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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...
2) 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,...
3) The midcoast
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
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
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xxi, 336 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives readers a stunning personal story of growing up in a family in Iran, moving memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and difficult mother, against the background of Iran during a time of revolution and change.
6) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Appears on list
Description
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...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For generations, Welton Academy students have been groomed to live lives of conformity and tradition, until new professor John Keating inspires them to think for themselves, live life to the fullest, and 'Carpe Diem.' This unconventional approach awakens the spirits of the students, but draws the wrath of a disapproving faculty when an unexpected tragedy strikes the school. Featuring new interview footage with director Peter Weir, Ethan Hawke, Robert...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Ben Jameson begins his teaching career in a small private school in Northern Virginia. He is idealistic, happy to have his first job after graduate school and hoping some day to figure out what he really wants out of life. In the two years he teaches English at Glenn Acres Preparatory School, he discovers what he believes will be his life's work; teaching is what he finally comes to with all his heart. His fiance believes he suffers from a 'Christ...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
347 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils...
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
viii, 279 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
18) Final exam
Author
Series
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Traces the author's experiences as an English teacher to the sons of North Korea's elite during the last six months of Kim Jong Il's reign, an effort complicated by oppressive regime enforcers, propaganda, and evangelical missionaries.
20) Language arts
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
404 pages
Description
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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