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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.

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.

Elisa, a young physics professor, races against time to solve the mysterious deaths of a number of elite scientists with whom she was sequestered while the group experimented on the "String Theory, " making it possible to witness past events.

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.

Otto Starks, a former security guard with hyperdeveloped senses, goes after Rat Burglar, whose theiving abilities cost Otto his job, reputation, and Carlie Izzo--the woman Otto loves--but in order to recover the art and Charlie, Otto must break all the laws he has spent his entire life protecting.

Ralph Messenger finds his commitment to his wife tested when a recently widowed novelist begins working alongside him at the University of Gloucester.

Eight linked stories tracing the history of a painting by the 17th century Dutch artist, Vermeer. In one, he paints his daughter to pay off debts, a second story describes the loss of the ownership papers, a third takes place on the eve of its theft by the Nazis. By the author of What Love Sees.