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1) Outline
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Outline volume 1
Publication Date
2015.
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"Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and...
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"It's spring in the tiny town of Damariscotta, a tourist haven on the coast of Maine known for its oysters and antiques. Andrew, a high school English teacher recently returned to the area, has brought his family to Ed and Steph Thatch's sprawling riverside estate to attend a reception for the Amherst women's lacrosse team. Back when they were all teenagers, Andrew never could have predicted that Ed, descended from a long line of lobstermen, or Steph,...
3) Transit
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Series
Outline volume 2
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Cusk's outstanding latest, the second in a trilogy, works as both a companion piece to the superb Outline and as an independent narrative, following Faye, a writer and teacher, who moves to London with her two young sons after a divorce. As in Outline, Faye's arc is less about plotted action and is more a series of vignettes, focused this time on long conversations about the ways we journey through life. During these chats, her hairdresser reveals...
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Professor Sally Good mysteries volume 2
Publication Date
2002
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 22 cm.
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A murder at a British boarding school in the hills of western India launches a young teacher on the journey of a lifetime In 1974, three weeks before her twenty-first birthday, Charulata Apte arrives at Miss Timmins' School for Girls in Panchgani. Shy, sheltered, and running from a scandal that disgraced her Brahmin family, Charu finds herself teaching Shakespeare to rich Indian girls in a boarding school still run like an outpost of the British Empire....
7) Foiled again
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Sarah Deane mysteries volume 13
Publication Date
2007
Physical Desc
xii, 350 p. ; 22 cm.
11) Yume
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Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
526 pages ; 22 cm
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"A modern-day fantasy novel about demons, dreams, and a young woman teaching English in Japan. Cybelle, an expat, lives in a small city in the Kansai region of Japan. Life is difficult: her coworkers don't treat her as one of their own and, outside of work, people dislike or even fear her. On top of it all, Cybelle is struggling to conform to the rules that have helped her survive so far. Elsewhere in Kansai, Zaniel navigates the dream realm, bringing...
13) The whale
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
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Publication Date
2019.
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"From the #1 international bestselling author of The Lost Wife and The Velvet Hours comes an emotionally charged story about a mothers love, a teachers promise, and a child's heart. Katya, a rising ballerina, and Sasha, a graduate student, are young and in love when an unexpected tragedy befalls their native Kiev. Years later, after the couple has safely emigrated to America the consequences of this incident cause their son, Yuri, to be born with...
15) Murder 101
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Publication Date
2006
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viii, 275 p. ; 22 cm.
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When her stolen car turns up with the body of one of her students in its trunk, English professor Alison Bergeron suddenly finds herself on NYPD Homicide Detective Bobby Crawford's list of suspects and embarks on a quest to clear her name.
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Publication Date
2017.
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356 pages ; 24 cm
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"How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? A prestigious boys' boarding school. A best friend's betrayal. A decades-old mystery of a missing student. In this sharp literary thriller, Matthias Glass gets drawn into his past as he attempts to come to terms with the long-ago disappearance of his prep-school roommate--and to become the man he is meant to be. In the middle of his senior year at the Blackburne School in Virginia, Matthias Glass's...
18) Choose me
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Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant--so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl's fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, Frankie knows in her gut there's more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn's suicide--or a motive for murder. To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate...
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Publication Date
2023.
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326 pages ; 24 cm
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"Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Severely dyslexic and wanting to know more, he took it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford's...
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