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2) Last stories
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The beloved and acclaimed William Trevor's last ten stories With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales--nine of which have never been published in book form--that illuminate the human condition and will surely linger in the reader's mind long after closing the...
3) Loving Cara
Author
Series
Love under the big sky novels volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cara Donovan{u2019}s summer tutoring job is turning out to be a challenge{u2014}and not just because of her troubled twelve-year-old student. It{u2019}s his uncle Josh who{u2019}s the real problem. If problem is the word for an irresistibly cocky, muscle-bound rancher with a taste for tight Levi{u2019}s and shameless flirtation... Cara is nothing like the wallflower Josh King remembers good-naturedly teasing in high school. This Cara is gorgeous,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy. Their encounter seems fated: Eleanor, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, needs a job. Patricia's difficult thirteen-year-old daughter Margaux, recovering from polio, needs a private tutor. Though she feels out of place in the Bellamys' rarefied and elegant Park Avenue milieu, Eleanor forms an instant...
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 8
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
He is the last duke standing . . . the sole remaining bachelor of the three self-proclaimed Decadent Dukes. Yet Davina MacCallum's reasons for searching out the handsome Duke of Brentworth have nothing to do with marriage. Scottish lands were unfairly confiscated from her family by the Crown and given to his. A reasonable man with vast holdings can surely part with one trivial estate, especially when Davina intends to put it to good use. Brentworth,...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Karina Ahmed's parents have a lot of rules, and for her it is worth it to follow those rules instead of her dreams. With her parents in Bangledesh for a month, she expects to relax those rules a bit, but when the guy she's tutoring says she's his girlfriend to cover up the fact that he's getting help with his schoolwork, that breaks a major rule in a major way that she's sure will end in disaster. A strict deadline -- twenty-eight days -- and payment...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This summer's not going as Abby Atkinson planned. A thieving PhD advisor, a screeching halt to her grad program, and zero job offers have left her high and dry. Nothing a little eat, pray, love across the Mediterranean can't fix, right? Or eat, pray, tutor, more like. Her dissertation might be dead, but she can still teach. She'll just have to do it for six weeks on a superyacht with a billionaire and his daughter. A playboy billionaire, according...
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Accepting a position as live-in tutor for the Edwards family, Brontë Ellis arrives at Greenwood Manor where he is welcomed into the household with warmth until a tragic fire reveals dark secrets smoldering under the surface of this once elegant estate.
14) Shadow girl
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Mei arrives at the beautiful home on Arrow Island, she can't help feeling relieved. She's happy to spend the summer tutoring a rich man's daughter if it means a break from her normal life - her needy mother, her deliquent brother, their tiny apartment in the city. And Ella Morison seems like an easy charge, sweet and well behaved. It may not be the most exciting job, but at least it'll be drama-free. Or so Mei thinks. What she doesn't know is...
15) Stuck on you
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Depressed and discouraged after putting his dreams on hold for years, Lazarus Mitchell decides to enroll in college and hires a tutor to help him get acclimated, but his first sight of graduate student Kiana Solé Jordan makes him think that love hasn't given up on him.
Lazarus Mitchell's life has been a constant battle: he put his dreams on hold to fulfill his wife's, and once she achieved her career dreams she ended their marriage. He enrolls in...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation ; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day. T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family -- and a stack...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Readers rabid for the sweet historical romances of Tracie Peterson and Tamara Alexander will flock to best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer's prairie-set heartwarmer of high society cast-off and the western town that welcomes her. Abigail Brantley grew up in affluence and knows exactly how to behave in high society. But when she is cast from the social registers due to her father's illegal dealings, she finds herself forced into a role she never imagined:...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Jane has lost everything: job, mother, relationships, even her home. A friend calls to offer an unusual deal--a cottage above the crashing surf of Big Sur on the estate of his employer, Evan Rochester. In return, Jane will tutor his teenage daughter. She accepts. But nothing is quite as it seems at the Rochester estate. Though he's been accused of murdering his glamorous and troubled wife, Evan Rochester insists she drowned herself. Jane is skeptical,...
19) The lesson
Publisher
Decal Releasing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An aspiring young writer eagerly accepts a tutoring position at the family estate of his idol. Soon, he realizes that he is ensnared in a web of family secrets, resentment, and retribution that threatens his life. A taut noir thriller. -- Back cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill's Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain's beloved royals against an international plot--one that could change the course of history. As World WarII sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5. Spirited,...
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