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The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it's a pretty...
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Emily Wilde volume 1
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"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. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology, the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small...
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"One daring to-do list and a crash course in flirtation turn a Type A overachiever's world upside down. When her flailing department lands on the university's chopping block, Professor Naya Turner's friends convince her to shed her frumpy cardigan for anevening on the town. For one night her focus will stray from her demanding job and she'll tackle a new kind of to-do list. When she meets a charming stranger in town on business, he presents the perfect...
4) The bullet
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After a life-changing revelation from her adoptive parents, Professor Caroline Cashion returns home to discover the truth about her past and why her biological parents were murdered--and to find the killer before he finds her.
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Happily ever after (Jenn McKinlay) volume 1
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Ryder Copeland is an accomplished architect...not to mention tall and sexy. He's everything a hero should be, and Lord knows Maisy Kelly has read enough of her great-aunt Eloise's romance novels to recognize one when she sees one. But like all fairy tales, Maisy can't help but wonder if this Prince Charming is too good to be true. Ryder is drawn to the shy, curly-haired professor who hires him to convert the Victorian house she's inherited into a...
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"For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why? All she wants is for life to get back to normal, but normal is looking hard to come by. She's thirty-eight and hobbles with a cane. Her first student interaction...
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Berkley Prime Crime
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A consultant on a new reality show "Who Wants to Marry Mr. Darcy," English professor Phaedra Brighton, whose expertise lies in all things Jane Austen, adds sleuth to her resume when she has to clear her best friend's name of murder on the set.
13) Unforgiven
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Deep Ops novels volume 5
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English
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"Run: Gemma Falls never expected to use her game theory expertise to outrun a killer. But for years, that skill is all that kept her one step ahead of a deadly stalker. When Gemma gets the chance to teach at D.C. University, she hopes she and her young daughter have found a safe harbor. The only flaw is the arrogant philosophy professor who's always underfoot giving unwanted advice - in his sexy British accent . . . Hide: Jethro Hanson has blood on...
15) Bold Fortune
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Fortunes of Lost Lake volume 1
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Jove
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The official protector of all the unspoiled beauty in Lost Lake, Alaska, frontiersman Quinn Fortune meets his match in cheerful professor Violet Parrish who agrees to spend one month in the Alaskan wilderness in exchange for his approval on a land proposal.
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Joanne Kilbourn mysteries volume 13
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McClelland & Stewart
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The night after Jo and Zack have dinner with Zack's colleague Margot and one of his law firm's biggest clients, the developer Leland Hunter, Jo and Zack's house is blown up. They're at the lake with daughter Taylor and their dogs, but the house is destroyed. And that is only the first of several terrible incidents.
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Silverado Lake volume 1
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Forever
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English
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Perfect for fans of Jennifer Ryan, Maisie Yates and Carolyn Brown, this first book in an all new series follows the second-chance romance between enemies who soon become lovers.
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In 1954, Emilia Winthrop, a professor at Wellesley College, is summoned to CIA headquarters, where she is forced to confront the harrowing consequences of the summer she exposed a traitor amongst the New England elite and a choice that could destroy her chance for redemption all over again.
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