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Pink Carnation novels volume 1
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English
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Eloise Kelly, a Harvard scholar, travels to England to complete her dissertation, discovers the secret of the most elusive spy of all time, the Pink Carnation, his romance that nearly changed world events, and a romance of her own.
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Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding.
Dorothy Baker’s entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events...
Dorothy Baker’s entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events...
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Bottoming out after a dramatic breakup, doctoral student Lucy accepts her sister's invitation to dog-sit at her home on Venice Beach for the summer, where she meets an eerily attractive swimmer whose Sirenic identity transforms her understanding of what real love looks like.
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2002
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English
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Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel’s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana (pop. 3,062) after walking out on an academic career that has equipped her for little but lording it over other people. Amos Townsend is trying to minister to a congregation that would prefer simple...
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2017.
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English
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"A novel about a young Chinese woman whose graduate studies in chemistry go off track and lead her to discover the truths about her goals and desires"--
Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, our unnamed narrator finds her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality. Tormented by her failed research, there's another, nonscientific question looming: the marriage proposal from a fellow scientist, whose...
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Hannah is finally about to have everything she ever wanted. With a high-paying job, a Manhattan apartment, and a boyfriend about to propose, all she and Ethan have to do is make it through the last couple of weeks of grad school. But when, on a romantic weekend trip to Sonoma, Hannah is spontaneously offered a marketing job at a family-run winery and doesn't immediately refuse, their meticulously planned forever threatens to come crashing down. And...
8) Steamed
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Chloe Carter's Internet date commits the ultimate gastronomic faux pas: He dies before dessert Ever in search of the perfect meal-and the perfect man-twenty-something grad student and food connoisseur Chloe Carter draws the line at speed dating. But when the Massachusetts native reluctantly signs up for Back Bay Dates, she's soon communicating with a guy after her own heart. According to his online bio, DinnerDude is Eric Rafferty, a blond, six-foot...
9) Grey zone
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When a student goes missing and a professor ends up dead, Dulcie Schwartz realizes that midterms are going to be worse than ever. She's hard at work on her thesis, but present day concerns - including the destructive mischief of her growing kitten - keep dragging her back into a tangle of motive, misbehavior, and maybe even murder. If only Mr. Grey, her beloved feline ghost, would lend a hand, at least with that rambunctious kitten...
10) The seeker
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English
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"A young graduate student travels to Walden Pond expecting to find inspiration in the quiet solitude, but finds something eerie and malevolent living deliberately in Thoreau's woods."--Front jacket flap.
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"Rilla is getting married. Except she isn't. She's running away from her confused fiancé Simon, her big mad family, and the memories nipping at her heels. Her sister Rose would know what to do in such times of crisis. But the trouble is, Rose is the crisis. She disappeared years ago, and Rilla's heart went missing too. Where is Rose? And who is Rilla without Rose? If she's to rescue some happiness out of all this chaos, she needs to find out."--Provided...
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"From the moment she discovered her sister's secret relationship with charismatic professor Jay Crane, Jessie Mooney has been convinced that he's to blame for the events leading to her death. Haunted by their last email exchange--You know what you did--she enrolls in graduate school and competes her way into Crane's famous "Law and Literature" class, setting into motion a plan to get close to him so she can expose who he really is. Jessie will cross...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity (which could save the planet). When she discovers that her brilliant adviser is involved in a sex scandal, Helen is torn: should she give up on her work with him? Or should she accompany him to a controversial university, founded by a provocateur billionaire, that hosts academics other schools have thrown out? Helen decides...
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What should be a polite public meeting becomes a battleground over plans to redevelop the once proud Brooklyn Navy Yard. Local residents clamor for their own agenda in redeveloping 300 acres overlooking a sparkling downtown Manhattan, while developers argue and city officials cower. Erica Donato, still writing her PhD dissertation about changes in city neighborhoods, is not surprised at the meeting's anger, but she is shocked to witness the murder...
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Erica Donato mysteries volume 2
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English
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A brutally murdered man whom no one believed had an enemy, turns local historians on their heads as century-old letters found written to him by a woman affilated with Tiffany surface; the mausoleum at Green-Wood Cemetery is temporarily off-limits, and Erica Donato, history graduate assigned to catalog the letters in the museum where she's employed, all reveal an unknown and unexpected past.
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A bank internship in Japan's booming 1981 economy is supposed to be twenty-three-year-old Dorothy Falwell's ticket into a prestigious international MBA program. But the internship is unpaid--so, to make ends meet, she accepts an evening job as a hostess in a rundown suburban bar, a far cry from the sensuous woodblock prints she's seen of old Tokyo's "floating world." Like her namesake, Dorothy hasn't planned on the detours she encounters in her own...
17) Bunny
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English
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[Lasell] Thrillers
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"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything...
18) The sky was ours
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"From prizewinning writer Joe Fassler comes a brilliant modern reimagining of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as a story of obsession, longing, and the radical pursuit of utopia. It's 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away--while the world around her veers badly off course, hurtling toward economic and ecological collapse. She wants to find something better. But she has no...
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 22
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master's degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter's retreat is met with delight but also concern from her mother, Gwen; her best friend, Sarah; master quilter Sylvia; and her other colleagues--and rightly so. Stymied by writer's block, Summer hasn't finished her thesis, and she can't...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bitcoin Billionaires, a commercial thriller that connects the Gardner Museum heist with a tantalizing alternate history of New England's founding fathers, and introduces a woman with a dark past who's stumbled upon the most fascinating secret in American history. THE CARD SHARK: MIT student Hailey Gordon is looking to make some fast cash, but when she's caught card counting at the Blackjack table, she...
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