03491cam a2200361 4500 564106579 TxAuBib 20220627120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780061839917 0061839914 B000W5MIA8 Amazon 3c68bb28-5a14-4575-9b9a-97e1fa955a63 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 141602 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Harris, Joanne. Gentlemen and Players [Libby] : A Novel. HarperCollins, 2009. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 472kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:The New York Times bestselling author takes a riveting new direction with this richly textured, multi-layered novel of friendship, murder, revenge, and class conflict set in an upper-crust English school—as enthralling and haunting as Ian McKewan's Atonement and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley Audere, agere, auferre. To dare, to strive, to conquer. For generations, elite young men have attended St. Oswald's School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric classics teacher who has been a revered fixture for more than 30 years. But this year, things are different. Suits, paperwork, and Information Technology rule the world, and Straitley is reluctantly contemplating retirement. He is joined in this, his 99th, term by five new faculty members, including one who—unknown to Straitley and everyone else—holds intimate and dangerous knowledge of St. Ozzie's ways and secrets, it's comforts and conceits. Harboring dark ties to the school's past, this young teacher has arrived with one terrible goal: Destroy St. Oswald's. As the new term gets underway, a number of incidents befall students and faculty alike. Beginning as small annoyances—a lost pen, a misplaced coffee mug—they soon escalate to the life threatening. With the school unraveling, only Straitley stands in the way of St. Ozzie's ruin. But the old man faces a formidable opponent—a master player with a strategy that has been meticulously planned to the final move. A harrowing tale of cat and mouse told in alternating voices, this riveting, hypnotically atmospheric novel showcases Joanne Harris's astonishing storytelling talent as never before.. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-26 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/3C6/8BB/28/GentlemenandPlayers9780061497339.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3C68BB28-5A14-4575-9B9A-97E1FA955A63&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/3C6/8BB/28/GentlemenandPlayers9780061497339.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3C68BB28-5A14-4575-9B9A-97E1FA955A63&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/3C6/8BB/28/GentlemenandPlayers9780061497339.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3C68BB28-5A14-4575-9B9A-97E1FA955A63&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)