Jean Hanff Korelitz
1) The plot
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot is a psychologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written-let alone published-anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot (a Tonight Show Summer Read pick) and You Should Have Known, adapted as HBO's The Undoing, Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer is the story of three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth. The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their...
3) Admission
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known (adapted as "The Undoing" on HBO) comes another page-turning masterpiece, this time on college admissions—now a major motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.
"Admissions. Admission. Aren't there two sides to the word? And two opposing sides...It's what we let in, but it's also what we let out."...
"Admissions. Admission. Aren't there two sides to the word? And two opposing sides...It's what we let in, but it's also what we let out."...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new novel by the author of Admission (a motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd) ... this time about marriage" --Provided by the publisher.
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself: devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital; their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice; she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Naomi Roth is the first female president of Webster College, a once conservative school now known for producing fired-up, progressive graduates. A former student radical herself, Naomi isn't alarmed when Webster students, including her own daughter, begin an outdoor encampment to protest a popular professor's denial of tenure, but when Omar Khayal, a charismatic Palestinian student with a devastating personal history, emerges as the group's leader,...
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Passion, infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductive narrative in this intelligent and tender novel.
At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of the eighteenth-century adventuress, Lady Charlotte Wilcox, she ought to be content. Instead, she is horrified to find herself profoundly in love with twenty-six-year-old...
8) Admission
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 289 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of essays in which daughters remember their relationships with their mothers and the complicated bonds they shared with them, symboliZed by gifts or memories of emotional encounters.
11) Admission
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Blu-ray/DVD combo ed.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 blu-ray disc.
Language
English
Description
A Princeton college admission representative discovers that an applicant might be the son she gave up for adoption.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Revised, Updated
Language
English
Formats
Description
The most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times “Modern Love” column—including stories from the anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, and John Slattery
A young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man’s promising fourth date ends in the emergency room. A female lawyer with...
A young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man’s promising fourth date ends in the emergency room. A female lawyer with...