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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to rebuild her life, English teacher Maura Shaw comes to Newport Academy, an elite private high school, with her two children, but the ghosts of the past, including her estrangement from her sister, continue to haunt her.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem "Christmas Bells," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day/ Their old familiar carols play/ And wild and sweet/ The words repeat/Of peace on earth, good-will to men! In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge,...
Author
Series
New Hope Amish volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Readers of Kelly Irvin's Bliss Creek Amish novels will be overjoyed to discover her new series for lovers of Amish fiction: The New Hope Amish. In the first installment, Love Still Stands, a group of dedicated families leaves Bliss Creek to establish a new community in Missouri. Among them is Bethel Graber, a beautiful young woman with a passion for teaching. But after being disabled in a terrible accident, overseeing a classroom is out of the question...and...
Author
Series
Cimarron Creek trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
346 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Catherine Whitfield is sure that she will never again be able to trust anyone in the medical profession after the town doctor's excessive bleeding treatments killed her mother. Despite her loneliness and her broken heart, she carries bravely on as Cimarron Creek's dutiful schoolteacher, resigned to a life without love or family, a life where dreams rarely come true. Austin Goddard is a newcomer to Cimarron Creek. Posing as a rancher, he fled to Texas...
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Escape to the Chesapeake Bay, where beach life is full of love, surprises and second chances… When an injury forces K-9 officer Trey Harrison onto the sidelines, his only thought is getting back to the police force where he belongs. And he’ll do anything to make that happen—even volunteer in a small waterfront community, just to please his boss. But no one ever said Trey had to enjoy it… Since the surgery that destroyed her dreams of having...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
New schoolteacher Edythe Amsel has a small 1880s Nebraska town up in arms over her newfangled teaching methods, and when she takes her pupils to hear Miss Susan Anthony speak, it may be the final straw.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding...
Author
Series
Timber Ridge reflections volume 2
Language
English
Description
Dismissed from her prestigious university job, Dr. Molly Whitcomb travels to a secluded Colorado mountain town where she takes a schoolteacher position and falls in love with the local sheriff, despite pretending to be married.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The lone lawman in the small Texas town of Branding, widowed single father Sheriff Sam Delaney shoulders a lot until a special someone enters the picture.
11) Take a chance
Author
Series
Bridgeport Social Club volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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.
12) 13 1/2
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Polly Deschamps's happiness upon marrying Marshall Marchand soon turns to fear as his moods darken--due, Polly believes, to the sway of Marshall's brother, Danny--and she wonders if the brothers' dark secret has anything to do with the infamous "Butcher Boy" murders of 1971.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A busy teacher, wife and mother juggles her nonstop commitments and is shocked when she receives an ominous, threatening note in the mail warning her that she's about to be taught a lesson.
Author
Series
Creektown discoveries volume vol 2
Creektown discoveries volume 2
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Creektown discoveries volume 2
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to Sugarcreek, Ohio, where the Amish schoolteacher has a determined admirer. Tragically losing her parents as a child, Lisa Miller has grown up being afraid of loving and losing. She dedicates herself to teaching at an Amish schoolhouse and helping the grandparents who raised her, all the while avoiding the advances of newcomer Paul Herchberger. Paul enjoys antiques and meets Orley Troyer while looking for unique old milk bottles at yard...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her first love, and the only person who knows her secret, returns after years of exile from their Amish community, schoolteacher Dorcas Beiler falls victim to her matchmaking students, who think they are perfect for each other.
Author
Series
School by the sea volume 1
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 283 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At Downey House, a charming English boarding school by the sea, new teacher Maggie is determined to make her mark, which jeopardizes her relationship with her safe, dependable boyfriend, while new student Simone tries to fit in and fellow student Fliss tries to get out.
18) Miracle road
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Ballantine Books mass market edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ex-college basketball coach Lucca Romano and schoolteacher Hope Montgomery, who are both seeking peace from traumas in their pasts, find their lives intersecting after Lucca moves to Eternity Springs, Colorado.
Author
Series
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
219, [2] p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Peter Walsh becomes fixated on finding the person responsible for killing his father, a task that takes him away from his son, a situation that Lisa Navarrone hopes to resolve as she tries to help Peter reconnect with his child.
20) Last rites
Author
Series
Jubilee Kentucky volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
459 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shirley Wallace and her four sons return to her childhood home on Pope Mountain in Jubilee, Kentucky, with a lifetime of hardship behind them, hoping to find peace and begin their lives anew. Eldest brother Aaron Pope returns to his life as a police officer, and is settling in just fine. Then Aaron's investigation into an attempted murder leads him right to Dani Owens. She may hold the key to a long-lost part of the Pope family's past, and more importantly,...