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"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...
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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Sarah Deane, having accepted a one-semester post teaching English at Miss Merritt's New England boarding school for girls, is upset by the increasing threats against iron-fisted French teacher Mme. Grace Carpentier, but she is spurred to investigate when another teacher is found murdered along a campus path.
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Tres has taken a short-term teaching job at the University of Texas at Austin. He is living with his brother Garrett, a computer wizard, and enjoying this easy assignment. But when Garrett's business partner is murdered, Tres must switch from professor to detective. Rick Riordan, teacher, Texan, and multiple award-winner, creates a masterful mixture of local color and mystery in each Tres Navarre mystery.
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College English professor Alison Bergeron thought that dating a cute NYPD detective like Bobby Crawford would be exciting and involve a lot of riding around in cruisers and putting away sleazy crooks, but he has yet to invite her on any stakeouts. . . .
Then when a friend asks her to help him find his nephew, she goes to Bobby for advice only to find out that he already knows about the case. He pulled the boy out of the Hudson River a few days earlier....
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Fleeing a scandal that tarnished her Brahmin family, Charulata arrives at Miss Timmins' School for Girls in Panchgani three weeks before her twenty-first birthday in 1974, where she begins teaching Shakespeare to rich Indian girls, but, while the school brings about opportunities for new cultural experiences, Charu finds herself implicated in a murder investigation.
11) Outline
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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"Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and...
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The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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The Violent Child portrays the life of a tenacious woman who struggled to make a home for her son, to nurture the disabled daughter of her lover, and to embrace the gift of an unexpected, unconventional love. It is the story of a son who finds himself, at the end of his mother's life, with a final opportunity for reconciliation.
13) The Apology
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University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A scorching psychological drama about family, betrayal and the limits of forgiveness. Adrian Pomeroy teaches English at an all-boys school full of bullshit artists in blazers'. When he finds himself at the centre of an allegation that might end his career, his life starts to unravel in spectacular fashion. With a police investigation underway, Adrian turns to his detective brother for help, but Noel is battling crippling demons of his own. As the...
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The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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In My Father's Fighter, Vincent Rosen, a 35-year-old Manhattan English teacher, inherits the management of a prizefighter from his father. The fighter is Mickey Davis, a white light-heavyweight contender with a doomed air, a reputation for dirty fighting, and plenty of neuroses and sexual obsessions. With his Ivy League education and bookish nature, Vincent does not share his father's passion for boxing, yet is slowly seduced by the fighting world....
15) Wisdom Tree
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Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Sometimes the last thing we think we need is exactly what God has plannedAfter the death of his parents, Jake Samuels has enough on his plate?including a fledgling church to lead and a mischievous younger brother to raise. The last thing he needs is a rambunctious woman to contend with.Carin O'Malley is dealing with the death of her brother and a new job as an English teacher at East Ridge Middle School where Corey Samuels reigns as King of Chaos....
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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2023.
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English
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A sleuthing English professor looks into the sordid secret life of a student who's gone missing . . .
When a young woman comes to Professor Pennyfeather and confides that her cousin Ernestine-one of his English students-is missing, he's surprised to hear that the bookish girl in his class is a very different person outside of school. Apparently, in the evenings, she transforms herself into a femme fatale and looks for naïve young sailors at...
17) Transit
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of 2015 In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has,...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A sleuthing Oxford professor hunts a village blackmailer, in a novel by an author who "combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue, and a touch of hilarity" (The New York Times).
In the sleepy English village of Sanford Angelorum, Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen is taking a break from his books to run for Parliament. At first glance, the village he's come to canvass appears perfectly peaceful, but Fen soon discovers that appearances...
19) Turning Japanese
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The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Gou ni itte wa, gou ni shitagae, runs an old Japanese proverb: Obey the customs of the village you enter. Just don't overdo things. It may already be too late for Cricket Collins, a recent Ivy League graduate who travels to Osaka for his first real job as an English instructor. The time is late 1970s, with Japan quickly becoming the new find-yourself region that India was to the backpack set in the 1960s. From pachinko parlors to paper cranes,...
20) Holy Disorders
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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This 1945 classic British mystery from "a master of the whodunnit . . . combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue and a touch of surreal hilarity" (The New York Times Book Review).
On holiday in the town of Tolnbridge with his butterfly net in hand, Prof. Gervase Fen, Oxford don of English Literature, is all set for a good frolic when he learns that the cathedral organist has been murdered. With Scotland Yard unable to make sense of the crime,...
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