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1042) Crusoe's daughter
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When Polly Flint was six, she was sent to live with her two pious aunts in a yellow house close to the Irish Sea. To the lonely orphan this bleak coast of England was so isolated she might have been marooned on an island. For Polly, the world of books, especially Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, with whose hero she will conduct a lifelong dialogue, became a source of emotional and intellectual nourishment. Soon the worlds of imagination and reality had only...
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Science teacher Vanessa Cruise was spending her summer working in Bronco. Rekindling her short-term fling with the hottest rancher in town? Not on her to-do list - especially since commitment is her Number One don't. But the handsome rancher promises to keep their relationship hidden from the town gossips, then finds himself longing for more than just a summer affair. Convincing Vanessa he's worth the risk might be the hardest thing he's ever had...
1044) The furies: a novel
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"After losing her fiancé in a shocking tragedy, Alex Morris moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break with the past. Formerly an actress, Alex accepts a job teaching drama therapy at a school commonly referred to as "The Unit, " a last-chance learning community for teens expelled from other schools in the city. Her students have troubled pasts and difficult personalities, and Alex is an inexperienced teacher, terrified of what she's taken on...
1045) You: a novel
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Cecilia is obsessively in love with her teacher, Mr. Dahl. Yet she never guesses that what she dreams of could actually happen. Cecilia's mother Dora wants the good life. She and her husband moved to Dartmoor so their children could run wild; free to make their own mistakes. But Dora discovers that there is more to the countryside idyll, and indeed her own marriage, than she assumed.
1047) One way ticket
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Faced with crisis in her personal life, yoga instructor Paige Lowry accepts a job as events manager for the Tranquila Inn on Poco Poco Island in the Caribbean, but things quickly become more complicated as parts of Paige's old life collide with her new one, one that includes hotel manager Jack Byron.
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Mrs. Millie volume 4
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Students surprise their beloved but silly teacher with a birthday party, giving her ample opportunity to make them laugh by mixing up her words.
1049) Gone tomorrow
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George Canaris, a writing professor at a small college in Ohio, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Having taken a hefty advance on his second novel, not a page of it is to be found. Mark May, a young English professor, is named as Canaris's literary executor and begins a search through lives and letters that is at once gripping, hilarious, and affirming.
1050) The white rose
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Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia, finds her wealthy, married, and comfortable life turned upside down when she finds herself in an awkward love triangle with Sophie, a graduate student, and Oliver, the son of her oldest friend.
1051) Now Lila knows
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"Lila Bonnard has left her island home in the Caribbean to join the faculty as a visiting professor at Mayfield College in a small Vermont town. On her way from the airport to Mayfield, Lila witnesses the fatal shooting of a Black man by the police. It turns out that the victim was a professor at Mayfield, and was giving CPR to a white woman who was on the verge of an opioid overdose. The two Black faculty and a Black administrator in the otherwise...
1052) Safe from the neighbors
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This tightly constructed tale by PEN/Faulkner finalist Steve Yarbrough tells the story of a Mississippi history teacher who's determined to unravel the truth about one tragic day in 1962. Even as he pursues an affair with a long-lost friend, he wonders if she could hold the missing piece to this racially charged puzzle.
1053) Schooled in murder
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Tom Mason, Chicago area high school teacher, has been teaching at Grover Cleveland High School for a while - long enough to loathe the faculty meetings and long enough to know that as bad as they are, they aren't fatal. Usually. Having had all he can take of the endless bickering, picking and factional disputes, he sneaks out of the meeting for a short break only to find the meeting over when he returns, the usual suspects having departed to the four...
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Dewey Fairchild volume 2
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While sixth-grader Dewey is trying to help schoolmates solve their teacher problems, the school itself enacts bizarre changes that lead Dewey and his friends to commit acts some would call vandalism.
1055) Standing up to Mr. O
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Twelve-year-old Maggie comes to dread biology class because her favorite teacher is insisting that she dissect a worm, an assignment that makes her feel very squeamish and awakens her to the question of animal rights.
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Phyllis loves to spend quality time with her grandson. She'll be taking him to a festival with hopes of winning the baking contest-now that her friendly competitor, Carolyn, is judging and not competing. But when a decorative scarecrow is actually a dead body in disguise, it's Phyllis's sleuthing skills that are needed. The dead body is that of the festival's organizer- and his wife, Carolyn's friend, falls under suspicion. Carolyn turns to Phyllis...
1059) A tangled mercy: a novel
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"Told in alternating tales at once haunting and redemptive, A Tangled Mercy is a quintessentially American epic rooted in heartbreaking true events examining the harrowing depths of human brutality and betrayal, and our enduring hope for freedom and forgiveness."--
2015: After the sudden death of her troubled mother, struggling Harvard grad student Kate Drayton walks out on her lecture-- and her entire New England life. She flees to Charleston, South...