Dean Ryder is a rough and ready PI, the kind of man who will take on any case, just to prove his worth. His lover Matthew? Not so much. Matthew is an English professor who much prefers his books to Dean’s adventures ... but that doesn’t...
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- Auteur:Stephens, CarolineSommaire:
- Auteur:Le Carré, JohnSommaire:
In the wake of the collapse of Lehmann 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...
- Auteur:Duckworth, H. E.Sommaire:
In his engaging memoirs, One Version of the Facts: My Life in the Ivory Tower, Dr. Henry Duckworth takes readers from his student days in Winnipeg and Chicago in the 1930s to his time as president of the University of Winnipeg (1971-...
- Auteur:Gingrich, Newt, Forstchen, William R.Sommaire:
In a small North Carolina town, one man struggles to save his family after America loses a war that will send it back to the Dark Ages. This is the story of a war scenario that could become all too terrifyingly real.
- Auteur:Lane, AmySommaire:
Il professore universitario James Richards è prigioniero della routine e sente il peso dei suoi anni. Si è trasferito nella California del Nord per sfuggire al dolore e all’umiliazione, ma finora l’unica cosa buona che gli è capitata è...
- Auteur:Van Rensburg, LaureSommaire:
Ellie, an NYU grad student, is eager for the perfect weekend away with her boyfriend Steven, a wealthy and privileged professor at Barnard College. When they head out for their romantic break, they're both excited to get to know...
- Auteur:Lane, AmySommaire:
El profesor James Richards se encuentra atrapado por la rutina y ha empezado a notar el peso de la edad. Se siente perseguido por su fracaso sentimental y la humillación que ha sufrido, a pesar de haberse mudado al norte de California,...
- Auteur:Lauren, ChristinaSommaire:
From the New York Times bestselling author that "hilariously depicts modern dating" (Us Weekly) comes a sexy romantic comedy about online dating, and its many, many fails. With a world-famous speaker at their university, Mille...
- Auteur:Bowen, GailSommaire:
As a child Joanne was friends with Sally Love and her parents, but the friendship languished after Sally’s father died and she moved away, eventually becoming a very controversial artist. When the Mendel Gallery opens an exhibition of...
- Auteur:Fleming, Brandon P.Sommaire:
Brandon P. Fleming shares the story of his transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate, all by the age of twenty-seven.
- Auteur:Edwards, Ruth DudleySommaire:
St. Martha’s College, Cambridge, had been staggering along on a shoestring for decades. Then alumna Alice Toon leaves her old school a huge fortune. The dons immediately fall to fighting over the spoils. The Virgins, led by Dame Maud...
- Auteur:Krauss, NicoleSommaire:
Samson Greene, who, during the removal of a brain tumor, loses his adult memories. Feeling lost as an outsider in his own life, Samson agrees to participate in a scientific experiment in which memories are grafted from one brain to...
- Auteur:Amis, KingsleySommaire:
This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university. The story leads the listener through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend...
- Auteur:Bégin, Monique, Rae, BobSommaire:
More than fifty years after most Canadian women received the right to vote, very few women were elected as members of Parliament and none came from Quebec. Canada's 1972 federal election marked a refreshing transition. Twice as many...
- Auteur:Forest, JeanSommaire:
Ne te dis pas heureux avant ta dernière heure, disaient les Grecs de l’Antiquité, sans doute parce qu’ils avaient compris qu’il ne fallait pas se fier aux apparences, aux masques que l’on porte en société. Il arrive parfois que les...
- Auteur:Bégin, Monique, Théry, Chantal, Bersianik, Louky, Blais, Marie-Claire, Gagnon, Gabriel, Gagnon, Madeleine, Marcotte, Gilles, Rocher, GuySommaire:
En 1938, Jeanne Lapointe est la première jeune laïque diplômée de la toute nouvelle Faculté des lettres de l’Université Laval et la première récipiendaire de la médaille d’or (pour ses études de langue française) décernée par le...
- Auteur:Lane, AmySommaire:
College professor James Richards is in a rut and feeling his age. He moved to northern California to escape heartbreak and humiliation, but so far the only good thing to happen to him has been his Boston terrier, Marlowe. Then James’s...
- Auteur:Stern, GuySommaire:
Invisible Ink is the story of Guy Stern's remarkable life. This is not a Holocaust memoir; however, Stern makes it clear that the horrors of the Holocaust and his remarkable escape from Nazi Germany created the central driving...
- Auteur:Bellow, SaulSommaire:
This National Book Award winning novel traces five days in the life of a man whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both his own life and the complexity of modern life.
- Auteur:Wilson, SariSommaire:
In the summer of 1977, eleven-year-old Mira enters the high-stakes world of New York City ballet, a fiercely competitive world of struggle, obsession, passion for beauty--and something sinister that will challenge her, protect her, and...