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"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two...

New England art history professor Sweeney St. George returns for her second brush with death (after the Agatha Award finalist O' Artful Death) as she investigates the death of a student, a descendant of a prominent family and collector of 19th-century mourning jewelry.

Alison Bergeron, on her way to meet her boyfriend's parents for the first time, stops in a coffee shop where an argument between Carter Wilmott, a local blogger, and George Miller, head of the town's public works, spirals out of control, ending with Carter's death, and Alison becomes more involved than she expected when complications arise and George's wife asks her to help clear his name.

English professor Alison Bergeron is off the hook for murder but finds herself in another sticky situation when her ex turns up dead and she is pulled into the murder investigation, which puts her onto a dangerous mob boss's hit list.

English professor Alison Bergeron asks her boyfriend, NYPD detective Bobby Crawford, to help her find a friend's missing nephew, and when the boy's body is pulled from the river, Alison and Bobby do not agree with the official ruling that his death was an accident and set out to uncover the truth.

Antique print dealer Maggie Summer is teaching a college course on "Myths in American Culture," using prints by Currier and Ives and other nineteenth century artists to illustrate her points. As a faculty advisor, she's also dealing with the problems of students who are single parents: problems that turn dangerous when a young mother is poisoned, and events twist Maggie's own thoughts about motherhood. She suspects a sinister connection between the...

"From NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly comes a heart-pounding story about fear, family secrets, and one woman's hunt for answers about the murder of her parents. Caroline Cashion, a professor of French literature at Georgetown University, is stunned when an MRI reveals that she has a bullet lodged near the base of her skull. It makes no sense: she has never been shot. She has no entry wound. No scar. When she confronts her parents, they initially...

"She's an antique print dealer, a college professor, and now...a parent? Maggie Summer is considering adopting a child from the New Jersey agency Our World, Our Children, and she has happily agreed to stage a benefit antiques show on their behalf. With her dealer friends, her college, and her lover, Will Brewer, all donating their time and support, everything is falling into place. But someone is harboring a vicious grudge against Our World, Our Children....

"An English professor struggling for tenure discovers that her ex-fiance has just become the president of her college--and her new boss--in this whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic Persuasion. Anne Corey is about to get schooled. An English professor in California, she's determined to score a position on the coveted tenure track at her college. All she's got to do is get a book deal, snag a promotion, and boom! She's in. But then...