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Author
Series
Publisher
Crossing Press
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
A gripping novel of politics, academia, and murder Assistant professor Nan Weaver, an outspoken feminist, is working toward tenure at Berkeley. Nan's blue-collar family left her with a legacy of endurance and hard work, and she is dedicated to her ideals and her students. But Nan's bold campaign against on-campus sexual harassment may be putting her career prospects in jeopardy. When an infamously chauvinistic male English professor turns up dead...
Author
Series
Peach and Plum volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Peach and Plum get separated by a new substitute teacher with new rules"--
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In a world that screams Be seen! Be known! and often measures value by likes and shares and follows, it's easy to feel invisible, unheard, unloved. But God's Word offers a powerful and freeing counter narrative: true treasure is actually found in the ""hidden"" life of Christ.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once--a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover--Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in surprising...
Author
Series
Love's a mystery volume 4
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1945... When Iris Pitts takes a job teaching in the one-room schoolhouse in Nameless, Tennessee, she hopes her year of despair will finally end. She has no idea if her soldier boyfriend, Will McCrae, was killed, captured, or just broke up with her without a word. But then Will shows up in town, and a series of thefts occur, neither Will nor Iris knows if their rekindled relationship can survive. As Iris scrambles to find the thief--while reassuring...
Author
Series
Love's a mystery in volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts Book & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1820, Hannie Van Brunt has resigned herself to the fact that she will likely never marry. But when new schoolmaster Gideon Webb comes to Sleepy Hollow, Hannie wonders if her life might turn out differently after all. Caught up in solving the mystery of what really happened to Ichabod Crane so long ago, Hannie and Gideon soon find themselves caught up in another mystery altogether - a growing love for each other! Today, disenchanted...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Though the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher--until Gordon Covington shows up. No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in Eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Life
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Hold On, But Don't Hold Still, the emotionally charged and eye-opening account of a mother who navigates the cacophony of best practices and urgent advice from parenting authorities in search of a way to support her teen as he maps his own path to mental health"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Did you know that John Lennon's mom called him "Stinker" because he farted so much? Or that Paul McCartney liked playing guitar in the bathroom? Bet you didn't know that George Harrison once had his friend's parent sign his report card, or that Ringo Starr's grandma thought he was possessed by witches! Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the rock stars, from their childhoods and early days as musicians...