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2) The teacher
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In a village in South West England, an elderly man is found dead in his home. The angle of his neck says he fell down the stairs. The stab wound on his body tells a different story.In the weeks before his murder, Alistair Moreton changed. He usually kept himself to himself, but people swear there was someone in the house when they checked on him, that there was a reason he wouldn't let them inside. Moreton made people's lives a misery, from his neighbours...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of the Roman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Education reforms have eroded the teacher's position. This leaves teachers with psychological scars -- scars that are fueling the recent exodus from teaching. In Educational Folly: Teacher Well-Being and the Chaos of American Schooling, Gonsalves lays out a new vision for the future of educational reform. This model centers around justice, community, and professionalism to return the teacher to the rightful head of the classroom and restore dignity...
4) Grey dog
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women's historical fiction with delusions, wild beasts, and the uncontainable power of female rage The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd -- spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist -- accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 710L
Language
English
Description
"Miranda is an animal expert. Or at least, she watches a lot of Nature Joe. Nature Joe is incredible. He rescues animals, returning them to their natural habitat. Mrs. Birdley is a teacher. The natural habitat of a teacher is a classroom. So when Mrs. Birdley escapes school and ends up wild, loose, and confused at the local grocery store, Miranda knows just what to do: she must use her brain, her guts, and her extensive knowledge of Nature Joe to...
Author
Series
My weirdtastic school volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone likes veggies, right? Wrong! When Principal Stoker decides that Ella Mentry School needs a vegetable garden, A.J. and his friends just want to plant junk food. But when gardening expert Miss Nichol comes to oversee the planting, things get totally out of control. What could possibly go wrong?"--
Author
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways. Bookworms know what scholars of literature are trained to forget: that when they devour a work of literary fiction, whatever else they may be doing, they are reading about themselves. Read Shakespeare, and you become Cleopatra, Hamlet, or Bottom. Or at the very least, you experience the plays as if you are in a small room alone with them,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Earning a flight instructor certificate (CFI) is extremely challenging and involves an immense amount of training, studying, preparation, and dedication. With the national pass rate for first-time flight instructor applicants hovering around 20%, the Practical Guide to the CFI Checkride provides thorough preparation to flight instructor applicants, and significantly increases their chances of success on the CFI checkride. Written in "plain language,"...
10) Here we go again
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A queer rom-com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country"--
A long time ago, Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale used to be friends. They spent their childhood summers running through the woods, rebelling against their conservative small town, and dreaming of escaping. But then an incident the summer before high school turned them into bitter rivals. After graduation, they went ten years...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel's dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia's presence sparks fury among her neighbors and throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend. Decades later, in 2019, Max (formerly Mel) is on probation from his teaching job for, ironically, defying speech codes around trans identity. Back...
12) Love in tandem
Author
Language
English
Description
After a failed engagement and her mother's battle with cancer, Charlotte Carter's life is finally turning around now that she's landed a dream job teaching music. What she didn't see coming was the imminent closure of the school's music program. She's determined to save it, even if it means getting creative. There's no way she's chalking this up as just another failure in her book of recent embarrassments. Zach Bryant is back in town just long enough...
13) Mania
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"After the tragic loss of his best friends, rancher Drew Morgan willingly accepts guardianship of their six-month-old baby?until he learns big-city professor Sadie Ross has temporary custody as well. Opposites in every way, the pair now has eight weeks together on Drew?s ranch to decide who will become the permanent parent. Could this makeshift family turn into something real?before the deadline is up?"--
15) Just be here
Author
Series
Mainely romance volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The last thing Nick expects to find when he's out chasing poachers is love. When Libby takes a new job teaching elementary school, she meets a game warden she's drawn to. But Libby and Nick both lack self-confidence and battle memories of difficult relationships in the past. A confrontation with her former fiancé and a traumatic hunting accident tear at Libby. When they agree to put their trust in God, their relationship begins to flourish and...
16) The tree doctor
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
While caring for her Japanese mother, an unnamed narrator, preoccupied with her mother?s garden, embarks on a torrid affair with an arborist equally fascinated by it and as she becomes obsessed with the awakening of her own body, she begins to see her mother?s illness as part of a natural order.
17) Fallout
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling and award-winning author Carrie Stuart Parks utilizes her expertise as a forensic artist in this gripping story that shows how the end doesn't always justify the means"--
Publisher
Imagicomm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Christmas in Maple Hills: To save her family's legacy, Valerie Warrick teams up with handsome veteran Walker Jennings to dig into her family's past.
Christmas in Big Sky Country: Becca teams up with the oil company's new PR rep, Logan Johnston, to get her brother-in-law safely home for the holidays.
Christmas with the Knightlys: A teacher finds herself in the spotlight when she poses as the girlfriend of a famous billionaire.