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1) Hell bent
Author
Series
An Alex Stern novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Alex Stern returns in #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent, another tale of murder and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell-even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren't just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven,...
3) Murder Games
Author
Language
English
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Description
A tenacious Manhattan police officer determined to stop a serial killer who leaves playing cards at the scenes of unrelated victims teams up with a brilliant professor whose book has been connected to the murders against a backdrop of high-profile tabloid speculation.
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Language
English
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Description
"Tom Putnam, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. For more than ten years, his wife Marjory has been a shut-in, a fragile and frigid woman whose neuroses have left her fully dependent on Tom and his formidable mother-in-law, Agnes Tattle. Tom considers his unhappy condition self-inflicted, since Marjory's condition was exacerbated by her discovery of Tom's brief and misguided...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two...
7) John Woman
Author
Language
English
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Description
A young man reinvents himself as a professor to share his late father's wisdom at an unorthodox university, only to encounter fellow intellectuals who have insights into his father's hidden past.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"We are introduced to a popular English professor whose charismatic husband at the same small liberal arts college is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extra-marital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life has become far less comfortable for them both. And when our narrator becomes increasingly infatuated with Vladimir, a celebrated,...
Author
Series
Ladies of Summerhill novel volume Bk. 2
Language
English
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Description
Working as a secretary for a local newspaper, Charlotte Hale jumps at the chance to become a reporter when she is asked to go undercover as a governess to look into a scandal surrounding Daniel Wilmont, a religion professor and widower who writes a controversial column for a rival newspaper.