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1) Outline
Author
Series
Outline volume 1
Language
English
Description
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Severely dyslexic and wanting to know more, he took it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford's...
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A satire on academia set in a California college where teaching takes second place to empire building and writing of novels. The chief protagonist is Olga Kominska, a professor of theory, and the novel describes how colleagues exploit her and she exploits them.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"From the #1 international bestselling author of The Lost Wife and The Velvet Hours comes an emotionally charged story about a mothers love, a teachers promise, and a child's heart. Katya, a rising ballerina, and Sasha, a graduate student, are young and in love when an unexpected tragedy befalls their native Kiev. Years later, after the couple has safely emigrated to America the consequences of this incident cause their son, Yuri, to be born with...
Author
Series
Carl Burns mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
7) Murder 101
Author
Series
Murder 101 mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Frederica Potter series volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
The tumultuous events in this tale of a brilliant, eccentric and fatefully divided family begin with the staging of a play about Elizabeth I and come to a shattering climax sure to keep Byatt fans spellbound.
Author
Series
Nick Hoffman mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Terrace Books, a trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Successful professor Nick Hoffman finds his secure, happy, college-town life changed forever after a nightmarish encounter with police. A novel of suspense set in the academic world, Assault with a Deadly Lie probes the disturbing psychological impact of slander, harassment, stalking, police brutality, and the loss of personal safety.
10) Transit
Author
Series
Outline volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions-personal, moral, artistic, and practical-as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
A satirical comedy of manners featuring the morbidly obese Norman Laney, an unorthodox, inspirational English teacher and college counselor for an elite private school in Mountain Brook, a privileged community outside of Birmingham. A natural wonder from blue-collar Alabama, Laney has barged into the exclusive world of Mountain Brook on the strength of his sensational figure and its several-hundred-pound commitment to art and culture. His mission...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? A prestigious boys' boarding school. A best friend's betrayal. A decades-old mystery of a missing student. In this sharp literary thriller, Matthias Glass gets drawn into his past as he attempts to come to terms with the long-ago disappearance of his prep-school roommate--and to become the man he is meant to be In the middle of his senior year at the Blackburne School in Virginia, Matthias Glass's...
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