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The Northbury Papers

Author : Joanne Dobson
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307761452
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Northbury Papers written by Joanne Dobson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching American women's literature at New England's prestigious Enfield College has shown Karen Pelletier just how cutthroat the world of academe can be. But nothing in her tenure has prepared her for the perils to come, as this bastion of higher learning throws open its doors to a cleverly calculating killer. A battered copy of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre leads Professor Karen Pelletier to the long-forgotten novels of an obscure writer named Serena Northbury. When she decides to pen the author's biography, she sets off a raging controversy. Everyone, from her esteemed colleagues to her tyrannical department head, regards Northbury's nineteenth-century writings as trash. But when the intrepid researcher stumbles upon a treasure trove of Northbury's papers--including what looks very much like an unpublished novel--Karen knows she cannot quit, for what could be more thrilling? Unfortunately, someone takes exception to Karen's penchant for digging up the past. Before long, she is the unlikely suspect in a homicide--and the target of an erudite killer who is poised to kill again. From the Paperback edition.

Quieter than Sleep

Author : Joanne Dobson
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307569969
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Quieter than Sleep written by Joanne Dobson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Pelletier abandoned her life in New York for a professorship at Massachusetts's elite Enfield College. But she quickly learns that New England is not the peaceful enclave she had imagined--and that not even the privileged world of academia is immune to murder.... Professor Karen Pelletier's prime literary passion is poet Emily Dickinson--a passion she shares with her hotshot colleague Randy Astin-Berger. Heir apparent to the head of Enfield's English department, the pompous Randy is the campus Casanova. That is, he was--until he was found strangled with his own flashy necktie. The last person to see Randy alive--and the first to find him dead--Karen knows she must solve the case before she becomes the prime suspect. But to do that, she must first discover the truth behind Randy's final Dickinsonian discovery--a literary bombshell that may well have been to die for.... From the Paperback edition.

Great Women Mystery Writers

Author : Elizabeth A. Blakesley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313049068
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Great Women Mystery Writers written by Elizabeth A. Blakesley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysteries are among the most popular books today, and women continue to be among the most creative and widely read mystery writers. This book includes alphabetically arranged entries on 90 women mystery writers. Many of the writers discussed were not even writing when the first edition of this book was published in 1994, while others have written numerous works since then. Writers were selected based on their status as award winners, their commercial success, and their critical acclaim. Each entry provides biographical information, a discussion of major works and themes, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with appendices and a selected, general bibliography. Public library patrons will value this guide to their favorite authors, while students will turn to it when writing reports.

Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised)

Author : Colleen Barnett
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615950109
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised) written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.

The Raven and the Nightingale

Author : Joanne Dobson
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307796914
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Raven and the Nightingale written by Joanne Dobson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexpected bequest sends waves of violence through the placid groves of academe in Joanne Dobson's third mystery to feature Professor Karen Pelletier. Still untenured, and therefore on shaky academic ground, feisty young Enfield College professor Pelletier finds herself going head-to-head with the resident Edgar Allan Poe expert, Elliot Corbin, an academic windbag of monumental proportions who is lobbying to be appointed to the much-coveted and recently vacated Palaver Chair. So when Karen receives a serendipitous bonanza in the form of never-before-seen manuscripts and journals by the nineteenth-century poet Emmeline Foster, who is rumored to have killed herself for the love of Poe, Corbin is predictably put out. Subsequently, the corrosive Corbin is stabbed to death in his home on Thanksgiving Day. Karen has an airtight alibi, but other suspects abound--from the head of the women's studies program, who also pines for the Palaver Chair; to Visiting Poet Jane Birdwort, whose history with Corbin turns out to be far longer (and closer) than anyone had known; to the perpetually disgruntled department secretary; to a young female adjunct professor whose unbridled ambition will not be denied. Then Karen's office is ransacked, and a number of the Emmeline Foster journals and poems are stolen, so it looks more and more as if Corbin's death may be inextricably entwined with the muse of his life--poet of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. The undeniably attractive Lieutenant Piotrowski is called in, and, as in the past, he solicits Karen's help, involving her once more in the thankless task of investigating her not-always-so-collegial colleagues. As she did in her first two widely acclaimed novels, Joanne Dobson uses her savvy insider's knowledge of academic politics and her considerable talent for complex plotting to produce a witty and eminently satisfying entertainment.

