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"From the acclaimed author of How to Be Eaten, a fresh take on the campus novel that follows an adjunct professor gigging her way through academia's poor job market when she crosses paths with her old PhD adviser whose new novel might be about her. Meet Sam, an adjunct professor at a public university in Baltimore who takes a last-minute gig at the private liberal arts college down the road. Overworked and underpaid, her life is a blur of back-to-back...

Rep and Melissa Pennyworth combine their skills to stay above the fray on two separate cases--one involving a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee frat boy Rep thinks is innocent of a piracy accusation, and another involving a spat between Melissa's colleagues that escalates into murder.

"A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones , the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi, into John Woman, an unconventional history professor while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows"-- Provided by publisher. At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black...