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Authoritas Authoritas Aaron Greenspan Success Has Many Fathers, But One Has The Proof.Aaron Greenspan was just like any other recent Harvard graduate until the day he read that one of his many software inventions, a web site for college … OL13609528W
All the stars in heaven All the stars in heaven Michele Paige Holmes Ever since the woman he once adored told Jay he was a chivalrous hero, he tries to live up to the praise. But dating other girls proves to be a chore, until he meets fellow Harvard student Sarah. He… OL15111826W
Good fortune Good fortune Noni Carter Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, a young girl struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave, gradually rising from working in the fields to the master's h… OL15484094W
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
Penelope Penelope Rebecca Harrington Misfit freshman Penelope is rapidly overwhelmed by the aggressive competitiveness of Harvard University's environment in and out of the classrooms, a situation that is complicated by her crush on an … OL16521377W
Breaking night Breaking night Liz Murray The author offers an account of her journey from a fifteen-year-old living on the streets and eating garbage to her acceptance into Harvard, a feat that prompted a Lifetime movie and a successful mot… OL19667604W
Harvard beats Yale 29-29 Harvard beats Yale 29-29 Kevin Rafferty Based on the critically acclaimed documentary, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 tells the story of the most famous college football game in history. One of the most legendary games in the history of sports: … OL19667656W
Harvard Square Harvard Square André Aciman An Egyptian-Jewish Harvard graduate student trying to assimilate into American culture in 1977 befriends an impetuous, loud Arab cab driver and must choose between his dream or his friend. This is a… OL19671108W
Authoritas Authoritas Aaron Greenspan Aaron Greenspan was just like any other recent Harvard graduate until the day he read that his invention, a web site called The Facebook, was worth billions of dollars—and someone else was taking the… OL19927994W
Platform 10 Platform 10 Jon Lott,John May 1 volume : 24 cm OL20222500W
An expensive education An expensive education Nick McDonell A happily married mother of two in a tenure-track job at Harvard, she has just won a Pulitzer Prize for her book lionizing Hatashil, an East African freedom fighter. David Ayan is her singular Somali… OL21178189W
The red book The red book Deborah Copaken Centering around Harvard's Red Book, a collection of personal triumphs and failures from graduates, this tongue-in-cheek novel follows a group of roommates from the class of 1989 as they prepare for … OL21185539W
Harvard University Harvard University Douglass Shand-Tucci "The Campus Guide: Harvard University offers an insider's view of America's oldest college and a guided tour of the campus and its landmark buildings, from nineteenth-century works by Charles Bulfinc… OL2648624W
Love Story Love Story Erich Segal Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law . . . Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe… OL2656058W
Harvard Rules Harvard Rules Richard Bradley It is the richest, most influential, most powerful university in the world, but at the beginning of 2001, Harvard was in crisis. Students complained that a Harvard education had grown mediocre. Profe… OL274982W
Darconville's cat Darconville's cat Alexander Theroux Darconville (and his cat Spellvexit) go to teach in an all girl's school (Quinsy College) in Virginia; he is fated to fall in love with a freshman student, Isabel, "Isabel, Isabel Isabel . . . " "… OL2962655W
The Struggle for Modernism The Struggle for Modernism Anthony Alofsin "For the first time in history, what were once the disparate schools of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning came together at Harvard University in the 1930s to forge a new vision … OL4315409W
The search for God at Harvard The search for God at Harvard Ari L. Goldman,Ari L. Goldman In 1985, Ari L Goldman took a year's leave from his job as a religion reporter for The New York Times and enrolled in the Harvard Divinity School. What began as a project to deepen his knowledge of w… OL4481312W
Health capital financing Health capital financing Jonathan Betz Brown xx, 218 pages : 23 cm OL4984148W
Copey of Harvard Copey of Harvard J. Donald Adams This portrait of the great teacher, catalyst and stimulus, is a warm and capacious tribute to the man who was not only a legend in his lifetime but an enduring influence- as the testimony of the many… OL7005958W
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