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13 1/2 13 1/2 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,… OL134386W
The devil of Nanking The devil of Nanking 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… OL14861541W
Generosity Generosity 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… OL14919310W
The God hater The God hater 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… OL15044038W
The Haunting The Haunting 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… OL15192330W
The Trinity Six The Trinity Six 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… OL15691825W
Death in a Tenured Position Death in a Tenured Position 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… OL15842359W
Vane pursuit Vane pursuit 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… OL15845743W
The corpse in Oozak's Pond The corpse in Oozak's Pond 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… OL16032852W
My latest grievance My latest grievance 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… OL16086047W
A weekend with Mr. Darcy A weekend with Mr. Darcy 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… OL16298384W
Terms of surrender Terms of surrender 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.… OL16454943W
The demonologist The demonologist 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 … OL16700095W
Six Years Six Years 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… OL16806999W
Más allá del invierno Más allá del invierno 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 … OL17721361W
Sandrine's case Sandrine's case 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… OL17752287W
Death in the Latin quarter Death in the Latin quarter 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… OL17880875W
The professor of truth The professor of truth 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… OL17914397W
A Person of Interest A Person of Interest 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… OL1848950W
A trap for fools A trap for fools Amanda Cross Murder in the academy OL1857854W
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