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Description
A vibrant and perceptive novel about a father's plot to win back his children's inheritance. Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's exasperated his much-younger girlfriend, and his kids won't speak to him. And then there's the money--the small fortune his late wife Francine kept secret, which she bequeathed directly to his children. Those children are Ethan, an anxious recluse living...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius finds a book by Portuguese poet and doctor Amadeu de Prado and his life is irrevocably changed. Determined to learn more about the author, Gregorius boards the night train to Lisbon and begins to piece together an epic story of oppression and revolution, loyalty and betrayal, love and jealousy, played out against the backdrop of a brutal fascist dictatorship. In his exploration of Amadeu de Prado's life, Gregorius finds...
324) A narrow door
Author
Series
Malbry volume 4
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022
Description
It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered. Rebecca will bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before.
325) Heartland skies
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Jayne Morgan feels betrayed when her fiancé suddenly dumps her for his high school sweetheart just weeks before the wedding. She'd love to leave his hometown of Paradise, Oregon, but she's signed a teaching contract and the kids in her classroom need her. Then Harris McAllister comes along. Jayne certainly has a lot to learn about love. But Harris has a lot to learn about tolerance. Maybe, just maybe they can help each other along."--
326) When calls the heart
Publisher
Frontier Productions
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher trades high society life for a classroom on the prairie, determined to prove she is brave enough to live on her own. She learns through her aunt's secret diary that she had been a pioneer woman herself, and uses it as a guide to embark on her own adventures.
328) God's country
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When a college professor in the remote mountains of the American West confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.
329) Dominance
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Attending a controversial literary mystery night class taught by a professor who has been convicted of murder, Alex Shipley unravels an elaborate literary hoax that acquits the teacher, only for her to be targeted years later by a determined killer.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt attempts to thwart his parents' plan to have him skip eighth grade, but he has bigger problems when his friends disapprove of his new list and Mrs. "Fierce" Pierce threatens to keep him from the Invention Convention.
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Series
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The night sky is forever changed when the moon is blasted into a permanent crescent. Confronting the governments of the world, a yellow tentacled monster boasts that it was the one responsible for the catastrophe and makes a peculiar demand: a teaching position at the prestigious Kunugigaoka Junior High School. Although the fate of the world now rests on their shoulders, the class has more personal issues to deal with. They don't believe themselves...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Charlotte McGanley knows happiness. Just ask anyone who's read Perfect Happiness, her bestselling book about how she, a busy mother and professor, used her no-nonsense positive psychology research to brighten her own life. She always pictured her career beginning and ending in the halls of academia, but now she's become a bit of a self-help guru. No one is more surprised by this than Charlotte herself, who has secretly never been more miserable....
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The adventures of Tres Navarre, P.I. and Ph.D., continue to attract fans who love their spicy humor and suspense. When two English professors are killed in quick succession at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Tres is asked to finish teaching the semester's literature classes. All he has to do is keep his investigation of the murders quiet-and stay alive long enough to grade the final essays.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
"Ms. Graham's fifth-grade class wants to promote change in the world; but when eight of them take an assignment too far, they must take responsibility for their actions and unite for a cause they all believe in"--
338) Where trust lies
Author
Series
Return to the Canadian West volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"After teaching in a 1920s mining town in western Canada, Beth Thatcher no longer feels at home among her wealthy family in the East, and her heart is torn between two very different worlds"--Provided by publisher.
339) Collector of secrets
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"American twenty-something Max Travers is an English teacher in Japan. He has a beautiful girlfriend, a mysterious and powerful boss, and lives in a city teeming with rich culture and history. But Max wants out. He came to Japan to find a new calling, but finds that this new life isn't everything he hoped it would be. His manipulative boss, Yoko, is trying to swindle the unsuspecting parents of his students and is using his golden-boy American face...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
This stunning story of the author's struggle to break free of her strict Rastafarian upbringing ruled by a father whose rigid beliefs, rage and paranoia led to violence shows how found her own power and provides a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we know little about.
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