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Author
Series
Lila Maclean academic mystery volume 3
Publisher
Henery Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
English professor Lila Maclean is drawn into a murder investigation after she agrees to consult on Stonedale University's theatrical production of Puzzled: the musical.
62) The tunnel
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
After completing the manuscript of a book entitled The Guilt and Innocence of Hitler's Germany, a famous historian who teaches at a university sits down to write the introduction. But instead he finds himself writing on the guilt and innocence of his own life. A look at the craft of resurrecting the past by the author of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.
63) A single man
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor in Los Angeles struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A middle aged college professor has an affair with a beautiful young coed. To get even, his wife sleeps with a sexy young carpenter. When the four of them decide to vaction together, their getaway will test the limits of love, jealousy, and freedom.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
John Kenneth Galbraith's third novel, A Tenured Professor, is at once an intriguing tale of morality and a comic delight. Montgomery Martin, a Harvard economics professor, creates a stock forecasting model, which makes it possible for him to uncover society's hidden agendas. Seeking proof that human folly has no limit when motivated by greed, Martin initiates mass hysteria that causes investors to assume that up is the only direction. Hailed as "Galbraith's...
66) Beasts
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Set against the drug-induced backdrop of the 1970s, a powerful novel follows talented Gillian Brauer, a junior at Catamount College, who falls in love with the bohemian existence of rebellious professor Andre Harrow and his sculptress wife Dorcas, as she becomes addicted to their world and soon learns the true meaning of Dorcas's motto "We are beasts and this is our consolation."
68) 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
Amish-country mystery volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a group of Amish teenagers on their Rumschpringe test is torn apart by the murder of one and the abduction of another, Professor Michael Branden joins forces with Holmes County Sheriff Bruce Robertson and Pastor Cal Troyer to find a murderer and a kidnapper, break up a deadly drug ring, and find the missing teen, all the while struggling with the reluctance of the Amish to trust the law.
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....
74) Small ceremonies
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
On the surface Judith Gill, the protagonist, is a nobody, a middle-class housewife with two children living in a small town. But her job as a biographer has taught her it is the little things in life that count, and from that point of view her story is alive with action. By the author of The Stone Diaries, for which she won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan volume 5
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot exist, featuring Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic. Legends, no matter how outlandish, are often grounded in reality. This has been the guiding principle behind the exhilarating career of Jeremy Logan, the "enigmologist"--An investigator who specializes in analyzing...
Author
Series
[Homer Kelly mystery] volume 14
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Sleuth Homer Kelly, a policeman-turned-professor and his camera-totting wife, Mary, travel to Venice for a conference on rare books. While there, thanks to a picture Mary took, they solve the theft of rare artifacts and a murder.
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an "only in America" story of a life of achievement.
Author
Language
English
Description
Offered a fantastic job in a rising star's political campaign on condition that she will work abroad and return to Washington after spending a dream year at Oxford, Ella clashes with, and then falls for, an outspoken literature professor with a life-changing secret that forces her to rethink her ambitions.
Author
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It is 1883 and America is at a crossroads. The Civil War is nearly twenty years in the past, Reconstruction has been crushed in the South, and the Gilded Age is bringing unprecedented prosperity to some, along with radical social and class conflicts. At a tiny college in upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist...
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