W;t
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English, comes to reassess her life and her work after she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
812
year: 1999
copies: 3
call number/section: 812
lexile:
The Fractal Murders
Pepper Keane, hired by Colorado math professor Jayne Smyers to investigate the link between the murders of three experts in the field of fractal geometry, gains so much knowledge of the topic that he unwittingly makes himself the next target.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Wit
When English professor Vivian Bearing is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she is forced to reevaluate her life.
812
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: 812
lexile:
The Small Room
Lucy Winter finds herself in the middle of a crisis shortly after arriving to teach on the campus of a New England women's college when she learns that a brilliant student who is the protegee of a powerful faculty member has committed a dishonest act.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women's colleges, women college teachers [X], scandals, colleges and universities, new england
An Unquiet Mind
International authority on manic-depression tells the story of her own battle with the illness which revealed itself through episodes of violence, bouts of madness and attempts of suicide.
920
year: 1996
copies: 3
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: jamison, kay r, manic-depressive persons, women college teachers [X], manic-depressive psychoses, manic-depressive illness
Still Alice
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.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: alzheimer's disease, women college teachers [X], women teachers, colleges and universities, women linguists
Zig Zag
Elisa, a young physics professor, races against time to solve the mysterious deaths of a number of elite scientists with whom she was sequestered while the group experimented on the "String Theory, " making it possible to witness past events.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Jane Austen Ruined My Life
Emma, the daughter of a minister who has always believed God has a plan for her life, finds her faith shaken when she catches her husband in a compromising position with her assistant, and denied tenure in her position as an English professor because of the resulting scandal, she travels to London in pursuit of a cache of letters written by Jane Austen, and gains insights into her own life and future.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Final Exam
St. Thomas the college north of New York where Alison Bergeron teaches has had its share of scandals so when a Resident Director goes missing they keep it quiet by tapping Alison as a replacement.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
In The Midst Of Winter
"Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teachers, women college teachers [X], women illegal aliens, human rights, fiction / literary, fiction / historical, fiction / general, new york (n.y.), guatemala, chile, romance fiction
Lizzie & Dante
"On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba, the sun-kissed island off the Italian coast, with her best friend and his movie-star boyfriend.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women college teachers [X], cooks, single fathers, cancer, man-woman relationships, single parents, man-woman relationship, cancer patients, elba (italy), romance fiction
M?s All? Del Invierno
"Richard Bowmaster--a sixty-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: college teachers, women college teachers [X], women illegal aliens, human rights, colleges and universities, women, spanish language, unauthorized immigrants, new york (n.y.), guatemala, chile, romance fiction
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia Of Faeries
"In the early 1900s, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore, where she discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fairies, magic, friendship, man-woman relationships, women college teachers [X], cambridge (england), magic realist fiction, romance fiction
Emily Wilde's Map Of The Otherlands
"Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore who just wrote the world's first comprehensive encyclopedia of faeries.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: imaginary places, magic, fairies, women college teachers [X], man-woman relationships, alps, austrian (austria), cambridge (england), magic realist fiction, romance fiction, historical fiction
One Way Back
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: ford, christine blasey, kavanaugh, brett, united states, sexual abuse victims, women college teachers [X], judges, sexual assault, united states, autobiographies