A Game of Thrones

Author : George R. R. Martin
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553897845
Total Pages : 835 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book A Game of Thrones written by George R. R. Martin and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse—unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances. Now Robert is riding north to Winterfell, bringing his queen, the lovely but cold Cersei, his son, the cruel, vainglorious Prince Joffrey, and the queen’s brothers Jaime and Tyrion of the powerful and wealthy House Lannister—the first a swordsman without equal, the second a dwarf whose stunted stature belies a brilliant mind. All are heading for Winterfell and a fateful encounter that will change the course of kingdoms. Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, Prince Viserys, heir of the fallen House Targaryen, which once ruled all of Westeros, schemes to reclaim the throne with an army of barbarian Dothraki—whose loyalty he will purchase in the only coin left to him: his beautiful yet innocent sister, Daenerys.

Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia

Author : Emily Toth
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208129
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia written by Emily Toth and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ms. Mentor, that uniquely brilliant and irascible intellectual, is your all-knowing guide through the jungle that is academia today. In the last decade Ms. Mentor's mailbox has been filled to overflowing with thousands of plaintive epistles, rants, and gossipy screeds. A mere fraction has appeared in her celebrated monthly online and print Q&A columns for the Chronicle of Higher Education; her readers' colorful and rebellious ripostes have gone unpublished—until now. Hearing the call for a follow-up to the wildly successful Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia, Ms. Mentor now broadens her counsel to include academics of the male variety. Ms. Mentor knows all about foraging for jobs, about graduate school stars and serfs, and about mentors and underminers, backbiters and whiners. She answers burning questions: Am I too old, too working class, too perfect, too blonde? When should I reproduce? When do I speak up, laugh, and spill the secrets I've gathered? Do I really have to erase my own blackboard? Does academic sex have to be reptilian? From the ivory tower that affords her an unparalleled view of the academic landscape, Ms. Mentor dispenses her perfect wisdom to the huddled masses of professorial newbies, hardbitten oldies, and anxious midcareerists. She gives etiquette lessons to academic couples and the tough-talking low-down on adjunct positions. She tells you what to wear, how to make yourself popular, and how to decode academic language. She introduces you to characters you must know: Professor Pelvic, Dr. Iron Fist, Mr. Upstart Whelp, Dean Titan, Professor McShameless. In this volume Ms. Mentor once again shares her wide-ranging unexpurgated wisdom, giving tips on bizarre writing rituals, tenure diaries, and time management (Exploding Head Syndrome). She decodes department meetings and teaches you the tricks for getting stellar teaching evaluations. Raw, shocking, precise, clever, absurd—Ms. Mentor has it all.

The Maltese Manuscript

Author : Joanne Dobson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615953140
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The Maltese Manuscript written by Joanne Dobson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dobson's obvious knowledge of, and respect for, mystery and detective fiction is immense. She takes the reader on a glorious tour, describing everything from comic books to anthologies. Even the most moral mystery fans will understand why a person would want to purloin even one or two of these treasures."—Publishers Weekly In classic noir tradition, English Professor Karen Pelletier gains a client when a Rottweiler named Trouble and his famous private-eye-novelist owner walk through her door. The next thing you know, the Enfield library is missing a truckload of its treasures. Then a thief is found dead in the stacks, his neck broken. With a real private eye on the case, the hunt is on—for the manuscript of Hammett's famous novel, The Maltese Falcon; for the missing books; and for potential murder suspects.

