Catalog Search Results
CLASSROOM KITS!
Are you an educator? Do you know an educator? Our Book Club Library offers a collection of Classroom Kits with many titles that are popular with educators. Click here for more information and check out a Classroom Kit today!
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes. She rents an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio. In their meetings Agnes tells stories of her youth, her family, her marriage, and ideas for her art. The student is increasingly aware of Agnes's disintegration: her stories are frenetic; her art scattered and unfinished, white paint...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Named a Best Book of 2018 by Real Simple and Redbook
"Delightful... effervescent, heady and intoxicating." -Elin Hilderbrand
How far would you got to find the place you belong?
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...
"Delightful... effervescent, heady and intoxicating." -Elin Hilderbrand
How far would you got to find the place you belong?
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...
Author
Publisher
Griffin
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
After Jill becomes both pregnant and single in grad school, she moves in with her two closest friends, as the three of them attempt to share parenting Jill's baby, Atlas, all while juggling classes and adjusting to their chaotic living situation.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
If James Patterson and Janet Evanovich had a love child... meet Jessica James.
She knew she'd have to defend her thesis.
But she didn't think she'd be defending her life.
Is the professor's weird note the final nail in her coffin?
Is the hot art dealer putting the moves on her for real? Or is he the killer?
And why is the Russian janitor forging masterpieces in the broom closet?
Armed with only her quick wit and the secrets at the bottom of...
8) Bunny
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
9) Real life
Author
Language
English
Description
"A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends -- some dating each other,...
Author
Series
Tufa novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
""This is real." Three small words on a film canister found by graduate students Justin and Veronica, who discover a long-lost silent movie from more than a century ago. The startlingly realistic footage shows a young girl transforming into a winged being. Looking for proof behind this claim, they travel to the rural foothills of Tennessee to find Sadieville, where it had been filmed. Soon, their journey takes them to Needsville, whose residents are...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Kiss Quotient meets Love Potion No. 9 in the next sparkling romantic comedy by Lily Menon, The Sizzle Paradox. Lyric Bishop feels like a fraud - she's studying sexual chemistry in romantic partners and what makes for a successful long-term relationship, only she can't seem to figure it out in her own dating life. The science is sound, but how can she give her expert opinion with no real-world experience? In order to complete her doctoral thesis,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a social circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to figure out what they want, and who they are."--
In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. At the group's center are Seamus, a frustrated young poet; Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bestselling author Lily Lee is on a short deadline to deliver her new career guide How to Land the Perfect Job, and she's been interviewing at all the top companies around town. But when she's offered a coveted position at her dream company, the employer's background check reveals she never actually finished her college degree. Unbelievably, her worst nightmare has come true. Lily returns to her alma mater to relive her senior year of college, after...
Author
Publisher
Ėksmo
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Russian
Description
Держать людей на расстоянии уже давно вошло у Уолласа в привычку. Нет, он не социофоб. Просто так безопасней. Он - первый за несколько десятков лет черный студент на факультете биохимии в Университете Среднего Запада. А еще он гей. Максимально не вписывается...
15) Paul
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A sharp, timely debut about a young woman's toxic relationship with an older man and her battle to free herself from the suffocating expectation to be "good." When personal scandal forces her to leave Paris, Frances, a young British graduate student, travels to southern France one summer to volunteer on a farm. Almost as soon as she arrives, she is pulled into a relationship with the farm's enigmatic owner, Paul, a well-traveled older artist. Alone...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A hilarious and whipsmart novel where an epidemic of a rabies like disease is carried only by blonde women, who all must go to great lengths to conceal their blondness. Hazel Hayes is a grad student living in New York City. As the novel opens, she learns she is pregnant (from an affair with her married professor) at an apocalyptically bad time: random but deadly attacks on passers-by, all by blonde women, are terrorizing New Yorkers. Soon it becomes...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A savvy former street child working at a human rights law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this fresh, propulsive debut novel about fortune and survival"--
Rakhi is a twenty-three-year-old haunted by the grisly aftermath of an incident that led to the loss of her best friend eleven years ago. Constantly reminded she doesn't belong, Rakhi lives alone in a Mumbai slum, working as a lowly office assistant...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"From a compelling new voice in women's fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generations of women who struggle to define themselves as they pursue their dreams. Simran Mehta has always felt harshly judged by her mother, Nandini, especially when it comes to her writing "hobby." But when a charismatic and highly respected journalist careens into Simran's life, she begins to question not only her future as a psychologist, but her engagement...
20) The Cana mystery
Author
Publisher
Tuscany Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this gripping mystery adventure, Ava, an MIT graduate student and expert in ancient languages, is awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call from an old friend, Paul, with a baffling request: Could she fly to Yemen immediately? He's found something important and needs her help. Paul's subsequent coded e-mail alludes to what he and his boss, Simon Demaj, have found: the lost jars of Cana, the very jars that Jesus used at the wedding at...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request