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201) Disgrace
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After an affair with a student ruins his career, a professor moves to the Eastern Cape countryside with his daughter where they become victims of a violent attack.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by "Esquire magazine as "one of America's best young writers." Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to bring him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumor saves his life, but his memories beyond the age of twelve...
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"I NEVER LEFT HOME is a memoir by Margaret Randall, capturing details about her life as an American writer, activist, and academic who lived in Latin America for twenty-three years. Randall resettled in the United States in the eighties, after waging a successful five-year battle against deportation. The memoir, which chronologically charts her time in the United States, Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, reproduces the meaning and feelings of particular...
204) Independent bones
Author
Series
Sarah Booth Delaney mystery volume 23
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Carolyn Haines's Independent Bones is the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as "Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. When Dr. Alala Diakos, a visiting professor of Greek literature, comes to teach at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, it doesn't take long for controversy to follow. With her fervent feminist ideals and revolutionary leanings, she quickly...
205) Darkside
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
At the US Naval Academy, the students refer to the administration as the Darkside, a nickname befitting the secrecy and manipulation that occur behind closed office doors. So when a first-year student falls to his death from a campus building, the Academy tenses as the Darkside begins to creep out of the shadows to cut off any potential scandal. Retired naval aviator Ev Markham is now a professor at the Academy. When a provocative clue connects the...
206) Pym: a novel
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
A comic reimagining of America's racial history follows a book collector's enslavement by giant Antarctic ice creatures after he learns that Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished novel is actually a true story.
Author
Publisher
Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, in cooperation with Deseret Book
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This book gathers together brief messages entitled Notes from an Amateur that were periodically sent to BYU faculty members by former academic vice president John S. Tanner. The word amateur derives from the Latin for love a lover of sport, science, or art. Enhanced by the evocative art of Brian Kershisnik, Tanner s words reflect his years of experience as a scholar, an administrator, and a disciple, addressing with characteristic insight and wisdom...
Author
Series
[Homer Kelly mystery] volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
As Homer and Mary Kelly research the life of Mary's ancestor Seth Morgan, the story of Seth's life and disappearance during the battle of Gettysburg unfolds.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Up in arms: Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.
Wonder man: Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn....
210) Anesthesia
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
While on his way home one evening, Walter Zarrow, a popular Columbia University philosophy professor, is violently attacked on the street. Flashing back one week to the beginning of a domino effect of events that led up to this seemingly senseless assault, the film traces hidden connections between an apparently disparate group of people.
211) 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.
212) The Escher twist
Author
Series
[Homer Kelly mystery] volume 16
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
An exhibit of the work of the Dutch artist M. C. Escher is being held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, home to amateur sleuths Homer and Mary Kelly and their friend Leonard Sheldrake. At the exhibit, Leonard, an avid Escher fan, falls instantly in love with a woman in a green coat who is equally enthralled by Escher's brilliance. To Leonard's dismay, she hurriedly leaves the exhibit, hinting to him that if he knew her better, he would not love her. Homer...
Author
Language
English
Description
June 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for...
214) The homecoming
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Homecoming is the first film to explore the rural roots of African American life. It chronicles the generations-old struggle of African Americans for land of their own which pitted them against both the Southern white power structure and the federal agencies responsible for helping them. Director Charlene Gilbert weaves this history together with a fond portrait of her own Georgia farming family into what she calls, "A story of land and love." Like...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When feisty young Professor Karen Pelletier receives a serendipitious scholarly bonanza in the form of never-before-seen manuscripts and journals by the nineteenth-century poet Emmeline Foster, who is rumored to have killed herself for the love of Edgar Allan Poe, she finds herself going head-to-head with Enfield College's resident Edgar Allan Poe expert, Elliot Corbin, an academic windbag of monumental proportions. When Corbin is stabbed to death...
216) L'immortelle
Publisher
Redemption Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
N, a Frenchman traveling in Istanbul, meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in a ring dealing in kidnapped women being used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears, leaving N to retrace their steps throughout the city and interrogate several people they came into contact with. He finds her again and then she suddenly dies in a fatal car wreck, leading N to retrace his steps...
Author
Publisher
Blank Slate Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The allure of literary letters and rare first editions captures the imaginations of three professors of English literature and leads to tragedy in the wake of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995. Professor Martin Dean receives a mysterious package with several smaller packages within it, including a manuscript from a recently deceased former student. The manuscript tells Jack Springs' story -- a story he had never revealed to anyone. As a newly-minted...
218) 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.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury--bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood--is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose...
Author
Series
Footprints volume 22
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvelous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behavior of giraffe in the wild. Years later, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a similar devotion to study the behavior of wild apes. In Smitten by Giraffe the noted feminist reflects on her scientific work as well...
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