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Guided by riddles and symbols from the pages of "Paradise Lost," Professor David Ullman, a leading authority on demonic literature, searches for his daughter in Venice after she falls from their hotel, with the last words of "find me".

Englishman Howard Belsey struggles to revive his love for his African-American wife as he works abroad at an American college, but when a disastrous affair is revealed, Howard learns his actions may have dire consequences on every member of his family.

Writing professor William Henry Devereaux Jr. tries not to let the absurdities of academia get him down, but life becomes a bit hard to handle when he has his nose slashed by a feminist colleague, he is accused of murdering a goose, he suspects his wife of having an affair, and he confronts his long-lost father.

The marriage of Lemaster Carlyle, president of a small, prestigious New England university, and his wife Julia, dean of the university's divinity school, is put to the test when they discover the murdered body of economics professor Kellen Zant, Julia's former lover, and she refuses to accept the ruling that he was a victim of a random robbery.

The author's account of teaching America's "underprepared" and of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university.

Sy Leving, a high school teacher troubled by bad decisions and alcohol, leaves New York City for a fresh start in the Pacific Northwest, where he imagines there will be pioneers and covered wagons, but when he arrives at Cascadia College for his new instructor position, he finds himself in new dilemmas that take him back to where he started.

Coleman Silk, a New England professor forced into retirement on false charges of racism, has a fifty-year-old secret that Philip Roth attempts to decipher in this 1990s novel set against the backdrop of Presidential impeachment and professional witchhunts.

Manuel, a forty something history professor in Spain, seduces Luc?a, a seventeen-year-old Latin American-born orphan attending a Catholic boarding school in Madrid, as he tells her the story of Juana of Castile, a queen who, after the death of her husband, was imprisoned by his family for allegedly being mentally unstable.

Believing he has discovered the burial chamber of a near-mythical Egyptian pharaoh and a mystical double crown, famed archaeologist Porter Stone and his team suffer bizarre accidents that Professor Jeremy Logan is brought in to investigate.

Amish farmer Enos Erb asks history professor Michael Branden to investigate the death of his brother, which he believes was a murder, and the amateur sleuth finds links between the Amish case and the apparent suicide of a college student.