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1) Outline
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"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...
2) Transit
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of 2015 In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tres has taken a short-term teaching job at the University of Texas at Austin. He is living with his brother Garrett, a computer wizard, and enjoying this easy assignment. But when Garrett's business partner is murdered, Tres must switch from professor to detective. Rick Riordan, teacher, Texan, and multiple award-winner, creates a masterful mixture of local color and mystery in each Tres Navarre mystery.
4) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
English professor Vivian Bearing reflects on life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a scandal that tarnished her Brahmin family, Charulata arrives at Miss Timmins' School for Girls in Panchgani three weeks before her twenty-first birthday in 1974, where she begins teaching Shakespeare to rich Indian girls, but, while the school brings about opportunities for new cultural experiences, Charu finds herself implicated in a murder investigation.
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A sleuthing English professor looks into the sordid secret life of a student who's gone missing . . .
When a young woman comes to Professor Pennyfeather and confides that her cousin Ernestine-one of his English students-is missing, he's surprised to hear that the bookish girl in his class is a very different person outside of school. Apparently, in the evenings, she transforms herself into a femme fatale and looks for naïve young sailors at...
11) Coup de grâce
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Sarah Deane, having accepted a one-semester post teaching English at Miss Merritt's New England boarding school for girls, is upset by the increasing threats against iron-fisted French teacher Mme. Grace Carpentier, but she is spurred to investigate when another teacher is found murdered along a campus path.
12) Wisdom Tree
Author
Publisher
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes the last thing we think we need is exactly what God has plannedAfter the death of his parents, Jake Samuels has enough on his plate?including a fledgling church to lead and a mischievous younger brother to raise. The last thing he needs is a rambunctious woman to contend with.Carin O'Malley is dealing with the death of her brother and a new job as an English teacher at East Ridge Middle School where Corey Samuels reigns as King of Chaos....
14) Holy Disorders
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This 1945 classic British mystery from "a master of the whodunnit . . . combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue and a touch of surreal hilarity" (The New York Times Book Review).
On holiday in the town of Tolnbridge with his butterfly net in hand, Prof. Gervase Fen, Oxford don of English Literature, is all set for a good frolic when he learns that the cathedral organist has been murdered. With Scotland Yard unable to make sense of the crime,...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It's a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counselor Madison Clark and English teacher Travis Manawa have managed to assemble.
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In My Father's Fighter, Vincent Rosen, a 35-year-old Manhattan English teacher, inherits the management of a prizefighter from his father. The fighter is Mickey Davis, a white light-heavyweight contender with a doomed air, a reputation for dirty fighting, and plenty of neuroses and sexual obsessions. With his Ivy League education and bookish nature, Vincent does not share his father's passion for boxing, yet is slowly seduced by the fighting world....
17) The whale
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reclusive English teacher, living alone in the wake of a tragedy, attempts to reconnect with his teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption in filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's transcendent, emotional epic. Nominated for three Academy Awards and featuring a career-defining performance from Brendan Fraser, THE WHALE is a deeply moving story of heartache, empathy, and grace.
18) Turning Japanese
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Gou ni itte wa, gou ni shitagae, runs an old Japanese proverb: Obey the customs of the village you enter. Just don't overdo things. It may already be too late for Cricket Collins, a recent Ivy League graduate who travels to Osaka for his first real job as an English instructor. The time is late 1970s, with Japan quickly becoming the new find-yourself region that India was to the backpack set in the 1960s. From pachinko parlors to paper cranes,...
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