college teachers

A Russian-born professor struggles to cope with American idioms and idiosyncrasies at a university in upstate New York.

College teacher Nicholas Baran's attempts to expose the contamination by industrial pollution that he believes caused fatal cancer in himself and others cause him to become the most hated man in town and force him to question his own motives.

Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting international peace and understanding in the post-9/11 world.

Moses Herzog, Ph.D., engages in frantic letter-writing, trying to survive private disasters and those of modern civilization.

Falling in love conjures up old memories and reflections on ethnic identity for a thirty-nine-year-old Arab-American woman in Los Angeles whose only passion heretofore has been the culinary arts.

Tres Navarre, a private investigator who just happens to have a Ph.D. in English literature, steps in to fill the void when a controversial English professor at the University of Texas is murdered, but he decides to take on a little extracurricular work when the evidence against the prime suspect in the killing begins to look a little too perfect.

"Hoping to save his marriage by ending an illicit affair with an incandescent but difficult student, college professor Steven Brookman discovers that the young woman's passions are not easily curtailed and that their relationship has more complicated ramifications than either anticipated"--Provided by OCLC.

The lives of three women, rebellious fifteen-year-old Lucia Moberg, pregnant teen Tanya Yasbeck, and homicide detective Greta Hurd, hurtle toward a violent confrontation after Lucia's father, Oscar, a professor at the State University of New York, is gunned down by a carjacker in the parking lot of a local mall.

Cambridge historian Elizabeth Vogelsang is found dead and her son Cameron asks his former lover, Lydia Brooke, to ghostwrite the final chapters of his late mother's book, but in the process, they uncover disturbing secrets that may have cost Elizabeth her life.

Cambridge art history major Adam Strickland travels to Italy during the summer of 1958 to research a famous sixteenth-century garden, and is drawn into the intrigue of two mysterious deaths that occured four hundred years apart.