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Summary: A minor traffic accident becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster, a 60-year-old human rights scholar, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ALLHolton, India
Summary: "Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones but with manners, tea, and helicopter parasols. Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, capturing both her bird and her imagination like a villain. Albeit a handsome and charming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLRader-Day, Lori
Summary: "For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why? All she wants is for life to get back to normal, but normal is looking hard to come by. She's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rader-Day 2014Reid, Kiley
Summary: "It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: Nan Lewis, a creative writing professor at a state university in upstate New York, is driving home from a faculty holiday party after finding out she's been denied tenure. On her way, she hits a deer, but when she gets out of her car to look for it, the deer is nowhere to be found. Eager to get home and out of the oncoming snowstorm, Nan is forced to leave her car at the bottom of her snowy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOOMitchell, Maggie
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITWilliams, Beatriz
Summary: In 1954, Emilia Winthrop, a professor at Wellesley College, is summoned to CIA headquarters, where she is forced to confront the harrowing consequences of the summer she exposed a traitor amongst the New England elite and a choice that could destroy her chance for redemption all over again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILAllende, Isabel
Summary: "In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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Summary: "English professor and aspiring novelist, Grace Warner spends her days teaching four sections of "Beowulf for Cretins" to bored and disinterested students at one of New England's "hidden ivy" colleges. Not long after she is dumped by her longtime girlfriend, Grace meets the engaging and mysterious Abbie on a cross-country flight. Sparks fly on and off the plane as the two strangers give in to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bywater Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMBurdette, Lucy
Summary: Thirty-two-year-old 'happiness guru' Dr Cooper Hunziker has it all - a dream job as assistant psychology professor at Yale University, a soon-to-be published self-help book, The Happiness Connection, and the perfect man. But there's a problem. Cooper isn't happy. Of course, it doesn't help that she's facing cut-throat competition for her tenure at Yale, an accusation of plagiarism that could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURAllende, Isabel
Summary: "In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Allende 2017Sonneborn, Julia
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SONPollack, Eileen
Summary: "Professor Maxine Sayers once found her personal and professional life so fulfilling that she founded the Institute of Future Studies, a program dedicated to studying the effects of technology on our culture and finding ways to prolong human life. But when her beloved husband dies, she is so devastated she can barely get out of bed. To make matters worse, her son, Zach, has abruptly quit his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2019
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Summary: It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REIHart, Michelle
Summary: "A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARGehrman, Jody Elizabeth
Summary: Kate Youngblood is heading into an age where her eyes are less blue, her charm worn out, and soon no one will ever truly look at her, want to know her, again. Except one. Sam Grist is Kate's most promising student. An unflinching writer with razor-sharp clarity who gravitates towards dark themes and twisted plots, his raw talent is something Kate wants to nurture into literary success. But he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEHPoston, Ashley
Summary: "Eileen Merriweather knows a thing or two about romance. As a professor of literature, she teaches prestigious courses on history's greatest romantics, but one week out of the year she abandons her dusty textbooks and makes a pilgrimage to the Hudson Valley with her best friend Pru to meet their Super Smutty Book Club in person, and celebrate the romance series that brought them together -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024
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Summary: "Carolyn Haines's Independent Bones is the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as "Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. When Dr. Alala Diakos, a visiting professor of Greek literature, comes to teach at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, it doesn't take long for controversy to follow. With her fervent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIShriver, Lionel
Summary: "In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRBarbieri, Maggie.
Summary: When a friend asks her for help in finding his nephew, English professor Alison Bergeron enlists the assistance of her boyfriend, NYPD detective Bobby Crawford, only to discover that the missing boy has turned up dead in the Hudson, the victim of a suspicious ""suicide."
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarbieri, Maggie.
Summary: Reluctantly hosting her in-laws during a birthday party for her twin stepdaughters, Alison Bergeron investigates when the girls' estranged uncle gives them a lavish gift and is subsequently found dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBowen, Gail
Summary: On the day Joanne Kilbourn retires from her university teaching post, she has a dream about her first husband (murdered many years ago). Soon, she is forced to experience the truth of what, for most of her life, had just been a good closing line for a political speech. The night after Jo and Zack have dinner with Zack's colleague Margot and one of his law firm's biggest clients, the developer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McClelland & Stewart 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWHillier, Jennifer.
Summary: Follows a Seattle serial murder investigation centering on Abby Locke, who has been imprisoned for the attempted killing of a police officer and who has captured the attention of a violent fan obsessed with proving her innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILWait, Lea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2005