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Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change rather than a War on Terror. For twenty years, Democrats have controlled all three branches of government, enacting carbon-cutting schemes that never made it to a vote in our world. Green infrastructure projects have transformed U.S. cities into lush paradises (for the wealthy, white neighborhoods, at least), and the Bureau of Carbon Regulation levies...
Publisher
Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Richard, recently unemployed, decides to return to his first love, teaching. When he finds a job as an inner-city schoolteacher teaching fourth grade, he discovers a way to reach out to his skeptical students through the game of chess.
43) The Parliament
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2024.
Language
English
Description
Madigan Purdy is stuck in her home town library. When tens of thousands of owls descend on the building, rending and tearing at anyone foolish enough to step outside, Mad is tasked with keeping her students safe, and distracted, while they seek a solution to their dilemma. Perhaps they’ll find the inspiration they seek in her favorite childhood book, The Silent Queen…With food and fresh water in low supply, the denizens of the library will have...
Publisher
Edify Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the award winning author Janette Oke (the Loves Comes Softly Series) comes more heartwarming and romantic adventures in the When Calls the Heart Year 10 edition., The journey continues with new stories of love, hope, courage, and faith on the Canadian frontier. Following the life of beloved school teacher Elizabeth Thatcher as well as the many citizens of Hope Valley, in a town that has become a symbol of the love and support the residents...
45) The underhanded
Author
Publisher
Oceanview publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Europe's last line of defense against neofascism--a history professor? Professor William Dresden has found solitude in the south of France to grapple with his troubled past--a neglected upbringing, failed romances, the recent demolition of his life's work in academia, and even witnessing genocide, among other secrets. But he soon learns that he has much larger problems when an adrift MI6 officer, Adeline Parker, calls and insists on a meeting, revealing...
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
Series
Peach and Plum volume 2
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
Series
Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Emily Leland sheds no tears when her abusive husband is killed in a bar fight, but she arrives back home in Sweetwater Crossing to discover her father has died under mysterious circumstances. Then the house where the new schoolteacher and his son are supposed to board burns, leaving them homeless. When Emily proposes turning the family home into a boardinghouse, her sister is so incensed that she leaves town. Her family name sullied by controversy,...