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Language
English
Description
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee Members . Once more into the breach ... Now is the fall of his discontent, as Jason Fitger, newly appointed chair of the English Department of Payne University, takes arms against a sea of troubles, personal...
82) The visitor
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen and full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. He lives alone and is no longer motivated by his work. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, but has kept since his wife was alive, only to discover a young couple living there. Despite their great cultural differences, Walter befriends Tarek, a Syrian citizen and drummer, and gradually builds a friendship...
83) Arcadia
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Physical Desc
509 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie. One day, while chasing Lytten's cat, Rosie encounters a doorway in his cellar. She steps through and finds herself in an idyllic, pastoral land where Storytellers are revered above all others. There she meets a...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
While vacationing on Elba, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford, who received a devastating diagnosis, meets a sardonic chef named Dante, his battered dog Lily, and his 12-year-old daughter Etta, who is desperate for a mother, and wonders if it is right to fall in love when time is short.
86) The bullet
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly comes a heart-pounding story about fear, family secrets, and one woman's hunt for answers about the murder of her parents. Caroline Cashion, a professor of French literature at Georgetown University, is stunned when an MRI reveals that she has a bullet lodged near the base of her skull. It makes no sense: she has never been shot. She has no entry wound. No scar. When she confronts her parents, they initially...
87) Tail Gait
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Spring has sprung in Crozet, Virginia--a time for old friends to gather and bid farewell to the doldrums of winter. Harry and her husband, Fair, are enjoying a cozy dinner with some of the town's leading citizens, including beloved University of Virginia history professor Greg 'Ginger' McConnell and several members of UVA's celebrated 1959 football team. But beneath the cloak of conviviality lurks a sinister specter from the distant past that threatens...
88) Bad habits
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Claire 'Mac' Woods--a professor enjoying her newfound hotshot status at an academic conference--finally has the acceptance and admiration she has long craved. But at the conference's hotel bar, Mac is surprised to run into a face from a past she'd rather forget: the moneyed, effortlessly perfect Gwendolyn Whitney, Mac's foil, rival, and former best friend. When Gwen moved to town in high school, Claire--then known as Mac, a poor kid from a troubled...
89) An unquiet mind
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Lexile measure
1240L
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
90) Kiss of darkness
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When some of his students disappear while in Transylvania, professor Bryan McAllister believes that a dark cult is at work. Bryan approaches psychologist Jessica Fraser for help, but she is hesitant to comply. Something about Bryan unnerves Jessica deeply, yet she cannot ignore the incredible pull she feels toward him.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
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
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...
95) Mrs. God
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub, the tale of a literary sojourn that turns into something far more sinister.
Esswood House. Home and estate of the Seneschal family, aristocratic patrons of the literary arts for well over a hundred years. D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, and Henry James were privileged to call themselves guests. There was always talk of a hidden secret in Esswood's past, and the Seneschal children...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Mysterious Press edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 250 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Colorful Christmas lights dapple the family homes in the idyllic lakeside town of Sweet Haven when Jennifer Dean, a young librarian at the local elementary school, is brutally murdered. There are witnesses and her boyfriend Travis Blake confesses to the crime...but something doesn't quite add up. Blake is a third generation Army Ranger, awarded the Silver Star for his heroism in Afghanistan--how could a beloved son of this tight-knit burgh commit...
Author
Description
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer, who wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Matilda Goodman is an wedding photographer grappling with her failure to live as an artist and the very bad lie she has told her boyfriend-- that she has a dead twin. Harry, her (totally alive) brother, is an untenured professor of literature, anxiously contemplating his publishing status (unpublished) and sleeping with a student. Then Matilda invites her boyfriend home for Thanksgiving to meet the family, and Harry makes an unethical move to save...
Author
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.
100) The Grasshopper King
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...