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Relocating to a family farm in Connecticut after surviving the Columbine school shootings, Caelum and Maureen discover a cache of family memorabilia dating back five generations, which reveals to Caelum unexpected truths about painful past events.

"Tom Hazard ... may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries ... Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher ... Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories...

When a young art teacher moves to sultry Savannah to manage an art gallery for the summer, she finds far more than she anticipated as two handsome brothers vie for her attention.

Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks -- ''a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms and legs should have been. Terror rushes through Nora's body -- the kind of raw terror you feel when...

While writing a biography of his famous namesake, Bill Lewis, a high-school history teacher, nearly loses himself in his attempts to understand one of the great untold stories in American history the adventures and subsequent suicide of Meriwether Lewis. Even as he struggles to illuminate that strange and exuberant time and falls under the spell of the elusively seductive persona of Capt. Lewis, Bill finds himself fighting his own personal crisis,...

Set in Denver, the separate lives of a school teacher, a pregnant teenage girl, and two elderly bachelors become one small community.

Natalie Taylor has a charmed life. Surrounded by her large, close-knit family, she enjoys her meaningful job as a high school English teacher, cherrishes being married to her college sweetheart and is ecstatic about their baby on the way. Then her husband dies in a freak accident and, in an instant, life as she has known it, is over.

A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.

The peaceful town of Lake Emily will never be the same when Trudy Ploog comes to stay.

An insightful account of a first-year teacher's journey. Northeast High is Philadelphia's largest high school, with 3600 students. Danza reveals just how hard it is to keep today's technologically savvy-- and often alienated-- students engaged, how impressively committed most teachers are, and the outsized role counseling plays in a teacher's day, given the psychological burdens many students carry.