that’s why. But truth be told, PJ’s own heart ain’t doing too good either. She impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at Pennywhistle’s beloved Chickie Shak, where locals gather for Nashville-style hot chicken. It...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Narrated by Liz Miller, a penniless Ph.D. candidate desperate to finish her dissertation, the novel begins when Liz's boyfriend abruptly ditches her, rendering Liz homeless and reduced to couch-surfing at best friend Petra's tiny Manhattan studio apartment. Trying to find an affordable living space, she stumbles across a Craigslist posting that will change her life: a room with a view in a pre-war Greenwich Village apartment. The rent is a pittance,...
17) Talk of the town
Author
Series
Tales from Grace Chapel Inn volume 41
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
It is late March and the Howard sisters, owners of the Grace Chapel Inn, find themselves busy. Alice begins mentoring a doctoral student intent on studying the townspeople of Acorn Hill; Jane becomes tour guide and genealogical sleuth for a traveler from afar; and Louise loses her temper and drives away a loved one. Once, again, the activities at the inn are the talk of the town.
18) The family bones
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Psychology student Olivia Eriksen's family is notorious among true-crime buffs. Faced with a legacy of psychopathy that spans generations, Olivia has spent much of her academic life trying to answer one chilling question: Nature or nurture? Although she's kept a safe distance from her blood relatives for years, Olivia agrees to attend a weekend reunion. After all, her fiancé is eager to meet his future in-laws, and the gathering may give her a...
19) New Pompeii
Author
Series
New Pompeii volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the race to control renewable power, an energy giant stumbles on a controversial technology: the ability to transport matter from the deep past. Their biggest secret is New Pompeii, a replica city filled with Romans, pulled through time just before the volcanic eruption. Nick Houghton doesn't know why he's been chosen to be the company's historical advisor. He's just excited to be there. Until he starts to wonder what happened to his predecessor....
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After an injury cripples her dance career in the US, Sam is scouted by a wealthy Russian investor seeking ballerinas for his Versailles-esque campus in rural Russia. Not only is she geographically cut-off from the rest of the world, Sam isolates herself from friends and family as her heroin addiction takes control. Similarly alone, Jonah, her brother, is monitoring elephants in the thick of Gabon. An unfortunate crossing with a poacher soon pulls...
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