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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and...
2) Still alice
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English
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Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud...
3) On beauty
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English
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Struggling with a stale marriage and the misguided passions of his three adult children, art professor Howard Belsey finds his family life thrown into turmoil by his son's engagement to the socially prominent daughter of a right-wing icon.
4) The maidens
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered...
5) Storm watch
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Joe Pickett novels volume 23
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English
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When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor's vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor's frozen and mutilated body. When he attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents,...
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World of spies volume 1
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Language
English
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"Interpol asks married college professors Hollis and Finn Larsson to procure a priceless rare book manuscript abroad. They are soon left with fifty thousand euros and a possible death threat"--
9) Honest doubt
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Series
Kate Fansler mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When the misogynistic and offensive Charles Haycock, professor of Victorian literature, is found murdered, his son hires private investigator Estelle "Woody" Woodhaven to find the killer, and Woody enlists the assistance of academic sleuth Kate Fansler
10) Absolute friends
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English
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By chance and not by choice, Ted Mundy, eternal striver, failed writer, and expatriate son of a British Army officer, used to be a spy. But that was in the good old Cold War days when a cinder-block wall divided Berlin and the enemy was easy to recognize. Today, Mundy is a down-at-heel tour guide in southern Germany, dodging creditors, supporting a new family, and keeping an eye out for trouble while in spare moments vigorously questioning the actions...
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Series
Notre Dame mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Notre Dame Professor Roger Knight and his PI brother Philip investigate a baffling puzzle when some extremely rare literary documents turn up missing.
12) Irish coffee
Author
Series
Notre Dame mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Academic and amateur sleuth Roger Knight and his P.I. brother, Phil, investigate the apparent murder of a member of the Notre Dame athletic department.
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Honey Creek volume 3
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English
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"Benjamin Monroe is pretty sure how his life will play out. He'll continue teaching chemistry in his small college, and spend his free time biking through the valley. Eventually, he'll retire to putter around in his garden and greenhouse. His colleague, Virginia Clark, is not one for routines. She's chatty, spontaneous, and bubbly, and before Benjamin realizes what happened, she's talked him into collaborating on a research project--studying the mating...
14) Dead soldiers
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Series
Carl Burns mysteries volume 4
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English
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First, someone steals several valuable toy soldiers from the collection of the dean of a small liberal arts school. The dean asks Carl Burns, Chair of the English Department, to look into things. Then a college board member is killed, and one of the stolen soldiers is found at the scene. After another attempted murder, another soldier is found, making a clear link between the stolen toys and the shooting. Burns begins asking questions and finds himself...
15) Murder 101
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Series
Murder 101 mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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English professor Allison Bergeron has left the chaos of Manhattan for a small college in the Bronx when her car is stolen. The police drop by with news that they found her beat-up Volvo ... with the body of one of her students in the trunk.
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Pepper Keane series volume 1
Publisher
RB Large Print
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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A brutal rape and murder. A robbery and bullet to the head. An apparent suicide. Three victims, three different states, and three apparently unrelated cases. But when Boulder math professor Jayne Smyers discovers each victim had been researching the geometric shapes know as fractals, she knows it was not coincidence. After federal agents fail to link the deaths, Jayne hires Nederland private eye Pepper Keane-former JAG with a Diet Coke addiction,...
17) Steal
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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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.
Everyone is surprised when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart's Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. Twenty-four...
18) Irish gilt
Author
Series
Notre Dame mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
South Bend detective Phil Knight isn't intrested in the intellectual pursuits of his brother Roger, a Notre Dame professor ... at least not until they lead to intriguing cases for Phil to investigate. Phil introduces Roger to Boris Henry because they share an interest in legendary Father Zahm, a 19th-century Notre Dame priest. Boris has come to the university to access the Notre Dame archives, which house many valuable Zahm aritifacts. The trouble...
19) Seven letters
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English
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"J. P. Monninger, author of the international bestseller The Map That Leads to You, the novel Nicholas Sparks called "romantic and unforgettable", tells a poignant love story of the ways the world divides two souls--and the way that love brings them together. Kate Moreton is in Ireland on sabbatical from her teaching position at Dartmouth College when she meets Ozzie Ferriter, a fisherman and a veteran of the American war in Afghanistan. The Ferriter...
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"Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy. How do you catch a killer if the victim doesn't exist? 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...
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