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1) The executor
Author
Language
English
Description
Unemployed and homeless after being dumped by his girlfriend, perpetual graduate student Joseph Geist answers a strange ad for a companion conversationalist and enters the world of Alma Spielman, who poses a fateful challenge.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel inspired by the controversial psychedelic drug experiments of Timothy Leary traces the impact of LSD and communal living on a 1960s Harvard grad student and his wife.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Enrolling in the prestigious Law and Literature course at Franklin University to exact revenge on the professor she believes is responsible for her sister’s death, Jessie Mooney will cross any line to hold him accountable as the truth becomes darkly twisted.
8) The seeker
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a graduate student discovers a diary proving her aunt was a close companion of Henry David Thoreau, she travels to Walden Pond searching for dissertation material, but instead finds something malevolent living in the woods.
9) Real life
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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
Dutton
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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...
12) Summer sons
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost. Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew...
13) Bunny
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
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
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Amanda Brooks is a born-and-bred New Yorker with an envious life: she's in a great graduate school program, lives in a cozy Tribeca apartment, and is head-over-heels for her handsome, committed boyfriend. But Amanda's life isn't as picture perfect as it seems. For over a decade she's been hiding a dark secret--a secret that goes back to that summer at Camp Catalpa when a man died in the woods. Fellow campers Catherine and Meg were there too, and...
Author
Series
Love hypothesis volume 2
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When forced to work on a project with your nemesis, it's best to stick to the science. Further research could trigger explosive results. Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project-a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia-Marie would accept without...