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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in themirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them.Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded...
Author
Series
Outline volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
"A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking--about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives. Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during...
3) Transit
Author
Series
Outline volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of 2015 In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has,...
4) Olive, again
Author
Series
Olive novels volume 2
Description
Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to accept him, experiences loss and loneliness, witnesses the triumphs and heartbreaks of her friends and neighbours in the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine - and, finally, opens herself to new lessons about life.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
A boy tries to convince his teacher that the reason he is late for school is that, over and over, he had to undo the damage being caused by the wind, from tearing laundry off the line to blowing away street signs.
7) Six years
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Description
Harboring an enduring love for Natalie six years after her marriage to another man, Jake Sanders learns of his rival's death and attends the funeral only to discover that Natalie is not the woman she seemed to be, a situation that compels a determined search for answers.
Author
Series
Princess Posey books volume 5
Description
Because Posey does not follow the rules when she takes her new toy to school, Miss Lee locks Poinky in the consequences drawer until Friday.
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
It's 1942, and the residents of the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, have been rattled down to their worn, rationed shoes. For young teacher Charlie Carr, life and love aren't going exactly as planned--her head dictates loyalty to the handsome corpsman, Hugh, but whenever she thinks of her best friend's beau, Will, her heart does the Jersey Bounce. Charlie is doubly troubled by the disappearance of beloved schoolmistress Miss Dimple Kilpatrick one...
Author
Series
Princess Posey books volume 4
Description
First-grader Posey and her friends are excited about Halloween, but also a little nervous about trick-or-treating and eating Miss Lee's monster stew.
13) The midcoast
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Recently returned to a tourist haven on the coast of Maine, Andrew, a high school English teacher, is envious of his former friend Ed Thatch’s extravagant new lifestyle until he stumbles upon the truth, finding his envy turning to horror as the true story of the Thatches begins.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
The students of Diffendoofer School celebrate their unusual teachers and curriculum, including Miss Fribble who teaches laughing, Miss Bonkers who teaches frogs to dance, and Mr. Katz who builds robotic rats.
17) Creep
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 357 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Attempting to end her affair with graduate student Ethan Wolfe, Professor Sheila Tao is horrified to discover Ethan's mental instability, a situation that is complicated by his knowledge of compromising information about her personal life.
Author
Series
Captain Awesome volume 16
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
When a sinister substitute teacher takes over their class, it is up to Eugene and the rest of the Sunnyview Superhero Squad to find Ms. Beasley and foil the sub's plot.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Ivan is a tightly wound philosophy professor whose reverence for logic and order governs not only his academic interests, but also his closest relationships. His wife, Prue, is quite the opposite: a pioneer in the emerging field of biolinguistics, she is young and beautiful, full of life and feeling. Thus far, they have managed to weather their differences. But lately, an odd distance has settled in between them. Might it have something to do with...
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