Literature professor Dr. Addie Cox is living a happy, if sheltered, life in her ivory tower when Harris Lang, the famously eccentric billionaire tech genius, offers her an unusual job. He wants her to guide a mercenary strike team sent...
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Author:Carrie, VaughnSummary: - Author:Hynes, JamesSummary:
This set of novellas from Austin, Texas resident James Hynes was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. As chilling as the best of Edgar Allan Poe and bursting with fiendish humor,...
- Author:Oliver, KatieSummary:
"Like a modern-day Agatha Christie bestowed with a hefty dollop of Jane Austen." - Laura Childs, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jane Austen meets reality TV and murder in this quirky cozy mystery-the first in a new...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Von Igelfeld is the world's leading scholar on Portuguese irregular verbs, having written a majestic, nearly 1,200-page book on the subject. As one review says, "There is nothing more to be said on this subject. Nothing." But in other...
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Author:Stephens, CarolineSummary: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...
- Author:Le Carré, JohnSummary:
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...
- Author:Duckworth, H. E.Summary:
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-...
- Author:Gingrich, Newt, Forstchen, William R.Summary:
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.
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Author:Lane, AmySummary: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...
- Author:Van Rensburg, LaureSummary:
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...
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Author:Lane, AmySummary: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,...
- Author:Lauren, ChristinaSummary:
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...
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Author:Bowen, GailSummary: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...
- Author:Fleming, Brandon P.Summary:
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.
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Author:Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary: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...
- Author:Krauss, NicoleSummary:
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...
- Author:Amis, KingsleySummary:
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...
- Author:Bégin, MoniqueSummary:
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...
- Author:Forest, JeanSummary:
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...
- Author:Bégin, Monique, Théry, Chantal, Bersianik, Louky, Blais, Marie-Claire, Gagnon, Gabriel, Gagnon, Madeleine, Marcotte, Gilles, Rocher, GuySummary:
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...
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