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Love hypothesis volume 01
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English
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"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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English
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"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. Her method...
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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 security...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating-and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst. PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation-if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home,...
5) Stella Maris
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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...
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Willamette brides volume 2
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...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"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."--
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Meg Langslow mysteries volume 12
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English
Description
Meg is eight-and-a-half months pregnant with twins when she and Michael host a Spanish playwright for the production of his play by one of Michael's graduate students. Then enters the dean of the English department and a man from the college president's office, who say Michael's student is not allowed to do his dissertation and that the play must be canceled. While discussing this, the dean is found murdered. Meg's house becomes a crime scene, and...
10) The dead student
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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 immediately calls his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist who has become Moth's mentor and father figure. Ed promises to meet him at an AA meeting later that day but never shows up. Moth bikes to his office only to discover a grisly scene: his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot...
11) Disorientation
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"--
12) Cherished
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Series
Steel brothers saga volume 17
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Language
English
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"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."--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Connected by Metropolis Storage Warehouse in Cambridge, six enigmatic characters of varying backgrounds, races and religions fight circumstances that are within and out of their control as they try to discover the truth surrounding a supposed suicide that occurred in the facility. --
14) New Pompeii
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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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....
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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Jeanne is accepted on to a PhD course, she is over the moon, brimming with excitement and grand plans-but is the world ready for her masterful analysis of labyrinth motifs in Kafka's The Trial? At first Jeanne throws herself into research with great enthusiasm, but as time goes by, it becomes clear that things aren't quite going according to plan.
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Series
Once upon a summer volume 04
Publisher
BGC Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Fiona Murphy became obsessed with a legendary pirate queen Grace O'Malley while in college. On the final stretch of earning her PhD in history, she's in Ireland to volunteer for the summer at a small museum dedicated to the woman's memory, so she can finish her dissertation. Local scholar Rory O'Keeffe is a distant relative of Grace-- and he shares Fiona's obsession for history and Ireland. Before he can pursue a future with Fiona, Rory must deal...
17) Off course
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Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
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...
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A Splash of Love: A Ph.D. student expands her studies to include the whales of the Pacific Northwest. There she meets a whale-watching tour guide and they soon find themselves bonding over more than just Orcas.
High Flying Romance: Music teacher Hannah finds unexpected love with Gavin after he and his daughter move back to town and participate in the annual kite festival.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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 isnot 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...
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