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1) Villette
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Series
Description
Villette, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A frustrated composer comes to realize that his real passion is teaching and that his legacy is not a truly memorable piece of music, but the generations of young people whose lives he affects.
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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...
6) Wonder boys
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During a single weekend, college professor Grady Tripp scrambles to gather together a life that has suddenly reeled out of control. An unfinished novel, a stolen car, a murdered pet and a failing marriage are just a few of the crises piling up.
7) 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.
8) Teachers
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces teachers to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
10) Outline: a novel
Author
Series
Outline volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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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...
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,...
12) Olive, again
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Series
Olive novels volume 2
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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.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
The Woodburys cherish life in the affluent, bucolic suburb of Avalon Hills, Connecticut. George is a beloved science teacher at the local prep school, a hero who once thwarted a gunman, and his wife, Joan, is a hardworking ER nurse. They have brought up their children in this thriving town of wooded yards and sprawling lakes.Then one night a police car pulls up to the Woodbury home and George is charged with sexual misconduct with students from his...
15) Summer treasure
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Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
When Hannah goes to the beach with her mother, she is shocked to find her first-grade teacher, Mrs. Connor, lying there in a bathing suit as if she were an ordinary person.
16) Oliver's travels
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2004], c1995
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (148 min.; 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Oliver, a university lecturer with an obsession for anagrams and crosswords, has been a question-setter for "Mastermind". When made redundant by the new Vice-Chancellor of the New University (his former Polytechnic) in a general restructuring of the university, Oliver decides to use his new-found freedom to search for his favourite crossword compiler, known only by the pseudonym of "Aristotle". When he locates "Aristotle's" Welsh home, he is horrified...
17) Lilly's big day
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When her teacher announces that he is getting married, Lilly the mouse sets her heart on being the flower girl at his wedding.
Author
Series
Simply quartet (Mary Balogh) volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
En route to Bath, England, to teach at Miss Martin's School for Girls, Frances Allard seeks refuge from a snowstorm at a nearby inn and finds unexpected passion with Robert Marshall, unaware that Robert is the heir to the Earl of Edgecombe.
20) The maidens
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered...
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