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61) What comes next
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012.
Language
English
Description
After the police falter in their investigation, a retired college professor vows to track down a young woman he witnessed being snatched off the street, kidnapped by a sadistic couple who put their victim's slow torture up for public display on the Internet.
Author
Series
Amish-country mystery volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As another college year draws to an end, Professor Michael Branden is weary after nearly thirty years of teaching. Sitting in his office on a warm spring day, he receives an unexpected visit from an Amish man who claims his brother, a dwarf like himself, has been murdered. Their discussion of the odd details of the case is interrupted by a commotion on campus, which turns out to be the apparent suicide of a young woman, who, it seems, has leapt to...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Isadora Bentley believes that happiness is something that flat-out doesn't exist in her life -- and never will. As a university researcher, Isadora keeps to herself as much as possible. She avoids the students she's supposed to befriend and mentor. She lives her own quiet, organized life in her own quiet, organized apartment. And she will never get involved in a romantic relationship again -- especially with another academic. It will be just Isadora...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the 'silent planet' Earth whose tragic story is known throughout the universe....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When her ex-husband turns up dead, Alison Bergeron, a professor at an upstate New York college, teams up with her on-again, off-again lover, married NYPD Homicide Detective Bobby Crawford, to prove that the killing is linked to a local mob boss.
66) Ravelstein
Author
Publisher
Compass Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Encouraged by his friend, Chick, to write down his ideas about humankind, university professor Abe Ravelstein receives unexpected acclaim and bounty and invites Chick to join his his success, a situation that sparks a philosophical journey for both.
67) Misión olvido
Author
Publisher
Atria Español
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
When her longtime marriage abruptly ends in the wake of her husband's infidelity, Madrid college professor Blanca Perea struggles to rebuild her own life by researching that of an enigmatic Spanish writer who died decades earlier.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of accusations against her professor husband by former students--a situation that becomes more complicated when she herself develops an obsession of her own.
69) The good husband
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
A flamboyant woman professor holds court as she lies dying from cancer. The novel traces the effect she has on the people around her: her self-effacing, much younger husband who left the priesthood to marry her, another professor who is suffering from writer's block, and the professor's wife who is falling in love with the ex-priest. By the author of Father Melancholy's Daughter.
70) El profesor
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
As retired professor Adrian Thomas leaves his doctor's office after being diagnosed with untreatable Lewy body dementia, he witnesses the kidnapping of Jennifer Riggins, and determines to use his remaining time to rescue her.
Author
Series
World of spies mystery volume 1
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Interpol asks married college professors Hollis and Finn Larsson to procure a priceless rare book manuscript abroad. They are soon left with fifty thousand euros and a possible death threat"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible"- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan "en el más profundo invierno de sus vidas": una chilena, una joven guatemalteca indocumentada y un maduro norteamericano. Los tres sobreviven a un terrible temporal de nieve que cae en pleno invierno...
73) The crazed
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2002.
Language
English
Description
Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor begins to rave, pleading with invisible tormentors and denouncing his family... Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life. The Professor's...
75) God in Concord
Author
Series
[Homer Kelly mystery] volume 9
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Homer Kelly is trying to cope with the changes to his beloved Concord: an influx of tourists and boutiques, a convergence of homeless, even a proposed mall on the banks of Walden Pond. But when some retirees begins to meet untimely deaths, he draws the line.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Narrowly escaping with her life after a gunman storms the University of Texas campus, classics professor Sophie Chase joins an expedition to recover ancient papyrus manuscripts buried in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and uncovers the gripping story of an ancient Roman slave girl, while a secret and powerful cabal will stop at nothing to gain control of the scrolls.
77) Porterhouse blue
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
The new Cambridge Master outlines plans to do things that simply aren't done: the admission of women, a cafeteria to replace the revered service of the kitchens, and contraceptive despensers in every bathroom. Those who support the old ways rally to prevent the changes leading to the most bizarre disaster seen at Cambridge in five hundred years.
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Von Igelfeld is the world's leading scholar on Portuguese irregular verbs, having written a majestic, nearly 1,200-page book on the subject. As one review says, "There is nothing more to be said on this subject. Nothing." But in other matters, von Igelfeld is not nearly so skilled. Whether haplessly playing tennis against an equally dreadful opponent, or committing his friends to swordfighting duels without their knowledge, von Igelfeld is somewhat...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song--written by world-famous superstar Jonesy--but Jane hasn't had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents' house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she's seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight--the other Tom Hardy, an elegantly...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Honor Holland has just been unceremoniously rejected by her lifelong crush. And now--a mere three weeks later--Mr. Perfect is engaged to her best friend. But resilient, reliable Honor is going to pick herself up, dust herself off, and get back out there -- or she would if dating in Manningsport, New York, population 715, wasn't easier said than done. Charming, handsome British professor Tom Barlow just wants to do right by his unofficial stepson,...
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