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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on Culture and Civilization, taught not for undergraduates...
102) Last stories
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Language
English
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The beloved and acclaimed William Trevor's last ten stories. With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales -- nine of which have never been published in book form -- that illuminate the human condition and will surely linger in the reader's mind long after closing...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
316 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fiona Claridge, a smart and stylish New England college professor, strives to pull herself together after a car crash kills her roommate, Mia Hardy. Yet Fiona's guilt and grief come flooding back after opening a gift-wrapped box left outside her office that contains car keys and a malicious note. Shaken, Fiona travels to her hometown to attend a funeral but is followed by vivid nightmares as well as her unknown enemy, who leaves another sinister gift...
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Series
Jason Bourne volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 29
Physical Desc
453 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jason Bourne is known and feared in the deadly world of covert-ops as one of the most highly skilled assassins for hire. Bourne, however, was merely an identity assumed by CIA agent David Webb, a personality implanted by the CIA to facilitate a dangerous operation, but one that threatened to subsume David Webb entirely. Years after the events of The Bourne Identity, Webb is no longer an active CIA agent and is now a professor of Eastern Studies at...
105) Pym: a novel
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
322 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes is obsessed with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel. When he discovers the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that seems to confirm the reality of Poe’s fiction, he resolves to seek out Tsalal, the remote island of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes with horror. Jaynes imagines it to be the last untouched bastion of...
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Series
Daniel Jacobus mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 322 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vaclav Herza, the last of a dying breed of great but tyrannical conductors, has been music director of Harmonium for forty years. The world famous touring orchestra was created for him when he fled Czechoslovakia for America during the political turmoil in Eastern Europe in 1956. It is the eve of the opening of a dramatic new concert hall designed by Herza himself. It is also the eleventh hour of intense contract negotiations with the musicians that...
107) Hex
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in Biological Science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote. Her mentor, Dr. Joan Kallas, preoccupies her thoughts. Nell frequently finds herself standing in the doorway to Joan's office despite herself. Surrounded by an ex, a best friend, a boyfriend, and a husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships, grudges, and obsessions. The six are...
108) Vladímír: a novel
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me." And so we are introduced to our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose charismatic husband at the same small liberal arts college is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extra-marital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life...
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
205 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
George and Harold, and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while the other two hide in the tree house and play video games all day-then they switch! But when their malicious gym teacher, Mr Meaner, creates a method of mind control that turns their fellow students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, the future of all humanity will be in their hands!
110) Election: a novel
Author
Series
Tracy Flick volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
210 pages 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Tracy Flick Can't Win comes a darkly hilarious novel about a high school election that brings out the worst in everyone—the basis for the film starring Reese Witherspoon!
Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She’s one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
A novel about a young woman’s life-altering affair with a much older, married woman.
Mallory is a freshman in college when she meets the woman. She sees her for the first time at the university’s gym, immediately entranced by this elegant, older person, whom she later learns is married and works at the school. Before long, they begin a clandestine affair. Self-possessed, successful, brilliant, and aloof, the woman absolutely consumes Mallory,...
112) The body lies
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"A dark, thrilling new novel from the best-selling author of Longbourn: a work of riveting psychological suspense that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world--or in the pages of a book--when the stakes are dangerously high. When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote English countryside, it's meant to be a fresh start, away from the bustle of London and the scene of a violent assault she is desperate to forget. But...
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Language
English
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Description
When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must sign a nondisclosure agreement in return for the...
Author
Series
Portuguese irregular verbs volume 4
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
203 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of the highly regarded Portuguese Irregular Verbs (200 LTD copies sold!) and a pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg, finds that life is very difficult these days. His academic rival (and owner of a one-legged dachsund) Detlev-Amadeus Unterholzer has been winning undeserved recognition. With help from the matchmaking Ophelia Prinzel, he stumbles towards...
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Series
Daniel Pitt novels volume 5
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt's university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The murders are keeping his mind occupied, but when Ian learns that their old professor, Nicholas Wolford, has been charged with plagiarism, he takes the time to personally ask Daniel to defend their beloved teacher. For help catching who Londoners are now calling the 'Rainy Day Slasher,' Ian also enlists Daniel's...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Carol Danvers has "been a fighter pilot, an Avenger, and a friend of flerkens, but now she's facing her most difficult job yet: driving instructor. And teaching Nadia Van Dyne--a.k.a. The Unstoppable Wasp--how to drive gets a whole lot harder when A.I.M. gets ahold of some Pym Particles. Suddenly tiny, can Carol and Nadia figure out A.I.M.'s plot before it's too late?"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Way to a Man's Heart: On the surface, Meghan O'Day and Grey Carlyle seem like they couldn't be more different. But stuffy literature professor Grey keeps coming back to the diner where bubbly Meghan works--and it's not just for the coffee and pie. They both love chatting about books, and Meghan has opinions on the classics she's not afraid to share. She also thinks she could teach the professor a thing or two about happily-ever-after.
Fallen...
118) Mania: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who...
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Series
Montana Creeds volume Prequel
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
223 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the holidays with the Creed forefathers -- Montana men who built the family homestead and established a legacy of love. In the unforgiving Montana wilderness of 1910, widowed rancher Lincoln Creed is up against more than rustlers, wolves and the coming winter storms. His young daughter has needs beyond the beans and bacon he can barely cook. Lincoln must find little Gracie a governess, a lady who can teach and cook -- yet won't set her sights...
120) Repressed
Author
Series
Deadly secrets volume 1
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hidden Falls is exactly as Samantha Parker left it — small, insular, and prone to gossip. Eighteen years have passed since she witnessed her brother’s murder, but she’s still the talk of the town. Until a handsome child psychologist with haunting memories of his own arrives. Dr. Ethan McClane isn’t exactly a newcomer. If it weren’t for his latest case, he’d never set foot back in Hidden Falls. Thankfully, no one seems to recognize him...
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