Henry Carter Hull

Professor Karen Pelletier, eager to finally become tenured as an English professor at the exclusive Enfield College, is harassed by the police when her rival, Professor Joseph Lone Wolf, is found dead due to an overdose of peyote, and as she tries to survive an investigation, the political climate on campus becomes heated and increasingly dangerous.

"A vivid, atmospheric mystery about 1951 Hollywood...this is a winner." -David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author In June 1951, Edna Ferber heads to Hollywood to support her friend Max Jeffries who has found himself blacklisted after the McCarthy hearings in Washington rattled Hollywood with allegations of Communist-leaning sympathies. Edna first met Max when he worked on the 1927 Broadway production of Show Boat, and now he's brought his...

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord—families who summer at Martha’s Vineyard—and the inner circle...

Ha Jin's seismically powerful new novel is at once an unblinking look into the bell jar of communist Chinese society and a portrait of the eternal compromises and deceptions of the human state. When the venerable professor Yang, a teacher of literature at a provincial university, has a stroke, his student Jian Wan is assigned to care for him. Since the dutiful Jian plans to marry his mentor's beautiful, icy daughter, the job requires delicacy. Just...

Homer and his wife fight to restore the besmirched legacy of a long-dead relative Homer and Mary Kelly have wandered through Harvard University's Memorial Hall dozens of times, but never have they lingered over the long list of alumni who died for the Union during the Civil War. One afternoon, the setting sun casts its light on the name of Seth Morgan, Mary's disgraced great-great-grandfather. She knows little of her ancestor's life, for family lore...

Harvard professor Wilson Chaney is in a comprising position. His marriage, his reputation, and his career are all being held hostage. Chaney needs Carlotta's help to ferret out the blackmailer and retrieve the last of the incriminating love letters he sent freshman student Denali Brinkman-before she committed suicide in a Memorial Drive boathouse. It's a nasty bit of business, but Carlotta reluctantly agrees to help the dishonorable mentor. However,...