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

Alice Howland, a fifty-year-old cognitive psychology professor at Harvard, starts to experience early-onset Alzheimer's, initially becoming disoriented around town and eventually losing track of rooms in her home before resigning from Harvard and attempting to hold onto the severe change in her life.

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.

Follow the sad and happy journey of the new Latin teacher at Brookfield School, Charles Edward Chippings, as he rises from a mere teacher to "Chips, " the most beloved member of the faculty.

Charlotte Hale, a secretary for a local newspaper in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1900, is given the chance to prove herself as a reporter when her boss asks her to go undercover as a governess to investigate a scandal about Daniel Wilmont, a young, widowed religion professor who writes a controversial column in a rival paper, but she begins to have qualms when she discovers Daniel to be honorable, sincere, and easy to love.

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.

This novel follows the lives of the inhabitants of Laurelfield, an estate north of Chicago, from 1900 to 1999, including Violet Devohr, the original inhabitant, who returns as a ghost and haunts subsequent generations, and her great-granddaughter, Zee.

Family man Michael Ahearn, a professor of literature at a small college in the upper Midwest, allows his search for the sublime to lead him into disaster when he becomes infatuated with new faculty member Lara Purcell and follows her back to her native island of St. Trinity, a place rife with political intrigue and superstition.

Evan Birch's steady life as a husband, father, and professor of philosophy is ruined when he is wrongfully accused of kidnapping a local high school cheerleader.

James Lasdun, an author, poet, and professor, offers his own words on the ordeal he went through with a former student who styled herself a "verbal terrorist." This student claimed to love him, but that love turned to hate apparently and she made it her goal to, in her words, "ruin him" through hate mail and public accusations of sexual misconduct and plagiarism.