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Nevada Barr |
In 1971, the state of Minnesota was rocked by the "Butcher Boy" incident, as coverage of a family brutally murdered by one of their own swept across newspapers and television screens nationwide. Now,… |
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The devil of Nanking
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Mo Hayder |
Now reissued as a B-format paperback, an extraordinary, electrifying thriller by one of Britain's bestselling crime-writers.Tokyo, 1990Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching fo… |
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Generosity
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Richard Powers |
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. About halfway into Powers's follow-up to his National Book Award–winning The Echo Maker, a Nobel Prize-winning author, during a panel discussion, talks about h… |
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The God hater
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Bill Myers |
A cranky, atheistic philosophy professor is chosen to create a philosophy for a computer world exactly like ours. Much to his frustration, every model he introduces - Darwinism, Existentialism, Buddh… |
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The Haunting
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Hope Tarr |
Investigating a noise in the attic of her historic home, Maggie Holliday encounters a handsome man in a Civil War uniform. He calls her "Isabel," seduces her in ways the shy academic had never dreame… |
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The Trinity Six
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Charles Cumming |
Europe is still littered with the darkest secrets of the Cold War. And the most deadly revelation of them all is about to be made! Hard-up Russia expert Dr Sam Gaddis finally has a lead for a book th… |
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Death in a Tenured Position
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Amanda Cross |
It's only because Janet Mandelbaum is no feminist that the stuffy old boys of Harvard agree to make her the first female professor in the English department.
But they're not happy about it.
A… |
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Vane pursuit
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Charlotte MacLeod |
Seventh in the Professor Peter Shandy mystery series
>A dastardly gang of rogues is sneaking around Balaclava county, snatching priceless antique Praxiteles Lumpkin weathervanes. Before they disap… |
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The corpse in Oozak's Pond
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Charlotte MacLeod |
Sixth in the Professor Peter Shandy mystery series
> Avid birdwatcher Professor Peter Shandy of Balaclava Agricultural College scans the wind-swept waters of Oozak's Pond. Suddenly, out from under… |
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My latest grievance
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Elinor Lipman |
"Chafing under the care of "the most annoyingly evenhanded parental team in the history of civilization," Frederica is starting to feel that her life is stiflingly snug. Into this cozy world, comes M… |
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A weekend with Mr. Darcy
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Victoria Connelly |
Dr Katherine Roberts is a lecturer at Oxford University and an expert on all things Austen. But she has a guilty secret; a love of racy Regency novels by Lorna Warwick. She's even struck up a long-di… |
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Terms of surrender
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Leslie Kelly |
"Subject: Danny Wilkes, navy pilot. Current status: On shore rotation. Very intrigued by a sassy visiting lecturer ... Mission: Enter the astronaut training program. Obstacle: Marissa Marshall, Ph.D.… |
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The demonologist
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Andrew Pyper |
During a visit to Venice, Professor David Ullman--one of the world's leading authorities on demonic literature--witnesses a terror in a tiny attic room. Then his 12-year-old daughter Tess disappears … |
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Six Years
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Scott Brick,Harlan Coben |
Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six y… |
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Más allá del invierno
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Isabel Allende |
In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a … |
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Sandrine's case
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Thomas H. Cook |
Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him. He's a meek, stuffy doctorate student, and she's a brilliant, beautiful bohemian with limitless talent and imagination. Yet on the surface the… |
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Death in the Latin quarter
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Raphael Cardetti |
Valentine Savi, a talented young restorer, receives a visitor offering a unique commission: to restore a priceless medieval manuscript whose pages promise to reveal the truth of a fascinating mystery… |
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The professor of truth
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Robertson, James |
Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were killed in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, English lecturer Alan Tealing comes to believe that the wrong man was convicted and hunts down the pe… |
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A Person of Interest
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Susan Choi |
From an acclaimed novelist, an emotionally complex and riveting story of suspicion, innocence, and regretWhen a mail bomb explodes in the campus office next door, Lee, an Asian American math professo… |
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A trap for fools
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Amanda Cross |
Murder in the academy |
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