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6) The executor
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A grad student meets his intellectual match and seals his dark fate when he responds to a newspaper ad seeking a conversationalist.
7) Grey dawn
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Aided by the cryptic advice from her kitten Esmé and the ghost of her late, great cat Mr Grey, Dulci can't stop herself from investigating a savage attack on a university student.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A mystery set in Yale, mixing murder and philosophy. It begins when someone steals Zach Blumberg's dissertation on an obscure nihilistic French philosopher. When another student reports a similar problem and is killed, Zach realizes the foul play is more than academic. A debut in fiction.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When an anonymous benefactor offers to put Samantha Moore through school, with the stipulation that she write frequent letters to him on her progress, Sam finds safety in the letters as her program and her peers force her to confront her past.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug's possibilities such that their "research" becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a free-wheeling exploration...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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,...
13) The end of Mr. Y
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere? Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists--especially Thomas Lumas and "The End of Mr. Y, "a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into an adventure of science and faith, consciousness and death, space and time, and everything in between. Seeking answers,...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2012], p2012
Language
English
Description
Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption. When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious connection...
15) Sepulchre
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Conducting research in southwest France, an American graduate student finds the grand old hotel where she is staying eerily familiar and experiences strange dreams and visions about a sister and brother whose visit to the same region a century earlier had unexpected otherworldly consequences.
Author
Publisher
Jove
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...
17) Brooklyn secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Worldwide
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Erica Donato is researching the 1930s when Brownsville, New York, was the home of the notorious organized criminals the newspapers called Murder Inc. Two young women are found murdered. One of them, Savanna, had helped Erica at the local library. Erica digs deeper than necessary into her research and encounters an apparent derelict white man, a vengeful rejected girlfriend, the role of boxing as a way out of poverty, and fading evidence of long-ago...
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Summer Sullivan of Elm Creek Quilts has returned home to the celebrated quilter's retreat, but it isn't all a delight. Summer hasn't finished her thesis, and she can't graduate until she does. She finds distraction in organizing an exhibit of quilts as a fundraiser. But Summer's research uncovers facts about the town's past, prompting questions about racism, economic injustice, and corruption within their community
19) Shock
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, graduate science students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is looking for egg donors. Deborah and Joanna figure they can do a good deed--help infertile couples--and earn money. Although rumors of a fellow student donor's unexplained disappearance surface, the duo is not deterred....
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Rick Nagano is a graduate student in the history department at USC, struggling to make rent on his South Los Angeles apartment near the neighborhood where his family once lived. When he lands a job as a research assistant for the elderly Mrs. W--, the heir to an oil fortune, he sees it first simply as a source of extra cash. But as he grows closer to the iconoclastic, charming, and feisty Mrs. W--, he gets drawn into a world of privilege and wealth...
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