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English
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Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first theat rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life.
3) The teacher
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that,she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's...
4) Matilda
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Matilda, a brilliant, sensitive little girl, uses her talents and ingenuity to seek revenge on her crooked father, lazy mother, and the terrifying Miss Trunchbull, her wicked headmistress, and save her beloved teacher, Miss Honey.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and...
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Series
Miss Malarkey volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A first-grade boy is shocked, then pleased, when he discovers that his teacher has a life away from school.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A celebration of the ways in which teachers change the world, from encouraging creativity, to making students laugh, to helping them form friendships, always wanting everyone to succeed and making the classroom a great place to be.
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Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
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For years Birdy Stone was a bored schoolteacher in New Mexico, living off pot and novels. One day a woman asks her help in writing a book about two unexplained deaths in her family. As Birdy turns sleuth, she starts living for the first time. By the author of Talking in Bed.
11) The bracelet
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Publisher
Gibbs Smith Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Miss Thompson has a change of heart about a student after he gives a her a gift that belonged to his deceased mother.
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
From Jean Reynolds Page-the critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Before and After and one of the most compelling voices in contemporary women's fiction-comes a dazzling novel of loss and redemption, of relationships that damage and those that heal. Thirty-nine and pregnant by a man she's decided to leave behind in California, Jules' life is changing. Always the protected daughter, she must now relinquish that role and prepare to be a mother...
16) The crazed
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Assigned to care for his fiancée's father, Professor Yang, after he suffers a stroke, Jian Wan is disturbed when the professor begins to rave against his family and colleagues, and takes great risks to uncover the truth.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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English teacher Lena Wright, a spoken-word poet, can never seem to truly connect with her students. Hernan D. Hernandez is confident in front of his biology classes, but tongue-tied around the woman he most wants to impress. Down the hall, math teacher Maybelline Galang focuses on the numbers as she struggles to parent her daughter, while Coach Ray hustles his troubled football team toward another winning season. Recording it all is idealistic second-year...
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English
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Shelley Browning, deeply hurt by a disastrous marriage, is determined to get the college degree she abandoned to wed a young doctor. She's back at an Oklahoma uiversity at age twenty-six,a little older and a lot wiser. Yet, despite her growing self-awareness, Shelley can't explain why she takes a class in government taught by Grant Chapman - except that she feels compelled to see him again. Ten years ago Grant was the best-looking teacher in her high...
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English
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A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we love00As a member of the Honor Society at Bailey Academy, one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the country, Ben falls under the tutelage of Pierre LaVerdere, a brilliant, enigmatic teacher who instructs his charges on how to discuss current events, how to think about art and literature,...
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English
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"2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain...