The first woman president of an elite progressive college responds to student protests about a popular professor's tenure denial before the group's controversial leader emerges and shocking acts of vandalism begin to destabilize the campus.

"Maggie Martin loves her new job as president of Highpointe College—until she receives a call from librarian Sunday Sloan. Do the dusty shelves of Highpointe’s rare book collection conceal their own deadly secrets? Meanwhile, Josh Newlon, Maggie’s administrative assistant, receives devastating news about his father. It turns out that his adoptive parents haven’t been completely honest with him. As Josh unreels the layers of his past, he meets...

A woman of intellect and ambition describes growing up on an Australian ranch, coping with her father's death and her mother's depression, her intellectual awakening at the university, and her path to becoming Smith College's first woman president

"With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed - and beloved - bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story." "She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by a hunger to know and to understand, boarding a plane that would carry her far from her Australian homeland. As True North begins she lands, appropriately enough, in a hurricane, in New York. And is soon at Harvard,...

A biography of Father Ted Hesburgh, the most influential priest in America, who played important roles in higher education, the Catholic Church, the civil rights movement, national and international politics.