"For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why? All she wants is for life to get back to normal, but normal is looking hard to come by. She's thirty-eight and hobbles with a cane. Her first student interaction...

"Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life. Combining...

Eight professors of color discuss the special pressures minority faculty face in majority white institutions. Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty offers everyone in higher education an unprecedented opportunity to see American campuses through the eyes of minority faculty. Across America campus diversity is under attack; affirmative action programs are banned, ethnic studies departments defunded, multicultural scholarship impugned....

Returning home to care for his late brother’s six children, die-hard bachelor and art professor Sullivan Bradshaw is drawn to nanny Rumer Truehart, a free spirit who changes his commitment-phobic mind and challenges everything he ever thought he wanted

The misadventures of an unlikely chairman of the English department at a Pennsylvania university who finds his sense of humor twisted by the absurdity of his situation

A professor is missing from Unseen University, and several ambitious faculty members set forth on a search that will take them to the other side of Discworld where the Last Continent is under construction

New England horticulturist and sleuth Peter Shandy travels to Maine in search of lupines and finds a poisoned dinner guest

Believing he has discovered the burial chamber of a near-mythical Egyptian pharaoh and a mystical double crown, famed archaeologist Porter Stone and his team suffer bizarre accidents that Professor Jeremy Logan is brought in to investigate.

From the author of the international best seller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Arcadia is an astonishing work of imagination. 
In Cold War England, Professor Henry Lytten, having renounced a career in espionage, is writing a fantasy novel that dares to imagine a world less fraught than his own. He finds an unlikely confidante in Rosie, an inquisitive young neighbor who, while chasing after Lytten's cat...

A young English college teacher embarks on a humorous crusade against traditional class structures