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"Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology, the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party--much less get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog Shadow, and the Fair Folk to that of friends or lovers....
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English
Description
"Zee Devohr is a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents' wealth yet lives in their carriage house. Her mother, Gracie, claims she can tell our lot in life by looking at your teeth and Bruce, her stepfather, stockpiles supplies for Y2K. Zee's husband, Doug, an out-of-work academic, is stalled on his biography of poet Edwin Parfitt, who was in residence at the house when it served as the Laurelfield Arts Colony. But when Doug begins to poke...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. The rest is just shuffling the sequence. Expanding the permutations. Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out--calculating the different orders and possibilities of a mystery into seven perfect detective stories he quietly published. But that was thirty years ago. Now Grant lives in seclusion on a remote Mediterranean island,...
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English
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"I won't say a word. Cross my heart and hope to die..." Jonah Baum, a professor of poetry at a local college in Vermont, sees his ordinary life come tumbling down when his wife and young daughter vanish from their home. No evidence of a kidnapping. No sign of murder. No proof that Rebecca didn't simply abandon her marriage. Just Sally's crude and chilling drawings, Jonah's little lies, and the sheriff's nagging fears that nothing is what it seems....
45) Impact
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When a brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast, and NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars, it's just the start of the adventure for a former CIA operative, technicians, and many others.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014], 2015.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the Midwest ... His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels ... In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this ... novel uses to tell that tale is a series of ... letters...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Chandler State University is the one thing keeping the dusty, Western town of Chandler on the map. Now that its basketball program has fallen apart, CSU's only claim to fame is its Gravinics Department, dedicated to the study of an obscure European country-its mythology, its extraordinarily difficult language, and especially its bizarre star poet, Henderson. Having discovered Henderson's poetry in a trash bin, Stanley Higgs becomes the foremost scholar...
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English
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A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. But according to public records, neither of them exists. The only leads police have are several objects arranged around the woman's body, including a set of keys and a book called How to Process a Murder by Laughton Rees--a book that appears to have helped the killer forensically cleanse the crime scene. Laughton Rees is an academic who doesn't usually...
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
After ten years teaching in the English Department at New England's exclusive Enfield College, Professor Karen Pelletier is finally up for tenure. But when her rival for the position is found dead, Karen becomes the police's number one suspect. To complicate matters, political tensions on campus are rising and two of Karen's favorite students get caught up in the furor.
51) Rookery blues
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"English professor Bonnie Blythe expects her life to play out like her favorite novels, especially now that her long-term boyfriend has finally proposed. So when a shocking discovery leads Bonnie to end her engagement, she decides to close the book on love. But the plot thickens when a brand-new character enters the scene--and quickens Bonnie's heart. With his brilliant blue eyes, sexy accent, and irresistible charm, Theo Wharton is like a romantic...
53) God's not dead
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Pure Flix Entertainment, LLC
Language
English
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It's the debate of the ages; this time, held in a seemingly insignificant venue, but the outcome, as always, will be life-changing. A Christian college freshman, Josh Wheaton, and his atheist philosophy professor hold court on the existence of God. To pass the course, Josh must prove to the class that God is alive and well. This dare could cost him his relationships, his career, even his future, but Josh stands up for his faith and takes on the challenge....
54) Steal
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the son of the founder of the world's largest hedge fund is thought to have committed suicide, but a body hasn't been found, his father, believing that he is still alive, turns to Dylan Reinhart for help, drawing him into a world of multi-million-dollar secrets and danger.
Imagine everyones surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinharts Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. 24 hours...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 254 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring memoir of one man's transformation through literature and debate from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator -- all by the age of 27"--
Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball court, not his presence in the classroom. He turned to the streets and drug deals by fourteen, saved only by the dream of basketball...
56) Dr. No: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for 'nothing.') He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not...
57) The good ones
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Ryder Copeland is an accomplished architect and one heck of a father...not to mention tall and sexy. He's everything a hero should be, and Lord knows, Maisy Kelly has read enough of her great-aunt Eloise's romance novels to recognize one when she sees one. But like all fairy tales, Maisy can't help but wonder if this Prince Charming is too good to be true... Ryder is drawn to the shy, curly-haired professor who hires him to convert the Victorian house...
Author
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court; this is the true behind-the-scenes story of that testimony.
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She described...
59) Bold Fortune
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Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The official protector of all the unspoiled beauty in Lost Lake, Alaska, frontiersman Quinn Fortune meets his match in cheerful professor Violet Parrish, who agrees to spend one month in the Alaskan wilderness in exchange for his approval on a land proposal.
60) Cats & dogs
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Know to be man's best friends, cats and dogs have engaged in a fierce and merciless battle. Now, Mr. Tinkles, a ruthless cat, is plotting intensively to achieve nothing less than world domination. His main target is Professor Brody. The professor is working on a medication that will rid people of their dog hair allergies. Mr. Tinkles strives to get to the substance and have it analyzed. He then means to have it altered so that all humans of the world...