Search Results: Returned 8 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 8
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2005, c2003., Anchor Books Call No: 823 .914 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Von Igelfeld is quite pleased with his role as a visiting scholar at Cambridge, even if his English colleagues can be difficult to comprehend. They frequently speak in metaphors and make peculiar assumptions, saying such odd things as "I take it your journey went well," when that is not the case at all. But von Igelfeld settles in the best he can, and is soon deeply embroiled in some shady political scheming at the university. After returning to the comfort of his perfectly rational Germany, von Igelfeld is invited to Colombia for a special fellowship. But while there, he gets caught up in some decidedly unscupulous behavior.
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2022., Adolescent, Tor Call No: FANTASY F BLA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake's New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six--guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos. Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Society. Two paths lay before them. All must pick a side. Alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and The Society of Alexandrians will be revealed for what it is: a secret society with raw, world-changing power, headed by a man whose plans to change life as we know it are already under way"--Provided by the publisher.
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2011., Viking Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Bethia Mayfield befriends Caleb, the son of a Wampanoag chieftain, as she grows up near Martha's Vineyard in the mid-seventeenth century, and watches as her minister father attempts to convert the Native Americans, but the fates of the children are tied together as Bethia's father encourages the education of Caleb, a privilege Bethia has always wished for, and the two are reunited in Cambridge.
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2012., Penguin Books Call No: Historical FIC Brooks Genre: Historical Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Growing up in the island settlement of Great Harbor, Bethia Mayfield meets a young Native American named Caleb and the two form a strong friendship. Years later, as the ways of Bethia's fellow settlers begin to contrast with those of the native Wampanoag, Caleb enrolls at Harvard while Bethia becomes entangled in his struggle to bridge the cultural and intellectual divides between their people.
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2005, c2003., Anchor Books Call No: 823 .914 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Unnaturally tall, hypersensitive to slights, and oblivious to his own frequent gaucheries, von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he knows is due him. Portuguese Irregular Verbs follows the Professor from a busman's holiday researching old Irish obscenities to a flirtation with a desirable lady dentist.
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2010., Twelve Call No: Mystery FIC MOORE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Literary researcher Harold White, having been inducted in the Baker Street Irregulars, a group of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts, embarks on a search for a missing diary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and investigates the murder of the world's leading Doylean scholar.
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2010., Twelve Call No: Mystery FIC Moore Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shortly after his induction into the Sherlock Holmes society known as the Baker Street Irregulars, Harold White becomes caught up in a startling murder that leads him on a search not only for the killer, but the lost diary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as well.