The Ethical Detective

Author : Rachel Haliburton
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498536816
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Ethical Detective written by Rachel Haliburton and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective fiction and philosophy¾moral philosophy in particular¾may seem like an odd combination. Working within the framework offered by neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, this book makes the case that moral philosophers ought to take murder mysteries seriously, seeing them as a source of ethical insight, and as a tool that can be used to spark the ethical imagination. Detective fiction is a literary genre that asks readers to consider questions of good and evil, justice and injustice, virtue and vice, and is, consequently, a profoundly and inescapably ethical genre. Moreover, in the figure of the detective, readers are presented with an accessible role model who demonstrates the virtues of honesty, courage, and a commitment to justice that are required by those who want to live well as a virtue ethicist would understand it. This book also offers a critique of contemporary moral philosophy, and considers what features a neo-Aristotelian conception of autonomy might display.

Inventory of Unpublished Material for American Religious History in Protestant Church Archives and Other Repositories

Author : William Henry Allison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventory of Unpublished Material for American Religious History in Protestant Church Archives and Other Repositories written by William Henry Allison and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventories were received from archives of the governing bodies of the various Protestant churches and of their missionary societies and from the libraries of their theological seminaries, colleges, and historical societies.

Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

AZ Murder Goes...Professional

Author : Barbara G Peters
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615951547
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book AZ Murder Goes...Professional written by Barbara G Peters and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-01-31 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow five writers—Joanne Dobson, John Dunning, Nicholas Kilmer, Nancy Pickard, and William G. Tapply—along the professional paths that led to their books and the creation of characters who live on in the mind once the book’s covers are closed.

Cold and Pure and Very Dead

Author : Joanne Dobson
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307768104
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Cold and Pure and Very Dead written by Joanne Dobson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English professor Karen Pelletier is well known for her provocative manner and iconoclastic opinions, so it's no surprise that she perversely cites a commercial novel from the 1950s when asked to named the greatest book of the twentieth century. The only work by Mildred Deakin, who disappeared from public view shortly after its publication, Satan Mills quickly becomes the hottest book around. It's the center of contentious arguments in academic circles, climbs onto The New York Times bestseller list, and receives the coveted honor of being an Oprah Book Club selection. At the height of the frenzy, a reporter who discovers the reclusive author in rural upstate New York is found dead in her driveway. Could Deakin have been so protective of her privacy that she'd shoot someone to protect it? Called in to help with the investigation, Karen learns that the scandalous happenings at the heart of Satan Mills were more autobiographical than its attractive young author wanted anyone to know. The intrepid professor deploys all her literary and investigative skills in an all-out effort to exonerate the embattled older woman and restore her peaceful existence. Detailed with Dobson's lethally witty pen, Karen's latest adventure is at once a deftly told mystery and a delightful debunking of polemical academics and pretentious intellectual windbags. From the Hardcover edition.

Contemporary Authors

Author : Scot Peacock
Publisher : Contemporary Authors New Revis
ISBN 13 : 9780787646134
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Scot Peacock and published by Contemporary Authors New Revis. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions.Call your Sales Rep for details.

Calendar of State Papers

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Calendar of State Papers written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sleuths in Skirts

Author : Frances A. DellaCava
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815338840
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Sleuths in Skirts written by Frances A. DellaCava and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

Death Without Tenure

Author : Joanne Dobson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615950478
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Death Without Tenure written by Joanne Dobson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fans of academic mysteries will savor this one."—Library Journal Karen Pelletier is about to realize her dream. After six years in the English Department at New England's exclusive Enfield College, she is up for a tenured position. But when her rival for the one available tenured spot is found dead from an overdose of Peyote buttons, Karen is first on the list of suspects. Now a homicide cop with a grudge against Lieutenant Charlie Piotrowski, the love of Karen's life, is breathing down her neck. On campus, political passions rage, inflamed by the politically-correct English Department chair and by the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Whiteness Studies. Two of Karen's favorite students are caught up in the furor. Will Karen be able to survive the investigation, protect her students, and find a permanent niche in the world of academe, all without her beloved Charlie, now serving with the National Guard in Iraq?