Catalog Search Results
1) Still Alice
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In Lisa Genova's extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer's disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart!
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor...
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor...
Author
Description
Theology professor Anne Waverly is sent undercover by the FBI to infiltrate a religious cult in California. Initially ill-disposed to cults--her husband and daughter died in a mass suicide in Texas--Waverly discovers an organization genuinely devoted to rehabilitating troubled youth and even finds love. But as she rises to a top post in the cult's administration, an unpleasant surprise awaits her. By the author of With Child.
4) 13 1/2
Author
Description
When Polly falls in love with Marshall, a restoration architect who is helping to rebuild New Orleans, shadows of the past rise out of the poisoned ground as thick and deadly as the toxic waters of the flood. Some crimes are doomed to repeat themselves... only the victims' names change.
Author
Series
Bel Barrett mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
421 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"After a lifetime of taking care of his impossible but irresistible sister and his cherished niece, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. An architect specializing in tiny houses, he finally has an opportunity to build his masterpiece--"his last shot at leaving a footprint on the dying planet." Assuming, that is, he can stick to his resolution to keep the demands of his needy family at bay. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. His niece, Cecily--the...
Author
Description
"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xi, 293 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease.
15) Murder 101
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
viii, 275 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When her stolen car turns up with the body of one of her students in its trunk, English professor Alison Bergeron suddenly finds herself on NYPD Homicide Detective Bobby Crawford's list of suspects and embarks on a quest to clear her name.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
When her ex-husband turns up dead, Alison Bergeron, a professor at an upstate New York college, teams up with her on-again, off-again lover, married NYPD Homicide Detective Bobby Crawford, to prove that the killing is linked to a local mob boss.
17) Infamous
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
638 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
When history professor Alison Carter became a consultant to the film version of the Wild West legend she'd dedicated her career to researching, she couldn't possibly know that she would not only get a front row seat to a full-blown Hollywood circus, but that she would innocently witness something that would put her life in danger.
Author
Series
Bel Barrett mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
272 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Author
Series
Emily Wilde volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In the early 1900s, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore, where she discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology, the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small...
20) They Never Learn
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
From the author of the "raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless" (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve—perfect for fans of Killing Eve and Chelsea Cain.
Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she's even better at getting away with murder.
Every year, Dr. Clark searches for the...
Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she's even better at getting away with murder.
Every year, Dr. Clark searches for the...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request