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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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...
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Language
English
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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...
3) Stand by me
Author
Series
Family Is forever volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kym Knicely has been a caregiver, but now she is focused on her career and earning her doctorate in education. When she meets Charles "Chaz" Banks and his four-year-old granddaughter, Chauncy, who is autistic, Kym is attracted to the older man. Chaz is ready to take a second chance on love, but is needed in his granddaughter's life. When your faith is strong, love will find a way. -- adapted from back cover
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After acing every academic challenge Allison Avery has finally been accepted into her dream Ph.D. program at Claymore University, studying medieval literature under a professor she's admired for years. Then she discovers her ex-boyfriend, Colin Benjamin, has also been accepted. When they're both assigned to TA for the same professor, the game is on after their professor announces a career-changing research trip opportunity-- with one spot to fill....
Author
Series
The Brown sisters volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits - someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. When big, brooding...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Meg's expecting twins—-any minute!—-in this next hilarious entry in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling series!
Meg is eight and a half months pregnant with twins when Michael asks if she wouldn't mind another houseguest. One of his doctoral students is directing his new translation of a play by a minor Spanish playwright, and the playwright has agreed to come to town for the production.
Senor Mendoza turns out
7) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels 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...
8) The bequest
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a disastrous affair with a colleague in Boston, Isabel Henley moves to Scotland to begin a PhD with a renowned feminist professor-only to learn, upon arrival, that her advisor has suffered a deadly fall. Soon after, Isabel is informed that another scholar at the university is about to publish a book on her dissertation topic, leaving her disconcerted and in search of a new subject, all while struggling to acclimate to her new home abroad....
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Language
English
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"Tessa Templeton has thrived at Oxford University, under the tutelage and praise of esteemed classics professor Christopher Eccles. Yet shortly before her thesis defense, Tessa learns that Chris has sabotaged her career--and realizes their relationship is not at all what she believed. Driven by what he mistakes as love for Tessa, Chris has ensured that no other institution will offer her a position, keeping her at Oxford with him. His tactics grow...
Author
Publisher
Bancroft Press
Language
English
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"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,...
11) The way of love
Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor at Willamette University's medical college so she can use her gift for healing to help those in need, especially the native populations forced onto reservations and then neglected. When she meets Andrew Gratton, a handsome riverboat captain who has been injured on his ship, she uses her skills to tend his wound, and a friendship grows between them. Andrew admires her strength and willingness to...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a harrowing accident-- or is it an accident?-- occurs in the Metropolis Storage Warehouse, six people will be forced to consider their life circumstances. Serge is mentally unstable but a brilliant street photographer, and lives in his rental unit. Zach, the storage facility owner and an ex-drug dealer, discovers clues in Serge's photographs. Marta is an undocumented immigrant hiding from ICE in her unit. Liddy, an abused wife and mother, may...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted adult from his...
14) Off course
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a PhD student ventures to a mountain cabin to finish her dissertation, the hothouse community subsumes her in a series of ill-advised relationships"--
15) The addiction
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (82 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (31 pages ; illustrated)
Language
English
Description
A vampire film about the nature of addiction and original sin. A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.
Author
Language
English
Description
Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Chicago, sometime--Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, life is a finish line of mutually assured disappointment....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm
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
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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...
20) Queen of glory
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Obeng, a doctoral student at Columbia, is weeks away from following her married boyfriend to Ohio when her mother suddenly passes away. Her inheritance? King of Glory, a small Christian bookstore serving the Ghanaian immigrant community in the Bronx. Tasked with arranging her mother's funeral according to her family's traditional expectations, Sarah simultaneously navigates her plans to relocate and the return of her estranged father, all while...
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