"For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why? All she wants is for life to get back to normal, but normal is looking hard to come by. She's thirty-eight and hobbles with a cane. Her first student interaction...

A demure kindergarten teacher with dreams of Nashville stardom makes a difficult choice when she reunites with a smitten and wildly attractive rancher during an annual western-themed Christmas ball that launches a holiday season of romance and promise. Conner Branch hasn't stopped thinking about the sultry singer he spotted on stage during last year's Cowboy Christmas Ball. Imagine his surprise when he meets Megan Carson, a demure kindergarten teacher...

"USA Today bestselling author Samantha Downing teaches all the wrong lessons in her latest sneaky thriller about a calculating teacher in a privileged private school who knows he has the power to make or break your kid's future...and he uses it.... Teddy Crutcher has just won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest. He says his wife couldn't be more proud--though no one has seen her in a while. But Teddy...

After tragedy strikes his team, college basketball coach Lucca Romano arrives in Eternity Springs to reassess his life. It seems nothing can breach his wall of guilt - except maybe a vibrant new neighbour who won't give up on him. Schoolteacher Hope Montgomery has to believe in miracles because giving up would mean crumbling under the greatest loss a parent can endure. Understanding Lucca's suffering, she sets out to draw him from his solitary shell....

At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her understand and overcome her problem.

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful artist, mother and lover. She has instead become the “woman upstairs,” a reliable friend and neighbor always on the fringe...

Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment - Book 3

The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Germany.

Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency,...

Life can change in a heartbeat… When high school English teacher Richard Boyle comes face-to-face with an ex-student determined to commit an atrocity, his whole word changes. Thanks to his quick thinking, Richard averts a major tragedy and is hailed as a hero, with his face splashed across the media. But not all the attention coming his way is good… Somewhere out there, a memory is triggered by someone watching the news of the incident. A plan...

"When Miss Daisy returns to Ella Mentry School as a substitute teacher, the kids are in for a weird and wacky day of not learning about math, writing, the weather, and more"--

Details the many things that teachers cannot do, from buying their own apples to going down the tube slide at recess.