![]() ![]() Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. ![]() Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig-until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. ![]() 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. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain. ![]()
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Lewis, 85, an American historian, is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. This prize is bestowed annually to a distinguished colleague who has made major contributions to the advancement of the art and craft of biography. Among his honors, David Levering Lewis received the 2009 National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama at the White House on February 25, 2010.ĭavid Levering Lewis is the winner of the 12th BIO Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() She and her boyfriend pass the time watching movies in his basement apartment. She has a respectable job at a publishing production firm, where she outsources printing jobs to facilities in China. It's a fierce debut from a writer with seemingly boundless imagination.Ĭandace's life in New York might not be what she dreamed of, but it's not all that bad. 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