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Author
Series
Vega family love stories volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Santiago "Saint" Vega and Lola Leon were high school sweethearts--in secret, that is--but their different backgrounds, with the Vega family a pillar of Humboldt Park and Lola's father engaged in less-than-legal activities, made it tough for them to envision a future together. They both left town after high school, Saint enlisting in the military and Lola cutting ties with her family for her own safety, and the former sweethearts haven't crossed paths...
Author
Series
Professor Sally Good volume 3
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Fuzion Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
""Before my grandmother, there was Anna." So begins the true story of a family secret, a trunkful of hidden letters, and a love story buried for almost a century. In 1894 Roy and Anna graduated from high school and began writing hundreds of love letters to each other until 1898, when Anna died, suddenly and tragically. Roy was devastated. Even after he married, he grieved every year on the anniversary of Anna's death. The letters lay hidden for decades...
Author
Series
School by the sea volume 4
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
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 you...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences--in this provocative novel. What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want? It starts with this simple writing prompt from Alex Witt, Stonebridge Academy's new creative writing teacher. When the students' answers raise disturbing questions of their own, Ms. Witt knows there's more going on the school than the faculty wants to see. She soon learns about...
Author
Series
Women who dare volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Valinda Lacy's mission is to help the newly emancipated survive and flourish in post-Civil War New Orleans. When thugs destroy her school and target her, she runs for her life--into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. An architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake admires Valinda's determination but when her father demands she return home to marry another man, her daring rebellion draws Drake into an irresistible intrigue.
88) Christy
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains. There she came to know and love the wild mountain people with their fierce pride, dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. Christy found her faith severely challenged in these primitive surroundings; and confronted with two young men of unique strength and needs, she found her own growing yearnings...
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
His second-chance family: When Julia Blair returns to her hometown of Cannon Beach she's divorced and with two children, and ready to start over again. But is it good or bad luck when she immediately runs into her sixteen year old crush, Will Garrett who looks just as battered and bruised by life so far as she is?
A soldier's secret: To find out who was claiming ownership of the only place he'd ever called home, Harry Maxwell knew he'd have to practice...
92) Miss Meadows
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgiveable.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In the final season of this popular series, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Laura Linney reprises her role as Cathy Jamison, who comes to a realization about her battle with skin cancer. Deciding to quit chemotherapy, Cathy finds peace and resolution with her husband, son and even her estranged father. With four one-hour episodes, Cathy's journey is filled with laughter, tears and poignancy- a fitting farewell to this acclaimed series.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this uproarious exploration of the joys of reading, a long-time teacher, lifelong reader and The New Yorker contributor shares surprising stories from her life and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students and shows us how literature can transform us for the better.
95) Twenty-four eyes
Series
Criterion collection volume 442
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
日本語
Description
Follows a schoolteacher in rural Japan as she strives to imbue her pupils with optimism, morality, and pacifist ideals through decades of war and political strife.
Author
Series
Texas dreams volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Harriet Kirk is certain that becoming Ladreville's schoolteacher is just what she needs--a chance to put the past behind her and give her younger siblings a brighter tomorrow. What she didn't count on was the presence of handsome former Texas Ranger Lawrence Wood--or the way he slowly but surely claims her fragile heart. But can Harriet and Lawrence ever truly put the past behind them in order to find happiness?
Author
Series
Little school by the sea volume 3
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Beloved high school teacher Maggie Adair had been comfortably, if somewhat ambivalently, engaged to her dependable long-distance boyfriend Stan. But in the heat of summer, Maggie's attraction to her colleague David McDonald has caught fire. Now both are facing an uncertain future as they try to figure out how to stay committed to their careers--and each other. Meanwhile, the girls of Downey House--mercurial Fliss, glamorous Alice, and shy, hard-working...
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a war that will never end. But even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help. An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice, has been missing -- and is later found murdered. Miss Dimple and her fellow teachers-turned-sleuths are determined to find the killer. Although Prentice had recently...
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