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150 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"A meditative portrayal of one man's overwhelming inability to connect with contemporary society Elias Rukla begins yet another day under the leaden Oslo sky. At the high school where he teaches, a novel insight into Ibsen's The Wild Duck grips him with a passion so intense that he barely notices the disinterest of his students. After the lesson, when a broken umbrella provokes an unpredictable rage, he barely notices the students' intense curiosity....
2) Flower
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a sassy seventeen-year-old living with her single mom Laurie and mom's new boyfriend, Bob. When Bob's son, Luke, moves in with the family after a stint in rehab, Erica finds her life overwhelmed. With Luke and her sidekicks, Kala and Claudine, in tow, Erica acts out by exposing a dark secret of high school teacher Will, with perilous results. Their teenage kicks become a catalyst for growing up in unexpected...
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317 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Saul and Patsy, both from the East Coast, meet in college, fall in love, and settle down to married life in the Midwest. There the lives of children - their own and others' - begin to invade their own lives. One of Saul's students, a deeply troubled sixteen-year-old boy, has become obsessed with Saul's life. And although Saul can't see it coming, the outcome of the boy's obsession will lead Saul to question everything he has always assumed about himself,...
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355 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A refreshingly honest look inside the teaching profession, Why Are All the Good Teachers Crazy? is a captivating collection of hilarious stories and unreserved observations from one man's odyssey in the classroom. With equal parts humanity, insanity, and profanity, Frank Stepnowski, a twenty year veteran of the academic wars, offers unique insight into a world everybody knows about but very few understand. "Step" as he was re-christened by his students,...
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272 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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In an edenic community of wealthy Bay Area families, Molly Nicholl, a replacement teacher from a poorer, scrubbier version of California, arrives in the middle of the school year and soon becomes intrigues by the hidden lives of her privileged students. Unknown to her, a tragedy from their middle school years continues to reverberate for 'her' kids. Among these are Callista, a hippie outcast who hides her intelligence for reasons of her own; Ryan...
8) One wish
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Thunder Point novel volume 7
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English
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Starting a new life as a flower-shop owner, former champion figure skater Grace Dillon begins a no-strings-attached relationship with high school teacher Troy Headly, and when Grace's past comes back to haunt her, Troy doubles down on their relationship and brings it to the next level.
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English
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Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks and terror rushes through Nora's body. Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and eventually, a psychiatrist. As the story progresses, a...
12) Nobody's girl
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285 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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For years Birdy Stone was a bored schoolteacher in New Mexico, living off pot and novels. One day a woman asks her help in writing a book about two unexplained deaths in her family. As Birdy turns sleuth, she starts living for the first time. By the author of Talking in Bed.
13) Miss Stevens
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Stuck at a crossroads in her personal life, it falls on Miss Stevens to chaperone three of her students Billy, Margot, and Sam on a weekend trip to a drama competition. Exploring the fine line between being a grown up and being a kid, this film is about students becoming teachers and teachers coming to realize that the messiness of youth never really goes away.
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iii, 265 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Long Beach, California, homicide detective Danny Beckett is pouring the weekend's first shot of vodka when the call comes in: Elizabeth Williams, a teacher at nearby Warren High School, has been brutally murdered in her classroom. When Danny arrives at the school, the blood-spattered crime scene turns even his veteran stomach. What could this young woman have done to make her the target of such a violent attack? And what is the significance of the...
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English
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"Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously missing. Defying this trend, teacher and writer Garret Keizer takes us to school -- literally -- in this account of his return to the same rural Vermont high school where he taught fourteen years ago. Much has changed since then: a former student is his principal, standardized testing...
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English
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"A middle-aged poet finds herself adrift in her marriage and life now that her child has moved away to college. Her job teaching Greek myth to high school boys at a prestigious New York City academy has its small pleasures-her students offer surprising insights to stories she's studied for decades-but as her debut poetry collection approaches publication she starts to notice the seams of her life becoming unloosed. The chorus of voices in her life...
18) Bad teacher
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1 videodisc (approximately 97 min. unrated ; approximately 92 min. theatrical) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth is a foul-mouthed, ruthless junior high teacher who can't wait to marry her meal ticket and get out of her bogus day job. When she's dumped by her fiance, she begins to woo a rich, handsome substitute. Competing for his affections is overly energetic colleague, Amy. Elizabeth also finds herself fighting off the advances of a sarcastic gym teacher. The consequences of her outrageous schemes give her students, her coworkers and herself an...
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Series
Dead Kid Detective Agency volume 1
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English
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13-year-old October Schwartz is new in town, short on friends and the child of a clinically depressed science teacher. She spends most of her time in the Sticksville Cemetery, which borders her back garden, and just happens to be the home of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past. Soon October befriends the five kids and together, using October's smarts and the dead kids' ability to walk through walls, they form The Dead Kid Detective...
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