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1) Storm watch
Author
Series
Language
English
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,...
Author
Publisher
Flat Rock Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
With a remarkable combination of pathos and humor, Nathan Jorgenson spins another unique and powerful yarn about the human condition.
A Crooked Number chronicles the relationship of freshman dental student Grant Thorson and Professor Kate Bellows. Jorgenson weaves the themes of young love, graduate school, and amateur baseball into a rich and tender coming-of-age story.
3) 13 1/2
Author
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Vine mess volume 1
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to his family's California winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his Ivy League job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is a burst of color in his gray-scale life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life as her concept of self gradually slips away.
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. 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...
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Series
MacKade Brothers volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shane MacKade, the youngest of the MacKade brothers, loves women and Rebecca is the first who had him whistling the wedding march, if only she would notice him. Rebecca for her part tries to hide behind scholarly concentration to avoid the passions he could arouse in her.
10) Mrs. God
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub, the tale of a literary sojourn that turns into something far more sinister.
Esswood House. Home and estate of the Seneschal family, aristocratic patrons of the literary arts for well over a hundred years. D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, and Henry James were privileged to call themselves guests. There was always talk of a hidden secret in Esswood's past, and the Seneschal children...
Author
Series
Oklahoma nights romances volume 1
Publisher
Brava
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Professor Becca Hart is shocked to find that the cowboy she hooked up with after a visit to the rodeo is also a teacher in the ROTC program at her college, a situation that forces them to get creative to avoid faculty fraternization policies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1925, t.p. 1969.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1925, "The Professor's House" is the profound study of a middle-aged man's unhappiness by critically acclaimed American author Willa Cather. The novel tells the story of its central character, Professor Godfrey St. Peter, in three parts. In the first part, the Professor feels that he is losing control over his life and resists the direction it is taking. He is displeased with his family's move to a new house, with his daughters...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A world of possibilities opens up for Joy Harkness when she sets out on a journey that's going to show her the importance of friendship, love, and what makes a house a home
Coming-of-age can happen at any age. Joy Harkness had built a university career and a safe life in New York, protected and insulated from the intrusions and involvements of other people. When offered a position at Amherst College, she impulsively leaves the city, and along with...
15) Tomcat in love
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
17) Killer instinct
Author
Series
Instinct (James Patterson) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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?
19) The maidens
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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...
20) Third degree
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Language
English
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Description
College professor Alison Bergeron stops by a coffee shop to steel her resolve. She's about to meet the family of her boyfriend, NYPD Detective Bobby Crawford, right on the heels of his proposal that she has yet to answer. Suddenly, a brawl breaks out that ends in the death of Carter Willmott, a merciless and loathed local blogger, and Alison witnessed the whole thing. But then Willmott's car explodes, and the crime becomes something else entirely....
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