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Cambridge brotherhood volume 1
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English
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The new Duke has a proper scandal brewing. Quinton Errington is perfectly happy teaching at Cambridge, with his elder brother carrying the duties of being the Duke of Wesley. But when a trip to celebrate Wesley's last week of bachelorhood ends in tragedy, Quinton, who becomes the Duke, would give anything to have his brother back. Wesley's would-be bride, Catherine Greatheart, is left heartbroken and alone. Her grandmother has fallen ill, and Catherine...
62) 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.
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Publisher
Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"English professor and aspiring novelist, Grace Warner spends her days teaching four sections of "Beowulf for Cretins" to bored and disinterested students at one of New England's "hidden ivy" colleges. Not long after she is dumped by her longtime girlfriend, Grace meets the engaging and mysterious Abbie on a cross-country flight. Sparks fly on and off the plane as the two strangers give in to one night of reckless passion with no strings attached,...
64) Deep pockets
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Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Hired by a respected Harvard professor whose indiscretions with a student are being threatened by a blackmailer, Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle struggles with her morals to track down the blackmailer.
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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.
67) River Road
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Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a professor accused of killing her favorite student in a hit-and-run accident.
68) Foolscap
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Irresistibly attracted to the theater from an early age, Theodore Ryan, a brilliant yet unknown playwright, concocts a daring scheme that will propel him into the world's spotlight and satisfy his need for recognition.
70) Dead as a dodo
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Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Murder strikes in the natural history museum of the University of Oxford, famed for its zoological specimens. PI Homer Kelly, a Harvard professor who is in town to give a lecture, will solve it.
71) Wittgenstein Jr
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Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
No one expects very much of an undergraduate: he should know that. None of us will fail our degrees, it is true--no one fails anymore. But none of us will excel, either. We're here to fill the classrooms, and pay the fees. We're here to populate the corridors, and sit decorously on the steps. What does it matter what we think?--Backcover.
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English
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"In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious that she is grossly underprepared for a talk she is presenting tomorrow on optimism and John Maynard Keynes, she has resolved to practice by using an ancient rhetorical method of assigning parts of her speech to different rooms in her house, and has brought along a comforting albeit imaginary companion to keep...
73) If we had known
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
English professor Maggie Daley and her college-student daughter struggle with guilt, fear, and the dangerous bonds of family in the aftermath of a mass shooting in their small New England town when it is revealed that the gunman had been one of Maggie's students.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Presents the hilarious and incisive story of Paul, a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, who, outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, is plagued by indignities as he tries to right the world's wrongs.
76) 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
77) Irish coffee
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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.
78) The small room
Author
Series
Norton library volume N832
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
Beginning her first teaching job, at a New England women's college, Lucy Winter is embroiled in a scandal that tests the personal and academic lives of teachers and students alike.
Author
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.
80) I am watching
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A professor of criminal psychology returns to her hometown to interview the serial killer whose crimes left an indelible mark on her childhood.
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