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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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Kepesh novels volume 3
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
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156 p. ; 20 cm.
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Prof. Brandt Savage--grandson of the legendary action hero Doc Savage--is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, "Meed," is demanding. She's also his captor. Savage...
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Jeremy Logan novels volume 3
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Believing he has discovered the burial chamber of a near-mythical Egyptian pharaoh and a mystical double crown, famed archaeologist Porter Stone and his team suffer bizarre accidents that Professor Jeremy Logan is brought in to investigate.
9) 13 1/2
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In present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life until she encounters architect Marshall Marchand, a lifelong bachelor who spends most of his time with his brother Danny. When Polly's two young daughters from her previous marriage are likewise taken with Marshall, she marries him. But then an ominous prediction by a New Orleans tarot card reader proclaims that Polly will murder her husband, and...
10) The Polish boxer
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Polish boxer novels volume 1
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Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2012
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188 p. ; 20 cm.
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The narrator, a Guatemalan literature professor, encounters a number of interesting characters, including a Serbian classical pianist, a young Israeli woman, and a Mayan poet, before persuing his most enigmatic subject--himself.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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303 pages ; 25 cm
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Presents the hilarious and incisive story of Paul, a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, who, outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, is plagued by indignities as he tries to right the world's wrongs.
12) Irish coffee
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Notre Dame mysteries volume 7
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
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247 p. ; 22 cm.
13) Green thumb
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Notre Dame mysteries volume 8
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When a man they discover suffering an apparent heart attack is later revealed to be a murder victim and a supporter of the University of Notre Dame, detectives Phil Knight and Jimmie Stewart learn that the man's rivals are on campus for the weekend.
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Meg Langslow mysteries volume 12
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
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vi, 309 p. ; 22 cm.
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Hosting a Spanish playwright during a graduate student's production of his play, Meg, eight-and-a-half months pregnant with twins, is on the case when the department dean cancels the play and is promptly found murdered.
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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238 pages ; 24 cm
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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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"The Chief of Rally Tree unfolds around Roal's fumbling, poignant, darkly hilarious awakening to adventure and loss as he watches his life gain focus only once he understands how it might look on the evening news. Jennifer Boyden explores in poetic prose the essential questions about what identity is when it is open for collective definition, the effects of looking to media for structure and meaning, the pull toward eco-consciousness, and what our...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
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281 pages ; 22 cm
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Hoping to save his marriage by ending an illicit affair with an incandescent but difficult student, college professor Steven Brookman discovers that the young woman's passions are not easily curtailed and that their relationship has more complicated ramifications than either anticipated.
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Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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501 pages ; 23 cm
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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.
19) White noise
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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310 pages ; 20 cm
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The story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys-radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic...
20) I remember you
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Downtown Press
Pub. Date
2010
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439 p. ; 22 cm.
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British college professor Tess Tennant takes her students on a trip to Rome, where a charming American reporter gives her a romantic tour of the city, until a tragedy causes her past and present to collide.
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