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From an award-winning author, this provocative novel tells an emotionally gripping story about friendship, family, and transgender awakening in a working-class American town.

"Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown. How can you follow your heart when it seems to be taking...

When Principal Stokers decides Ella Mentry School should have a vegetable garden and brings in a really, really weird gardening instructor, A. J. and his friends help out and hilarious hijinks ensue when something — or someone — takes a bite out of their produce.

"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...

"Helen Smit believed she was called by God to become a teacher. Little does she know that her care for kids will take a drastic turn for survival when the Germans occupy Amsterdam and Jewish children and parents begin to be deported. Now all she can think of is helping all the kids escape before it's too late. Erik Misman's newfound love for Helen is tested when he joins a plot to help move Jewish children to a safe place in the countryside. If danger...

"The last thing Nick expects to find when he's out chasing poachers is love. When Libby takes a new job teaching elementary school, she meets a game warden she's drawn to. But Libby and Nick both lack self-confidence and battle memories of difficult relationships in the past. A confrontation with her former fiancé and a traumatic hunting accident tear at Libby. When they agree to put their trust in God, their relationship begins to flourish and they...

"A faux summer fling seemed like the perfect solution... until they start falling in love for real. Teacher Stella Marshall's summer break has just began, but the gossip is already sizzling: Luke Keegan's back in town! Stella's high school crush is all grown up and smolderingly sexy. She might even consider a fling with the former Navy SEAL, if she hadn't already sworn off all romantic entanglements. But there isn't a single thing she can do to stop...

When a prominent professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. Until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor's vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor's frozen and mutilated body. When he attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents, extreme environmentalists, and...

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,...

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...