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422) Anesthesia
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
While on his way home one evening, Walter Zarrow, a popular Columbia University philosophy professor, is violently attacked on the street. Flashing back one week to the beginning of a domino effect of events that led up to this seemingly senseless assault, the film traces hidden connections between an apparently disparate group of people.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
When a prominent professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. Until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor's vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor's frozen and mutilated body. When he attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents, extreme environmentalists, and...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Jasper Tempest is a Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University. He is obsessed with cleanliness, structure and order, but his genius for solving crimes means he is constantly having to get his hands dirty, helping the police to crack their most difficult cases. Every aspect of Professor Jasper Tempest's life is precisely calibrated and rigidly structured. Impeccably dressed and meticulously punctual, he lectures daily at the Cambridge Institute...
427) Numb3rs: Season 6
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
FBI agent Don and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie, work together to solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very distinct perspective.
428) Match made in heaven
Author
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
Fifty-year-old Harvard literature professor Elliott Goodman, stricken by a heart attack, is rushed to the nearest emergency room and prepped for bypass surgery. Frightened and in pain, he cries out to God for help. Much to his surprise, God appears, suspended from the ceiling of the OR. He asks Elliott why his life deserves to be saved, and Elliott has no brilliant answer to offer. God, in his infinite wisdom and mercy, gives him a chance at salvation....
Series
Shout select volume 93
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
An overweight chemistry professor falls for a colleague and develops a potion to change himself into a ladykiller; professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow scientist Denise Gaines, but his alter ego intervenes. It is up to his family to save the day.
433) Leaves of Grass
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
After his twin brother Brady's reported death lures him home to Oklahoma, Ivy League classics professor Bill Kincaid becomes involved in Brady's scheme to bring down a local drug lord.
434) The Bourne Legacy
Author
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
Jason Bourne, now a professor at Georgetown University, feels life is finally his own-until he becomes the target of an assassin.
435) Wit
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
436) Irish coffee
Author
Series
Notre Dame mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Description
Academic and amateur sleuth Roger Knight and his P.I. brother, Phil, investigate the apparent murder of a member of the Notre Dame athletic department.
437) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection volume 85
Pub. Date
2000, c1938
Description
Professor Henry Higgins (Howard) works to make a pretty flower girl (Hiller) into a young lady of society.
438) Smart people
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a physician and former student of Lawrence who remembers her disappointment...
439) The visitor
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. He lives alone and is no longer motivated by his work. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, but has kept since his wife was alive, only to discover a young couple living there. Despite their great cultural differences, Walter befriends Tarek, a Syrian citizen and drummer, and gradually builds a friendship...
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
A discovery of alien lifeforms that coud change the world. But when the aliens try to take over the planet, our four stellar heroes rocket into action to save us. The laughter hits you at the speed of light in the comedy about heavenly bodies, mutual attraction and close encounters.
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