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2) 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...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Going Dutch is a hilarious and cutting portrait of modern relationships that finds a gay male graduate student falling for his brilliant female classmate. For fans of The Love affairs of Nathaniel P (with a queer twist)"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
How does smell work? Specifically, how do olfactory sensory neurons project to their targets in the olfactory bulb, where smell is processed? Justin McKinnon has hired fresh-faced graduate student Emily to study that question. What Justin hasn't told Emily is that two other scientists in the lab, Aeden and Allegra, are working on a very similar topic, and their findings may compete with her research. And to Emily's great surprise, her rational mind...
Author
Series
Pink Carnation novels volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers information about the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.
9) 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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
11) Shock
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
To earn some extra money, Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, two financially strapped graduate students, become involved with a Boston fertility clinic in search of egg donors, but they become suspicious about the clinic and its head, Dr. Spencer Windgate, and risk their lives to uncover the truth.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Jill becomes both pregnant and single at the end of one spring semester, she and her two closest friends plunge into an experiment in tri-parenting, tri-schooling, and trihabitating as grad students in Seattle. Naturally, everything goes wrong, but in ways no one sees coming.
13) Talent: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An English grad student struggling with her dissertation about the intellectual history of inspiration desperately searches for a perfect case study to anchor her thesis, only to find it in the unlikeliest of places.
14) Real life
Author
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When a Brooklyn grad student agrees to be godmother to the infant son of her best friend, who is in the grip of postpartum depression, a few days after the baptism the student receives a phone call from the mother saying she's killed her son and husband, and the student investigates to try to clear her friend.
Author
Publisher
Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Mickey Brandeis, a brilliant doctoral candidate in medieval literature, lives in her parents' garage and swears too often, but she hasn't killed a man since she was ten. Mickey's carefully created adult existence is upended when she is led to a condemned house where she discovers a mutilated corpse. When she is later asked by a timid student to solve a murder that occurred twenty years earlier, Mickey begins to lose hold on her tenuous connection...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Once a rising star in neuroscience, Kierk Suren is now homeless, broken by his all-consuming quest to find a scientific theory of consciousness. But when he's offered a spot in a prestigious postdoctoral program, he decides to rejoin society ... Instead of focusing on his work, however, Kierk becomes obsessed with another project; investigating the sudden and suspicious death of a colleague."--Provided by publisher
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
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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...
20) Nobody but us
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Steven Harding is a handsome, well-respected professor. Ellie Masterson is a wide-eyed grad student. Together, they are driving south from New York for their first vacation: three days in an isolated cabin, far from the city. Ahead of them, the promise of long, dark nights--and the chance to get to know each other better, away from prying eyes. It should be a perfect romantic getaway for two. But when a snowstorm strands them in the house, each realizes...
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