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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Literature professor Amy Winslow (Jill Wagner) specialises in crime fiction at Elmstead College in the Pacific Northwest, and after years of teaching her Mystery 101 class she's become an expert in figuring out whodunnit. When a college student is found dead, she uses her crime fiction expertise to unravel the case faster than detective Travis (Kristoffer Polaha), who ends up working with Amy to catch the killer.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Bathing beauty: Hoping to win back his estranged swimming-coach wife, a lovestruck songwriter enrolls in a women's college.Neptune's Daughter: Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when...
5) W;t: a play
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In this play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. At the start of Wit, Vivian Bearing, Ph. D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliantly difficult Holy Sonnets of the metaphysical poet John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively...
7) Mr. Miracle
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Heaven and Earth collide when angel in training Harry Mills, also known as Mr. Miracle is sent down to a community college during Christmas for his first assignment, to help an insecure student realize her life purpose. As Harry is schooled in life lessons, he learns being human isn't as easy as he thought.
8) Expired hero
Author
Series
Last chance county volume Book 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
She won't risk reliving the past. He won't stop trying to remember his. Kaylee lives a safe life, and that's the way she likes it. The past and its danger should stay buried where it can't trap her. As soon as she hands off her brother's package to the right person, things can go back to normal. If she manages to live that long. Stuart's mind hasn't been right since he was captured by the enemy. He won't let revenge go, not when the betrayal cost...
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Clifford Skridlow is a teacher at a small Chicago college run by his father. A pimp cons Clifford into managing his four prostitutes, then skips town to escape the mob boss known as Mom. Clifford decides to draw on his course on medieval literature in his quest to save the women from Mom.
10) Expired cache
Author
Series
Last chance county volume Book 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
She'll never agree to stay. He'll never stop trying to protect her. History Professor Ellie Ridgeman is back in her hometown for the reading of her grandfather's will. She only has to face her fears this one last time, and then she's off on sabbatical. But the former police chief's last words come with a cryptic instruction Ellie can't ignore. Even when it puts her life in danger. Dean Cartwright is the town's unofficial medic, but that's not the...
11) The performance
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything. One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over. Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the math department's graduation party, Sophie hears heated arguments coming from the graduates about Mayor Graves, the commencement speaker. Not the mayor's biggest fan, Sophie is happy to escape the drama with an after-hours campus stroll accompanied by her helicopter-piloting boyfriend, Bruce Granville. However, their date is interrupted by the mayor himself--with a knife in his back. As it turns out, the knife is actually a Henley College...
13) Irrational man
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Philosophy professor Abe Lucas is at rock bottom emotionally, unable to find any meaning or joy in life. He feels that everything he's tried to do from political activism to teaching hasn't made any difference. Abe gets involved with two women: Rita Richards, a lonely professor who is unhappy in her marriage; and Jill Pollard, his best student, who becomes his closest friend. Pure chance changes everything when Abe and Jill overhear a stranger's conversation...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The Wright family is in ruins. Sue Ellen Wright has what she thinks is a close-to-perfect life. A terrific career as a Classics professor, a loving husband, and a son who is just about to safely leave the nest. But then disaster strikes. She learns that her husband is cheating, and that her son has made a complete mess of his life. So, when the opportunity to take her family to a Greek island for a month presents itself, she jumps at the chance....
18) Anne of Avonlea
Language
English
Description
Anne's life at Green Gables takes unexpected turns with the arrival of two new orphans and the realization of her dream to go to college. Through marriage proposals from suitors and the sale of her first story, Anne holds on to her memories of Avonlea and discovers life and love on her own terms.
20) Mona Lisa smile
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Steel magnolias: A group of women friends share a mother's anguish when her diabetic daughter decides to have a baby against medical advice.
Mona Lisa smile: In 1953, a free-spirited teacher accepts a teaching job at Wellesley College, and finds the students there struggling against the repressive social conditions of the time.
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