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Author
Series
Violent Crime Investigations Team volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A middle school teacher leaves home one morning and never arrives at his job. He leaves behind his briefcase and his phone, along with photographs of some of his female students. Across town, a detective on Santa Rosa's Violent Crimes Investigations team joins a colleague from the narcotics division as they investigate the killing of a dealer and local heroin smuggling operation. As the two cases converge in unexpected ways, secrets rise to the surface,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The profane, profound and just plain funny story of a professional woman who thinks she's ready for a baby but her maternity leave proves otherwise. Thirty six year old Annie Schwartz-Jensen is a middle school teacher on maternity leave - a time she imagined as uninterrupted, blissful bonding with her baby. Instead she is dealing with her body leaking from every possible orifice, a baby who won't sleep, a husband who still wants to have sex with...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First English language edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After calling off her engagement in wake of a tragic revelation, Yūko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yūko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion...
6) Schooled
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 345 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lovelock, Nevada. A boy walks into the fire station, pale with the shock of a grisly discovery. By day's end, the body burning in the desert hills is identified as local math teacher Adam Merkel. A seemingly unremarkable man, he left a university professorship in Reno to teach middle school, but connected with just one of his students: Sal Prentiss, a lonely sixth grader who lives with his uncles on a desolate ranch in the hills. Sal found Adam's...
Language
English
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Formats
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Toula is a quiet, devoted daughter in a big, crazy Greek family. Working in her father's restaurant, she hides behind her family and keeps the world at a distance. One day at the restaurant she finds herself pouring coffee for a man who inspires her to change her life, and the way she sees the world ... forever.
9) The teacher
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Slovak
Description
In 1983, students and parents at a suburban Bratislava middle school must decide whether to go against new teacher Miss Drazdechova, a high-ranking official of the Communist Party who is tying pupils' grades to how helpful their families can be with favors.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 241 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with Pete, and his hope for America's future. Throughout the past year, teacher Chasten Glezman Buttigieg has emerged on the national stage, having left his classroom in South Bend, Indiana, to travel cross-country in support of his husband, former mayor Pete...
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