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By Pears, Iain[2016]., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: FANTASY F PEA Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1960, Henry, a professor, dreams of finishing his fantasy novel. Angela, a scientist from the far future, takes his idea and makes a doorway to another world. Rosie, Henry's neighbor, wanders through it.
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2014., Seventh Street Books Call No: SUSPENSE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why? All she wants is for life to get back to normal, but normal is looking hard to come by. She's thirty-eight and hobbles with a cane. Her first student interaction ends in tears (hers). Her fellow faculty members seem uncomfortable with her, and her ex--whom she may or may not still love--has moved on. Enter Nathaniel Barber, a graduate student obsessed with Chicago's violent history. Nath is a serious scholar, but also a serious mess about his first heartbreak, his mother's death, and his father's disapproval. Assigned as Amelia's teaching assistant, Nath also takes on the investigative legwork that Amelia can't do. And meanwhile, he's hoping she'll approve his dissertation topic, the reason he came to grad school in the first place: the student attack on Amelia Emmet. Together and at cross-purposes, Amelia and Nathaniel stumble toward a truth that will explain the attack and take them both through the darkest hours of their lives"--
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[2023]., Adolescent, Doubleday Call No: REALISTIC F SCH Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The bestselling, Thurber-prize winning author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap by chronicling the beleaguered Professor Fitger as he leads the annual "Experience Abroad" to London and beyond with eleven clueless undergrads in tow. Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he's the only Professor available to chaperone Payne University's annual "Experience: Abroad" (he has long been on the record objecting to the absurd and gratuitous colon between the words) occurring during the three weeks of Winter Term. Among his charges are a claustrophobe with a juvenile detention record, a student who erroneously believed he was headed for the Caribbean, a pair of unreconciled lovers, a set of undifferentiated twins, and one young woman who has never been away from her cat before. Through a sea of troubles--personal, institutional and international-the gimlet-eyed, acid-laced Fitger navigates safe passage for all concerned, revealing much about the essential need for human connection and the sometimes quite surprising places in which we find it."
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By Healy, Luke2016., Adolescent, Nobrow Call No: GN HEA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Weaving together the real life, historical expeditions of Ada Blackjack and Robert Bartlett with a contemporary fictional story, How to Survive in the North is a unique and visual narrative journey that shows the strength it takes to survive in even the harshest conditions - whether that be struggling for survival in the Arctic in the 1900s or surviving a mid-life crisis in the present day.
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2018., Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First paperback edition in this format. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
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2009., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: FIC MCD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
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2010, c2008., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Gold Fiction MC DONALD Edition: 1st ed. in this for Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
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2008, Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
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2010, c2008., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: FIC MCD Edition: 1st pbk. ed. in thi Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
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2008., Candlewick Press Call No: FIC MCD Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
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[2014]., Red Hen Press Call No: NL 970 WAS Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brain. When her mood-stabilizing medications aren't threatening her life, they're shoving her from depression to mania and back in the space of an hour. Her crisis of American Indian identity bleeds into other areas of self-doubt; mental illness, sexual trauma, ethnic identity, and independence become intertwined. Sifting through the scraps of her past in seventeen formally inventive chapters, Washuta aligns the strictures of her Catholic school education with Cosmopolitan's mandates for womanhood, views memories through the distorting lens of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and contrasts her bipolar highs and lows with those of Britney Spears and Kurt Cobain. Built on the bones of fundamental identity questions as contorted by a distressed brain, My Body Is a Book of Rules pulls no punches in its self-deprecating and ferocious look at human fallibility.
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Ã2013., Simon & Schuster Call No: Romance FIC Simsion Edition: First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. Genre: Romance Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Genetic scientist Don Tillman, deciding it is time to find a wife, creates the Wife Project to filter out all the DNA mismatched women from his list of wife candidates. Filtered out of the list is Rosie Jarman, but that doesn't mean she is out of Don's life as he agrees to help her find who her true father is through DNA testing--and, amazingly and unscientifically, Don feels himself growing to love Rosie, even though she is not genetically compatible.
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By Tartt, DonnaÃ1992., Vintage Contemporaries Call No: SUSPENSE FIC TAR Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Richard Papen becomes embroiled in a society of brutal and deadly secrets from which he is unable to escape when an elite group of students from the prestigious Hampden College accept him into their group.
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2002, ©1992., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Realistic Tartt Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Access eBook Series Title: Listen Alaska.Summary Note: Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable.
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By Genova, Lisa2014., Gallery Books Call No: Teen Fiction Edition: First Gallery Books Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Alice Howland -- Harvard professor, gifted researcher, and lecturer, wife, and mother of three grown children -- sets out for a run and soon realizes she has no idea how to find her way home. She has taken the route for years, but nothing looks familiar. She is utterly lost. Medical consults reveal early-onset Alzheimer's. Alice slowly but inevitably loses memory and connection with reality, as told from her perspective. She gradually loses the ability to follow a conversational thread, the story line of a book, or to recall information she heard just moments before. Genova shows the disease progression through the reactions of others, as Alice does, so readers feel what she feels: a slowly building terror.
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2010., Adolescent, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Young adult FIC FREITAS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Olivia Peters, who dreams of becoming a writer, is thrilled to be selected to take a college fiction seminar taught by her idol, Father Mark, but when the priest's enthusiasm for her writing develops into something more, Olivia shifts from wonder to confusion to despair.
