Cusk, Rachel
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSSummary: Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEARichman, Alyson
Summary: "In her second year teaching sixth grade English, Maggie Topper is chosen for a special assignment: to privately tutor a student with serious health issues that prevent him from attending class with other kids. Though she agrees to the assignment, her decision is clouded with painful memories from her own childhood. It isn't easy for her to make a connection with Yuri Krasny, the son of two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICSummary: Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEASummary: Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Akamatsu, Ken.
Summary: "The war is over, and all that's left is the save the Magical World from imminent destruction. With the help of Asuna and others in his class, Negi is working to put his plan into effect. Meanwhile, Negi's students are realizing just what a heartbreaker the little boy has become"--Cover verso.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEGCochrun, Alison
Summary: A long time ago, Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale used to be friends. They spent their childhood summers running through the woods, rebelling against their conservative small town, and dreaming of escaping. But then an incident the summer before high school turned them into bitter rivals. After graduation, they went ten years without speaking. Now in their thirties, Logan and Rosemary find they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperbacks 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Prep school teacher Jack Marcus meets his match in Dina Delsanto, an abstract painter and new teacher on campus. He challenges her to a war between words and pictures, and in the process, sparks an unlikely romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOR RATED PG-13Crider, Bill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CRIBarbieri, Maggie.
Summary: When a friend asks her for help in finding his nephew, English professor Alison Bergeron enlists the assistance of her boyfriend, NYPD detective Bobby Crawford, only to discover that the missing boy has turned up dead in the Hudson, the victim of a suspicious ""suicide."
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARSummary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHAAbrahams, Peter
Summary: A young woman who hopes to give up her bartending job to become a successful writer, Ivy Seidel falls under the spell of Vance Harrow, convicted for a terrible crime, while teaching writing to inmates at a maximum security prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRRiordan, Rick.
Summary: When his brother Garrett, a wheelchair-bound computer genius, is accused of killing his oldest friend, Texas private detective and English teacher Tres Navarre ventures into a world of high-tech evil to find the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction RiordanWolf, Naomi.
Summary: Bestselling author Naomi Wolf was brought up to believe that happiness is something that can be taught--and learned. In this book, she shares the enduring wisdom of her father, a poet and teacher who believes that every person is an artist in their own unique way, and that personal creativity is the secret of happiness. Leonard Wolf is a true eccentric: a tall, craggy, good-looking man in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 WOLHerman, Michelle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacAdam/Cage Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERVandever, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANHallett, Janice
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HALLovett, Charles C
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman's Tale comes a new novel about an obsessive bibliophile's quest through time to discover a missing manuscript, the unknown history of an English Cathedral, and the secret of the Holy Grail. Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient books and manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library. Increasingly, he feels like a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVSokolove, Michael Y.
Summary: "The true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 VOLPE, LOU SOKWilliams, John Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILNafisi, Azar.
Summary: Prof. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to repressive government policies. For the next 2 years, until she left Iran, she gathered 7 young women, former students, at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss works of Western literature forbidden by the new regime. They used this forum to learn to speak freely, not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9 NAFSummary: Linda is an English teacher with a small apartment full of a rich collection of great literature. Her only close personal relationships are those she has with her favorite authors. Her life is far less complicated than the dramas she reads, and she likes it that way. All that changes when former star pupil Jason returns to town after failing as a playwright in New York. To help him avoid law...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie English 2013Akamatsu, Ken.
Summary: "Now that the Mahora Festival is finally over, everyone's ready for some peace and quiet. But the school is in an uproar after Misora impersonates a priest -- and convinces her fellow students to spill their deepest secrets in the confessional. It seems like everyone has a secret--and all of them involve Negi!"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEGGoodyear, Sara Suleri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1989