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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.
2) Daddy's girl
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
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When a riot breaks out in the prison she is visiting, law professor Natalie Greco witnesses the death of a prison guard whose last words reveal a dangerous conspiracy, putting Nat into a situation in which she is targeted by murderers and the police.
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Series
Judy Moody volume 8
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When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
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In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz, a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile, for her advice. These three very different people are...
5) 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.
6) Olive, again
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Series
Olive novels volume 2
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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.
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Prof. Brandt Savage--grandson of the legendary action hero Doc Savage--is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, "Meed," is demanding. She's also his captor. Savage...
Author
Series
Detective Galileo mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 25 cm.
10) 13 1/2
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In present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life until she encounters architect Marshall Marchand, a lifelong bachelor who spends most of his time with his brother Danny. When Polly's two young daughters from her previous marriage are likewise taken with Marshall, she marries him. But then an ominous prediction by a New Orleans tarot card reader proclaims that Polly will murder her husband, and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack's parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy's divorce.
13) Ruby Lee & Me
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When a formerly segregated North Carolina town hires its first African-American teacher in 1969, two girls--one black, one white--confront the prejudice that challenges their friendship. Includes endnote explaining that the roots of the book are in the author's connection to just such a teacher.
Author
Series
Louise the big cheese volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Louise is determined to earn straight A's in second grade, but her teacher, Mrs. Pearl, is known for not giving out that special grade.
Author
Series
My weirdest school volume 3
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Description
With guidance from Miss Brown, a teacher who is an expert on creativity, the third grade class at Ella Mentry School builds a car and a bridge to compete in a Brain Games competition against Dirk School.
16) Elizabeth Finch
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Neil, the narrator, takes Elizabeth Finch's class on Culture and Civilization, taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages; we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this private, withholding yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his family drift from Neil's grasp, Elizabeth's application of her material to the matter of daily living remains important to him, even after her death, in a way that nothing else...
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Series
Publisher
Branches / Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
68 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Eva's teacher, Miss Featherbottom, is getting married, but when her special necklace disappears, Eva and her friends set out to track down the thief and return the necklace before the wedding.
Author
Series
Vine mess volume 1
Description
Returning home to his family's California winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his Ivy League job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is aburst of color in his gray-scale life.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Doug, the husband of the [heir to a historic estate that once housed an arts colony], desperately needs the colony files to get his stalled academic career back on track. But what he discovers when he finally gets his hands on them is more than he bargained for. Doug may never learn the house's secrets, but the reader will, as Makkai leads us on a ... journey into the past of this eccentric family"--
20) The bone house
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Cab Bolton novels volume 1
Description
When 16-year-old Glory, Tresa Fischer's wild-child younger sister, turns up dead on a beach near Mark and Hilary's Florida hotel, Mark becomes the number one murder suspect. Det. Cab Bolton, who isn't one to jump to conclusions, travels from Florida to Wisconsin to unravel Mark--and Glory's--complicated lives.
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