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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain. The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up...
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
My Best Friend's Wedding meets Never Have I Ever in this utterly charming, heart-stealing debut romance about two completely different people who get engaged under false pretenses. I couldn't put down this page-turner . . . A warm, smart, sexy, and absolutely charming debut. -Colleen Hoover When Seth, Meghna's one-who-got-away writing partner and best friend, asks Meghna Raman to be the best man for his last-minute wedding, Meghna is determined to...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale sent their childhood as best friends, until an incident the summer before high school turned them into bitter rivals. Now in their thirties and working as teachers at their alma mater, Rosemary and Logan are stuck in old patterns, their dreams of adventure long forgotten. But wen their beloved former English teacher tells them he has only a few months to live, they're forced together to fulfill his last wish: a cross-country...
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Language
English
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Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son now grown. A second chance at love brings her unexpected connection and belonging--and sparks a flurry of speculation. What does a woman like her see in a man like that? What happened to his wife who abandoned him and his children all those years ago? Carol and Declan know their relationship is the talk of the town, but the gossip only serves to bring...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Eva is so excited to enter the Treetop Treats contest with her best friend, Lucy. If they bake the tastiest treat in all of Treetopington, they’ll win a golden apron! The apron is the perfect gift for their teacher, Ms. Featherbottom. But when perfect Sue announces she’s going to enter the contest, too, Eva worries her treat will never win first place. Can Eva and Lucy come up with the winning recipe?
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With deadpan humor and a keen eye for the strangeness of our days, Negative Space follows a week in the life of a part-time high school English teacher. At home, her two children, increasingly restless in the wake of the pandemic, ask constant questions that flit from the weirdness of television shows to casual conversations about mortality. Her husband, always on business calls with Hong Kong at odd hours, shows up for meals only occasionally. At...
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Series
Language
English
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An ex-spy-turned-English professor defies accepted narratives and corrupt local authorities to investigate the murder of a wealthy family in the Chicago suburbs.
Cameron Winter was born with a strange habit of mind—the ability to recreate detailed crime scenes in his imagination and dissect the motives and encounters that produced them. And after reading a puzzling news story about a wealthy family killed in a small town in the Chicago suburbs,...
8) Mr. S
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a kindergarten class arrives for the first day at school, they are greeted only by the words Mr. S on the chalkboard and a delicious-looking sandwich, resulting in merry mayhem as the kids wonder if the sandwich is their teacher.
Author
Series
Marlitt Kaplan novels volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On a spring afternoon in Athens, Georgia, Ethan Haddock is discovered in his apartment, dead, apparently by his own hand. His fatality immediately garners media attention: not because his death reflects the troubling increase of depression and mental health issues among college students, but because the media has caught the whiff of a scandal. His professor, Dr. Verena Sobek, has been taken in for questioning, and there are rumors his death is the...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of kindly taking care of his irresistible but impossible sister and her wonderful daughter, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. His niece, Cecily--the real love of Tom's life, as his boyfriend reminded him when moving out--is embroiled in a Title IX investigation at the college where she teaches that threatens her career and relationship. And after decades of lying, his sister wants...
11) Regrets only
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Paige Lancaster, single mom and prodigal daughter, has returned to the East Coast from her prestigious, well-paid job in LA, writing for the smartest detective series on television. Something terrible happened to her back in Hollywood. Okay, two terrible things, one featuring a misplaced tire iron -- and now she's broke and homeless and living with her widowed mother and eight year old daughter, Izzy, in her hometown of Piermont, Connecticut: land...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches children to read and play music; her husband, Tasso, who paints pictures of the forest, his greatest muse; and Chara, their young daughter, whose name means joy. On the fateful day that will forever alter the trajectory of their lives, flames chase fleeing birds across the sky. The wildfire that will consume their home, and their lives as they know it,...
13) Rock bottom girl
Author
Publisher
That's What She Said Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Downsized, broke, and dumped, 38-year-old Marley sneaks home to her childhood bedroom in the town she couldn't wait to escape twenty years ago. Not much has changed in Culpepper. The cool kids are still cool. Now they just own car dealerships and live in McMansions next door. Oh, and the whole town is still talking about that homecoming she ruined her senior year. Desperate for a new start, Marley accepts a temporary teaching position. Can the girl...
Author
Publisher
37Ink/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This stunning story of the author's struggle to break free of her strict Rastafarian upbringing ruled by a father whose rigid beliefs, rage and paranoia led to violence shows how found her own power and provides a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we know little about.
Author
Series
Vega family love stories volume 2
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Saint walked away from the girl he loved to fulfill his duty. Now he’s struggling to build bridges between his drifting family, take on more responsibilities at his uncle’s construction company, figure out why his daughter refuses to talk at school and curtail his mischievous abuelo’s escalating pranks. Then she walks back into his life. Social justice advocate Lola Leon has returned to Humboldt Park for two reasons: to help care...
Author
Series
Buddy and Bea volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It is the first day of second grade and already Buddy is disappointed because his class has a new teacher, not the one he wanted, and there is a new student, Bea, who is boisterous and much too pushy for the reserved Buddy--and who insists that they are friends.
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Language
English
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A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought for our right to choose, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller. Chicago, early 1970s: Who does a woman call when she needs help? Jane. The best-known secret in the city, Jane is an underground women's health organization composed entirely of women helping women, empowering them to live lives free from the expectations...
18) Starter villain
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano...
19) I am thankful
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Series
Publisher
Golden Book
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When their teacher asks them to share what they're thankful for, each child in this wonderfully-diverse classroom mentions their favorite things in rhyme: I am thankful for my grandma's pies, her cookies, and her sweet-potato fries. I am thankful for my puppy's tricks, my comfy slippers, and kitty-cat's licks. The fun text and illustrations with inspire preschoolers and their families to share what they are most thankful for too!
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Language
English
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Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is...
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