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Searching for a serial killer who leaves playing cards at the scenes of his crimes, police officer Elizabeth Needham teams up with brilliant professor Dylan Reinhart, whose book has been connected to the murders.

"A memoir in which Nunez wrestles with her mother's determination to have her leave her Trinidadian homeland for America."--Provided by publisher.

Jeremy Logan, an investigator of unnatural phenomena, travels to a remote writers' retreat in the Adirondack Mountains to work on a book but soon learns that a dead hiker has been discovered there whose body has been mauled beyond the work of a bear. The attack occurred during a full moon and many are worried about a werewolf. Scientist Laura Feverbridge shares her research with Logan and he begins to think he's up against something he hasn't seen before.

"Okey Ndibe's funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential--but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency--African Commentary magazine. It recounts stories of Ndibe's relationships with Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and other literary figures; examines the differences between Nigerian and American etiquette and politics; recalls an incident of racial profiling just 13 days after he arrived in the US, in which he was mistaken for a bank robber; considers American stereotypes about Africa (and vice-versa); and juxtaposes African folk tales with Wall Street trickery. All these stories and more come together in a generous, encompassing book about the making of a writer and a new American"--.

Single mother and college professor Gina Paletta finds her attempts to build a safe, protected life for her two sons threatened when two of her students post salacious photographs of her on the Internet and are linked to a series of violent murders.

A near-death experience turned a troubled underachiever into an accomplished English professor. The botched robbery didn't do it. Neither did the three gunshots. It wasn't until he flatlined twice and was administered last rites that David Borkowski finally realized he was about to die, a thug at age fifteen. Convinced the cops were shooting harmless "salt" bullets, David had darted through front lawns as the cops gave chase. It wasn't until much later, when David was bleeding to death, that the cops realized they had hit one of their own---the son of a fellow cop. Funny and poignant, but always honest and reflective, A Shot Story tracks David Borkowski's life before and after the "accident" and tells how his having been a rather unremarkable student early on may have been a blessing in disguise.

When Don Tillman, a genetics professor, decides it is time to get married, he devises a scientific survey designed to filter out undesirables, calling it the "Wife Project." When Don meets Rosie Jarman, she is quickly eliminated as wife material, but when he assists Rosie in a search for her biological father, he discovers that love finds you, not the other way around.

In 1960, Henry, a professor, dreams of finishing his fantasy novel. Angela, a scientist from the far future, takes his idea and makes a doorway to another world. Rosie, Henry's neighbor, wanders through it.

Weaving together the real life, historical expeditions of Ada Blackjack and Robert Bartlett with a contemporary fictional story, How to Survive in the North is a unique and visual narrative journey that shows the strength it takes to survive in even the harshest conditions - whether that be struggling for survival in the Arctic in the 1900s or surviving a mid-life crisis in the present day.