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Shock Shock Robin Cook To earn extra money, graduate students Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner become involved with a Boston fertility clinic, but they become suspicious about the clinic and its director and risk their… OL15151977W
The Thinking Womans Guide To Real Magic The Thinking Womans Guide To Real Magic Emily Croy,Emily Croy Barker Nora Fischer's dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. During a miserable weekend at a friend's wedding, Nora wanders off, walks through a portal, and is transforme… OL17576445W
My second death My second death Lydia R. Cooper 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 ad… OL17886207W
The pisces The pisces Melissa Broder 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… OL19741389W
Come to harm Come to harm Catriona McPherson For Keiko Nishisato, leaving Tokyo is a rare adventure, but it's living in the quiet little town of Painchton, Scotland, that shows her how far she is from home. For such a settled place, a lot of yo… OL20002160W
Brooklyn secrets Brooklyn secrets Triss Stein 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, … OL20018978W
Chemistry Chemistry Weike Wang "A novel about a young Chinese woman whose graduate studies in chemistry go off track and lead her to discover the truths about her goals and desires"-- Three years into her graduate studies at a de… OL20054891W
Brooklyn Wars Brooklyn Wars Triss Stein 224 pages ; 22 cm OL21131550W
Shades of grey Shades of grey Clea Simon Grad student Dulcie is having an awful summer. She's had to put her beloved cat Mr Grey to sleep; she can't decide on a thesis topic; her best friend has gone away leaving her with Tim, a boorish bus… OL24184690W
Grey matters Grey matters Clea Simon "Caught between a distracted supervisor and university politics, Dulcie's doctoral thesis looks doomed. When she stumbles across the bloodied body of a fellow student, things couldn't get any worse. … OL24268085W
Grace period Grace period Melinda Worth Popham "Author Melinda Worth Popham left home for Yale Divinity School at age fifty-six after a barrage of painful life events--above all, the nightmare of her teenage daughter's life-threatening depression… OL27975417W
Lost Highlander Reckoning Lost Highlander Reckoning Cassidy Cayman Lost Highlander #4 "Grad student and cocktail waitress Evelyn Merkholtz has plenty to deal with. Too much to deal with. So, when her runaway best friend calls with a mysterious and urgent request to… OL28943451W
Historia Secreta del Clavel Carmesi / The Secret History of the Pink Carnation Historia Secreta del Clavel Carmesi / The Secret History of the Pink Carnation Lauren Willig Nothing goes right for Eloise. The one day she wears her new suede boots, it rains cats and dogs. When the subway stops short, she's always the one thrown into some stranger's lap. Plus, she's had… OL5717731W
The Seduction of the Crimson Rose The Seduction of the Crimson Rose Lauren Willig "Pride and Prejudice lives on," (USA Today) "a fun and zany time warp," (New York Daily News) "history textbook meets Bridget Jones" (Marie Claire): Readers and reviewers alike praise Lauren Willig's… OL5717733W
karlmarx. com karlmarx. com Susan Coll "Ella Kennedy may not be perfect, but she's smart, she's dedicated, and she's finally managed to find a fascinating thesis subject in the morass of Marxist political theory: Eleanor Marx, the younges… OL5731877W
English as a second language English as a second language Megan Crane In this wickedly funny first novel-think Legally Blonde in Oxford-a young New York woman exchanges her corporate job for a year of books, blokes, beers, and new best friends in graduate school in Eng… OL5824099W
Steamed Steamed Jessica Conant-Park,Susan Conant The perfect mystery for readers with an appetite for crime.Food connoisseur Chloe Carter is on a quest for the perfect meal and man. That's why the "Gourmet Girl" accepts an online date with "Dinner … OL5852146W
Cassandra at the wedding Cassandra at the wedding Dorothy Baker Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to a… OL6663120W