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"When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy...
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"In 1879, Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations. When she meets Andrew Gratton, an injured riverboat captain, a friendship grows between them-but will secrets and rising tensions prevent them from finding true happiness?"--
Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor at Willamette University's medical college so she can use her gift for healing to help those in need, especially...
3) Cherished
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Steel brothers saga volume 17
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Waterhouse Press
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English
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Dale Steel has fallen in love with his intern, Ashley White. She's everything he's not, and he's determined to keep her at arm's length. Ashley adores Dale, and wants him to understand he deserves her love. As they work together, their passion grows, and Dale finally agrees to a trial run at a relationship, but a secret from his newfound birth father and an act of God threaten his relationship with Ashley.
4) Stella Maris
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Passenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
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The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
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[2015]
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English
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Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He asks his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist, to meet him at an AA meeting later that day. When Ed doesn't show up, Moth bikes to his office and discovers a grisly scene -- his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the temple. The police pronounce the death a suicide, but...
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The Brown sisters volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits - someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. When big, brooding...
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St. Martin's Griffin
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2022.
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English
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"One to Watch meets Beach Read in Jenny L. Howe's smart, swoony debut The Make-Up Test, in which two exes find themselves battling against each other-and their unresolved feelings-for a spot in a prestigious Ph.D. program.."--
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Meg is eight-and-a-half months pregnant with twins when she and Michael host a Spanish playwright for the production of his play by one of Michael's graduate students. Then enters the dean of the English department and a man from the college president's office, who say Michael's student is not allowed to do his dissertation and that the play must be canceled. While discussing this, the dean is found murdered. Meg's house becomes a crime scene, and...
9) The Latinist
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W. W. Norton & Company
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[2022]
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English
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"In this wickedly sharp, propulsive debut, a classicist must outmaneuver her manipulative mentor. Tessa Templeton has thrived at Oxford University, under the tutelage and praise of esteemed classics professor Christopher Eccles. Yet shortly before her thesis defense, Tessa learns that Chris has sabotaged her career-and realizes their relationship is not at all what she believed. Driven by what he mistakes as love for Tessa, Chris has ensured that...
10) Stand by me
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Family Is forever volume 3
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Romantic Christian women's fiction by acclaimed author Pat Simmons explores faith and love. Kym Knicely thought her days as a caregiver were over. But once she starts falling for family man Chaz Banks, caregiver to his seven year-old autistic granddaughter, Kym will need to make some sacrifices to get the family she always wanted"--
11) The bequest
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Scarlet Press, an imprint of Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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After her professor's suspicious death, a PhD student uncovers dark machinations among her academic associates in this "richly atmospheric and irresistibly readable" (Joyce Carol Oates) Gothic mystery set between Scotland, Italy, and France.
Fleeing a disastrous affair with a colleague in Boston, Isabel Henley moves to Scotland to begin a PhD with a renowned feminist professor-only to learn, upon arrival, that her advisor has suffered a deadly fall....
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The interlocking stories of six characters whose only connection is their units at a storage facility, where a tragic accident will either tear them apart or help them salvage their own precarious lives"--
When a harrowing accident-- or is it an accident?-- occurs in the Metropolis Storage Warehouse, six people will be forced to consider their life circumstances. Serge is mentally unstable but a brilliant street photographer, and lives in his rental...
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BGC Press
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2020.
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English
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Fiona Murphy became obsessed with a legendary pirate queen Grace O'Malley while in college. On the final stretch of earning her PhD in history, she's in Ireland to volunteer for the summer at a small museum dedicated to the woman's memory, so she can finish her dissertation. Local scholar Rory O'Keeffe is a distant relative of Grace-- and he shares Fiona's obsession for history and Ireland. Before he can pursue a future with Fiona, Rory must deal...
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"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
15) Disorientation
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"--
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Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A Splash of Love: A Ph.D. student expands her studies to include the whales of the Pacific Northwest. There she meets a whale-watching tour guide and they soon find themselves bonding over more than just Orcas. High Flying Romance: Music teacher Hannah finds unexpected love with Gavin after he and his daughter move back to town and participate in the annual kite festival.
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