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"El misterioso y atractivo profesor Gabriel Emerson, reconocido especialista en Dante, es un hombre torturado por su pasado y orgulloso del prestigio que ha conseguido, aunque también es consciente de que es un imán para el pecado y, especialmente, para la lujuria. Cuando la virtuosa Julia Mitchell se matricula en el máster que Gabriel imparte en la Universidad de Toronto, la vida de éste cambia irrevocablemente. La relación que mantiene con...
562) Highly charged!
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"Subject: Navy Lieutenant Brad Riddock, explosives expert. Current Status: On leave ... and on alert! Mission: Getting mentally prepared for his next mission. Obstacle: Getting Nikki Thornton out of his head ... and into his bed. All Professor Nikki Thornton wants is to fix up the home she's inherited from a friend. The place is run down, and she's at her wit's end dealing with her friend's hostile relations. On the upside, she has a droolingly hot...
563) Violent faculties
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"A philosophy professor tests the limits of the soul and body by performing dehumanizing experiments on unwilling subjects, after the department is closed due to budget cuts. Violent Faculties follows a philosophy professor influenced by Sade and Bataille. She is ejected by university administrators aiming to impose business strategies in the interest of profit over knowledge. She designs a series of experiments to demonstrate the value of philosophy...
565) The study of secrets
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There could be nowhere more fitting for English professor Lila Maclean to spend her sabbatical than in a proper Victorian mansion. The whimsical Callahan House seems to have materialized from the pages of the mystery novels she is researching, with its enchanting towers, cozy nooks, and charming library. Unfortunately, it also features a body in the study. Residents of Larkston have long believed that the Callahan family is cursed--the murder on the...
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Colección compactos volume 691
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Bonsái : Two young university students studying literature meet at a party and begin a relationship.
La vida priva de los árboles : The story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Julian is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Veronica to return from her art class. Each night, Julian has been improvising a betime story for Daniela - and each Sunday working on a novel about a man tending to his...
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Library of America volume 354
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Roger's version (1986): Roger Lambert, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is stuck in his office by Dale Kohler, a young computer scientist who believes that technical advances in computing shows evidence of God's existence. Then a theological-scientific debate ensues, and Roger employs wicked strategies to disembarrass Dale of his faith. But Dale's passion turns to his erotic attraction to Esther, Roger's much younger wife, that takes her away...
568) Helium: a novel
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"On November 1st 1984, a day after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a nineteen-year-old student travels back from a class trip with his mentor and chemistry teacher, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tire over him, douses him in gasoline and sets him alight.Years later the student, Raj, is compelled to find his professor's widow, the beautiful Nelly. As the two...
569) Cleaning her house
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College professor Elinor Goggin hasn't returned to spend a summer in Coopersville, West Virginia, in twenty-five years, but this July she's helping her hospitalized mother by decluttering the hoarded family home. Yet her mom, always critical of her, is furious that Elinor is even touching any part of the overflowing collection of random possessions. County inspector Race Ericson threatens a court summons if the hoard isn't massively reduced in a hurry,...
570) Seaside whispers
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"Having a mad crush on her boss's son, Matt Lacroux- an intriguing mix of proper gentleman and flirtatious bad boy- is probably not the smartest idea for single mother Mira Savage. Especially when the company, and her job, is already on shaky ground. But as a Princeton professor, Matt's life is hours away from Mira's home on Cape Cod, keeping him safely in the fantasy-only zone. And as a single mother to six-year-old Hagen, with a floundering company...
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"Mezcla de narcoliteratura, novela de campus y autoficción, Yo no he muerto en México cuenta la historia de Alejandro Ramírez, un joven profesor español de literatura que, cansado de la España de principios del siglo XXI, decide abandonar lo que entonces parecía el estado del bienestar para conocer el del malestar, y consigue trabajo en una elitista universidad mexicana situada en Cholula, la ciudad viva más antigua de América, considerada...
