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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Lena Kauffman is a young Old Order Amish schoolteacher who has dealt all her life with attention raised by a noticeable birthmark on her cheek. Having learned to move past the stares and whispers, Lena channels her zest for living into her love of teaching. But tensions mount as she is challenged to work with a rebellious young man and deal with several crises at the schoolhouse that threaten her other students. Her lack of submission and the use...
Author
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Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a War that will never end. On the home front, the people of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing everything they can to support the troops. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help: An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice, has been missing--and is later found murdered. Miss Dimple...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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As foreman of the Lone Star Cowboy League Boys Ranch, single father Flint Rawlings knows all about troubled kids--he just never imagined his son to be among them. Logan needs more looking after than Flint can provide, so he is relieved when the boy's teacher, Lana Alvarez, agrees to be his nanny over Christmas break. But having Lana nearby sets Flint on edge. He had vowed never to let another woman get close after Logan's mother left them, but Lana...
64) Misconduct
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Fall Away series who never fails to deliver a "powerfully written contemporary love story. Former tennis player Easton Bradbury is trying to be the best teacher she can be, trying to reach her bored students, trying to forget her past. What brought her to this stage in her life isn't important. She can't let it be. But now one parent-teacher meeting may be her undoing. Meeting Tyler Marek for the...
Author
Series
Southern crimes volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Emily Hunt might come from a family of cops, but she never goes looking for an adrenaline rush. She lives the quiet--well, relatively quiet--life of a teacher and thrives on making a difference in the lives of her students. But she'll have to draw on a well of strength and savvy she didn't know she had as student Rafael Cerda takes her class hostage for ransom money to save his brother's life. Undercover cop Mason Taylor has been working with Rafael...
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Participating in a community rally to raise funds for World War II troops, first-grade teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick enlists the aid of her fellow teachers when a skeleton is found at the edge of a field at the same time an event helper goes missing with the war bond money.
67) They say Sarah
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A literary sensation in France, this poetic, thrilling debut charts the all-consuming passion between two women and the ruin it leaves in its wake. A thirty-something teacher drifts through her life in Paris, raising a daughter on her own, lonely in spite of a new boyfriend. And then one night at a friend's tepid New Year's Eve party, Sarah enters the scene like a tornado-a talented young violinist, she is loud, vivacious, appealingly unkempt in...
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skálar seems like a small price to pay for a chance to earn some teaching credentials and...
69) Undaunted hope
Author
Series
Beacons of hope volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Running from the mistakes of her past, Tessa Taylor heads to the uppermost reaches of Michigan, planning to serve as the new teacher of the children of miners. She quickly learns the town has requested a male teacher, but Percival Updegraff, superintendent and chief mine clerk, says she can stay through winter since it's too late to replace her. Tessa can't help but thank him and say she is in his debt. Determined to make herself irreplacable once...
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Deeper than the dead novels volume 1
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English
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California, 1985. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with discovering the identity of a brutal, calculating psychopath. With the help of Special Agent Anne Navarro, a scientist, Tony's search pushes him ever deeper into the lives of three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own.
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Series
Goddesses Anonymous volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Christy Haviland served eight months in prison, giving birth behind bars to the child of the man who put her there and might yet destroy her. Now she's free again. Both women are standing at a crossroads, a place where unlikely unions can be formed. A place where two very different women might bridge the gap between generations and education, and together make tough choices. Georgia Ferguson, talented educator, receives a mysterious charm bracelet...
Author
Series
Forever yours volume 1
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Newly widowed dad Sebastian Dorner was unraveling at the edges--until his son's teacher, Via DeRosa, threw him a lifeline. Now, two years later, they reconnect at Matty's new school, and an inconvenient but unmistakable jolt of attraction crackles between them. But why does the first person to spark with Sebastian in years have to be a millennial? Is twentysomething Via really too young for him or does fortysomething Sebastian just feel too damn old?...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"World War II has just ended, and Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Control Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes. Somewhat aimless, bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher, and unwilling to live with her overbearing mother any longer, twentysomething Edith Graham applies for a job with the Commission--but...
74) Hope at dawn
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Series
Of love and war volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
"With her brothers away fighting the Great War overseas, Livy Campbell desperately wants to help her family. Her chance comes when she meets a handsome stranger who lands her a job as a teacher in a place far from her parents' farm. But the war casts a long shadow over the German-American town that Livy now calls home--and the darkness will test everything she thought she knew about family and love...More than anything, Friedrick Wagner wants to be...
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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It's 1942, and the residents of the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, have been rattled down to their worn, rationed shoes. For young teacher Charlie Carr, life and love aren't going exactly as planned--her head dictates loyalty to the handsome corpsman, Hugh, but whenever she thinks of her best friend's beau, Will, her heart does the Jersey Bounce. Charlie is doubly troubled by the disappearance of beloved schoolmistress Miss Dimple Kilpatrick one...
Author
Series
Unexpected Amish blessings volume 2
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Priscilla Ebersol has a fulfilling life teaching special needs children--until her boyfriend's humiliating betrayal ruins her reputation and threatens her job. Ostracized for something she didn't do, Priscilla throws herself into a project on the benefits of camel's milk for autism. Her research leads her to a fledgling local camel farm, where she discovers far more than she bargained for ... When a pushy Englisch company shows interest in shy, handsome...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on Culture and Civilization, taught not for undergraduates...
78) A better man
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Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Kincade brothers: they'll do what it takes to protect their legacy - but what happens when love gets in the way? Hockey star Jordan Kincade wasted no time ditching Sunshine Valley and everyone who mattered for a career in the NHL - a truth Jordan confronts when his parents' deaths bring him home. Now he's back to make amends, which begins with keeping his younger sister from flunking out of school. It's just his luck that the one person who...
79) Let it be me
Author
Series
Misty River romance volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Having graduated college at 18, Sebastian Grant has continued to leverage his intelligence and determination to become a pediatric heart surgeon. The more accolades he receives, the more he's driven to pursue. Then he meets high school math teacher Leah Montgomery, and his fast-spinning world comes to a sudden stop. Solving advanced math equations by the age of five, Leah has always wanted to pursue a PhD in mathematics. She willingly put that dream...
Author
Publisher
Picador/H. Holt
Pub. Date
[2004].
Language
English
Description
Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George's, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does another: Sheba has begun an illicit affair with an underage male student. When the scandal turns into a media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend's defense - and ends up revealing not only Sheba's secrets but her own.
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