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2) The midcoast
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Pub. Date
2022.
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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.
4) Final exam
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Filling in for a resident director who has disappeared under suspicious circumstances, college professor Alison Bergeron and her boyfriend, Detective Bobby Crawford, discover that the unwanted assignment can only be ended if they find the missing man.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
404 pages
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Charles Morrow, a high school English teacher who finds it difficult to connect with his autistic son, his college-bound daughter, or his ex-wife, begins to rise out of the rut his life has fallen into with the help of an art student and an Italian-speaking nun.
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Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2005
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viii, 279 p. ; 22 cm.
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The Brontë Project is an irreverent and comic look at love, loss, literature, pop culture, Hollywood, and the mysterious biographical similarities between Charlotte Brontë and Princess Diana. It's a delightful novel about finding one's way in the all-too-real world of love.
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Outline volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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"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...
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
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Katya, a rising ballerina, and Sasha, a graduate student, are young and in love when an unexpected tragedy befalls their native Kiev. Years later, after the couple has safely emigrated to America the consequences of this incident cause their son, Yuri, to be born with a rare health condition that isolates him from other children. Maggie, a passionate and dedicated teacher agrees to tutor Yuri at his home, even though she is haunted by her own painful...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Severely dyslexic and wanting to know more, he took it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford's...
11) Transit
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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,...
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books4pocket
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
510 pages ; 19 cm.
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Un oscuro secreto familiar hizo que Sarah se marchara de Oxford a los dieciocho años. En su huida a Brasil dejó atrás una vida. Pero cinco años después, tras la muerte de su padre, se ve obligada a regresar. Quiere ver a su abuela Sylvia, la mujer que la crio de niña y que ahora sufre Alzheimer. Sarah cree que estará solo unos días, pero cuando va a la Universidad donde su padre era profesor de química descubre que él se ha pasado los últimos...
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Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
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6 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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-- Crazy Rich AsiansAvaEnter EdithExciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. In stylish, uncluttered prose, Naoise Dolan dissects the personal and financial transactions that make up a life—and announces herself as a singular new voice.
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