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Crown Colony novels volume 6
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"The Allies have defeated Germany in Europe, but Japan refuses to surrender the East. In Singapore, amid rumours the Japanese occupiers are preparing to wipe out the population of the island rather than surrender, a young aide is found murdered beneath the termite mushroom tree in Hideki Tagawa's garden and his plans for a massive poison gas bomb are missing. To prevent any more destruction it falls to Su Lin to track down the real killer with the...
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"She thinks he's either a stalker, a nutcase, or a harmlessly eccentric Oxford professor. He thinks she's the long-lost descendant of Henry VIII's last Queen, Katherine Parr. Amy is living a cautious life as a London private banker to wealthy oil sheikhs, but her quiet solitude is upended by the sudden appearance of two people: a half-sister who is virtually a stranger to her, and Oxford don Leo. Both need something from Amy, who has been emotionally...
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Naughty teachers volume Volume 3
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New girl in school... College senior Nikki Dayton never had it easy, but she' determined to overcome her embarrassing origins and succeed as a teacher. She's on the brink o f achieving her dream with her first student teaching assignment. But she never expected a handsome guy from her college campus to turn up as a student in her high school class. Hot student body... High school senior Isaach Madison has been pretty lucky in life. Although held...
575) The last trial
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McMurtrie & Drake investigations volume 3
McMurtrie and Drake investigations volume 3
McMurtie and Drake legal thrillers volume 3
McMurtrie and Drake investigations volume 3
McMurtie and Drake legal thrillers volume 3
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McMurtrie's old nemesis, Jack Willistone, is found dead on the banks of the Black Warrior River. Willistone had his share of enemies, but all evidence points to a forgotten, broken woman as the killer. At the urging of the suspect's desperate fourteen-year-old daughter, McMurtrie agrees to take the case. But as seasoned as McMurtrie is, even he isn't prepared for how personal and dangerous this case is going to get. With the trial drawing near and...
576) The lost theory
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Sean McQueen is a staid, middle-aged NYU literature professor leading an uneventful life, until he receives a cryptic letter from his intellectually and poetically gifted best friend, Dylan Byrne. Following years of extensive research, Dylan claims that he has discovered "the theory of everything": a revelation that promises to alter man's view of existence by reconciling science with spirituality. The two men arrange a meeting to discuss the paradigm-shifting...
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Finding my girl / Loving Talia is not a novel, a novella, or even a typical short story. It is a companion booklet to the full-length contemporary romance novel, Love Like Ours, featuring Talia Dalton and Derek Grant. In Love Like Ours, one of the many ways Derek shows his love for Talia is through cute and loving sketches depicting their lives as they came together. Finding My Girl / Loving Talia is a collection of those images, along with a couple...
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Retired from the CIA and now a professor at Georgetown University, Webb's life is finally his own--until he becomes the target of an assassin and is framed for the murder of his two closest associates. Fighting for his life against unseen assailants, the Bourne identity asserts itself, leaving Jason Bourne in control. Barely a half-step ahead of his nemesis and the CIA, who believes he has gone rogue, Bourne finds himself a pawn in a larger, far deadlier...
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Dwadzieścia dni eterycznej, chwytającej za serce miłości. Dwadzieścia dni otulonych zapachem deszczu i muzyką płynącą spod palców niewidomej dziewczyny. W czasach, kiedy świat podzielony był żelazną kurtyną, życie na krótką chwilę splotło ze sobą los dziewczyny z Polski i chłopaka z Ameryki. Herakles Papadopoulos, uwielbiany przez studentów charyzmatyczny profesor Uniwersytetu Harvarda, miał oficjalną przesźość, którą...
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"When FBI agents barge into Sidney Cranmer's home accusing him of a heinous crime, the respected literature professor's life becomes a nightmare. Cranmer insists the illicit material found by the agents isn't his, but the charge against him appears airtight, and his academic specialty--the life and work of controversial author Lewis Carroll, creator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--convinces investigators he's lying. Presiding over the case against...
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