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In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz, a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile, for her advice. These three very different people are...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most dramatic and profoundly personal subject matter.
San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets. A disgraced professor takes an office in a downtown tower to plot his return. But, the walls are thin and he's distracted by voices from next door-his...
9) Gothikana
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After receiving an admission letter from a mysterious university in an old secluded castle on top of a mountain, Corvina Clemm gets tangled up in a chilling, century-old mystery as well as with a part-time professor.
10) If we had known
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
With her husband Vladimir under investigation for inappropriate relationships with his former students, a popular English professor finds their extra-marital pursuits taking a toll on their relationship, while a married young novelist becomes dangerously obsessed with Vladimir, threatening to blow their life wide open.
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Series
Something new volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 18 cm.
16) The water witch
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Series
Fairwick chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
340 p. 20 cm.
19) The dying animal
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Series
Kepesh novels volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
156 p. ; 20 cm.
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After the violent death of his oldest daughter during a terrorist bombing, small town college professor Alan "Woody" Woodhall finds himself standing in the cemetery where she was buried. Woody is convinced that life has taught him all the lessons he has to learn: His wife has left him, and his two remaining daughters have grown up and moved away. Yet a new life, which Woody both longs for and resists, begins with his decision to attend the trial of...
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