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Author
Series
Sunshine Valley novels volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Taking a second job to pay off her late husband's debts, teacher Mary Margaret Snead doesn't have time for love until she falls victim to the town's meddling matchmakers and a single dad who is determined to win her heart.
43) True to the law
Author
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
August 1889. Private detective Cobb Bridger Mackey is hired to find a women who disappeared along with an item of great value. In Bitter Springs, Wyoming he meets school teacher Miss Tru Morrow, who may or may not be what she seems. As the investigation unfolds Cobb must decide if Tru is trustworthy or out to swindle his heart.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Black is the headmistress of a girls' school and a well-respected author of "silver-fork" novels, stories written both for and about the upper-class ladies of Victorian society. But by night, she writes very different kinds of stories--the Penny Dreadfuls that are all the rage among the working-class men. Under the pseudonym Mr. King, Elizabeth has written about dashing heroes fighting supernatural threats and dangerous outlaws romancing...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, Charlotte Tucker jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grant's ranch in Sawyer to begin her new career. She soon befriends Owen and Hannah Wallace, a brother and sister who have come from Colorado following the death of their mother. Abandoned at an early age by a father they never knew, they are set on revenge against the man who left them -- a man they believe is John Grant.
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.
48) Anne of Avonlea
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2006], c1975
Language
English
Description
Anne's life at Green Gables takes unexpected turns with the arrival of two new orphans and the realization of her dream to go to college. Through marriage proposals from suitors and the sale of her first story, Anne holds on to her memories of Avonlea and discovers life and love on her own terms.
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...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and...
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...
52) Take a chance
Author
Series
Bridgeport Social Club volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kurt Holland moves to Bridgeport to give his younger brother more opportunities, but soon Sam gets in trouble at school. All the stress might be worth it, when he meets Sam's English teacher, Emily.
Kurt Holland moves to Bridgeport, Ohio so his younger brother Sam will have more opportunities, maybe even a scholarship to college. When Sam gets in trouble for fighting at school, Kurt meets Sam's English teacher. Emily Springer is passionate about...
53) Belonging
Author
Series
Where the heart lives volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"In the high desert town of Frenchman's Bluff, Idaho, Felicia Kristoffersen has set out to create a future for herself that is better than her painful past. Alone in the world with only her faith to sustain her, she must prove herself as this tiny community's new school teacher. She cannot, must not, fail. But, there are those who never wanted her there to begin with. Five years after the death of his wife, local merchant Colin Murphy cares about...
54) Hope at dawn
Author
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
Pebble Creek Amish volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Amish schoolteacher Miriam King loves her students. At twenty-six, most women her age are married with children of their own, but she hasn't yet met anyone who can persuade her to give up the Plain school that sits along the banks of Pebble Creek. Then newcomer Gabriel Miller steps into her life, bringing his daughter, an air of mystery, and challenges Miriam has never faced before."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Professor Sally Good mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
58) 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...
Author
Series
Merriwell sisters volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Miss Venus Merriwell has been waiting for her prince to come since the tender age of fourteen. She wants a man who is a selfless academic like her, and free from all the wretched vices her gambler father enjoyed far too much before he left the Merriwell sisters practically destitute. Unfortunately, after a slew of romantic disappointments, there is still no sign of that prince at twenty-three and the only one true love of her life is the bursting-at-the-seams...
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