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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
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Description
Writing professor William Henry Devereaux Jr. tries not to let the absurdities of academia get him down, but life becomes a bit hard to handle when he has his nose slashed by a feminist colleague, he is accused of murdering a goose, he suspects his wife of having an affair, and he confronts his long-lost father.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Alice Howland, a fifty-year-old cognitive psychology professor at Harvard, starts to experience early-onset Alzheimer's, initially becoming disoriented around town and eventually losing track of rooms in her home before resigning from Harvard and attempting to hold onto the severe change in her life.
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Provides answers to 284 questions about college admission, covering choosing the right school, financial aid, studying abroad, academics, extracurricular activities, applications, standardized tests, interviews, and other related topics.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mark Darrow, having accepted the opportunity to become the head of a local college at the urging of the professor who helped him become a successful trial lawyer, returns to his alma mater where he cannot escape thoughts of a female student who he found dead on the night of his greatest success as a quarterback for the school and for which his friend was sentenced to life in prison, and, when another student is murdered, Mark believes the real killer...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Professor Karen Pelletier, eager to finally become tenured as an English professor at the exclusive Enfield College, is harassed by the police when her rival, Professor Joseph Lone Wolf, is found dead due to an overdose of peyote, and as she tries to survive an investigation, the political climate on campus becomes heated and increasingly dangerous.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Captain Carmine Delmonico, already dealing with trouble within the ranks of his police force in the Holloman suburb of Carew, Connecticut, in 1968, must somehow unite his team to find a rapist whose crimes have escalated to murder.
10) Impact
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
CIA agent Wyman Ford is sent to Cambodia to locate the source of some radioactive gemstones--a mission that has links to a young woman's search for a meteorite she saw streak through the sky in Maine, and the murder of a researcher at the National Propulsion Facility who discovered gamma rays originating from Mars.
Author
Publisher
Quill
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Provides parents with an explanation of the separation process that college-age children go through on their way to healthy independence, and presents a chronological discussion of each stage of that process, from senior year in high school to college graduation.
12) Mona Lisa smile
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In 1953, a free-spirited teacher accepts a teaching job at Wellesley College, and find the students there struggling against the repressive social conditions of the time.
13) Absolute friends
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting international peace and understanding in the post-9/11 world.
Author
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A guide for preparing to take the SAT Spanish subject test that includes ten full-length practice tests with explained answers, review of grammar and vocabulary, a list of idiomatic expressions, test-taking strategies, and an audio CD with listening comprehension sections.
15) The human stain
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk, a New England professor forced into retirement on false charges of racism, has a fifty-year-old secret that Philip Roth attempts to decipher in this 1990s novel set against the backdrop of Presidential impeachment and professional witchhunts.
18) Legendborn
Author
Series
Legendborn volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights"--
After her mother dies in an accident, Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-- until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on...
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Provides study tools for the Biology SAT that covers cellular and molecular biology, heredity, evolution, and organismal biology; including subject reviews, chapter quizzes, test strategies, a short diagnostic test, and two practice tests with explained answers.
20) Footnote
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
עברית
Description
A father and son have become rivals as professors who have dedicated their lives to Talmudic studies, but when the father is mistakenly recognized for a prestigious award meant for his son, the son must determine whether advancing his own career is more important than his father's.
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