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41) Third degree
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Struggling with uncertainties about her NYPD detective boyfriend's marriage proposal, college professor Alison Bergeron witnesses the murder of an unpopular blogger and subsequently realizes that the case is more complicated than it appears.
42) Lunar Park
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Becoming a best-selling novelist and wealthy celebrity while still in college, only to have his fame disintegrate in a sea of booze and drugs, the narrator gets a new chance at life, but his new life unravels after a series of grotesque murders.
43) Away from her
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xvi, 76 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Married for fifty years, Grant and Fiona's perfect life together is shattered after Fiona is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
44) Green thumb
Author
Series
Notre Dame mysteries volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Interweaving narratives that move between past and present follow a young ballerina whose life is upended when she falls in love with her much-older mentor, and a professor of dance at a Midwestern college who has a risky affair with a student.
Author
Series
Meg Langslow mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
vi, 309 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
47) Final exam
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Filling in for a resident director who has disappeared under suspicious circumstances, college professor Alison Bergeron and her boyfriend, Detective Bobby Crawford, discover that the unwanted assignment can only be ended if they find the missing man.
48) Herzog
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
xxvi, 371 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
A suffering and persecuted intellectual, Moses E. Herzog passively accepts the disasters of his private and public affairs in an effort to survive modern civilization.
49) Uneasy relations
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
vi, 278 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Joining a team researching a prehistoric ceremonial burial of a human woman and a part-human, part-Neanderthal child on Gibralter, forensics specialist Professor Gideon Oliver is confronted by all-too-modern murder when two suspicious deaths rock Gibralter.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Description
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.
52) Irish gilt
Author
Series
Notre Dame mysteries volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Detective Phil Knight teams up with his brother, Notre Dame professor Roger Knight, to investigate the theft of some valuable artifacts and the killing of a researcher, crimes that may be linked to a nineteenth-century theologian.
Author
Series
Vine mess volume 1
Description
Returning home to his family's California winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his Ivy League job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is aburst of color in his gray-scale life.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Doug, the husband of the [heir to a historic estate that once housed an arts colony], desperately needs the colony files to get his stalled academic career back on track. But what he discovers when he finally gets his hands on them is more than he bargained for. Doug may never learn the house's secrets, but the reader will, as Makkai leads us on a ... journey into the past of this eccentric family"--
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
169 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Description
Vellitt's quest to find a former student who may be the only person who can save her community takes her through a world governed by a seemingly arbitrary dream logic in which she occasionally glimpses an underlying but mysterious order, a world ruled by capricious gods and populated by the creatures of dreams and nightmares.
56) White noise
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 20 cm
Description
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...
57) I remember you
Author
Publisher
Downtown Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
439 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
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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"Professor Pi Suleman, a Black man from Memphis, has to endure a lot as an adjunct professor at the city's University Along the Nile, a hard-earned career that is crushing his spirit. At the same time, he's being blackmailed by another professor. When he meets Gemma Buckingham, who has just moved to Memphis from London, things begin looking up. But Pi's romance is interrupted when his absentee father, a celebrated author who had an extramarital affair...
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"The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. 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. Honestly, it’s...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular...
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