Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"A middle-aged poet finds herself adrift in her marriage and life now that her child has moved away to college. Her job teaching Greek myth to high school boys at a prestigious New York City academy has its small pleasures-her students offer surprising insights to stories she's studied for decades-but as her debut poetry collection approaches publication she starts to notice the seams of her life becoming unloosed. The chorus of voices in her life...
64) Class dismissed
Author
Language
English
Description
"'Student Gives Teacher the Finger' screams the Post headline after Patrick Lynch shuts--slams?--his classroom door on the hand of Josh Mishkin, the learning-disabled son of two NYU professors. Josh's injury casts Patrick, thirty-year-old son of the Midwest, down a New York City rabbit hole of Board of Ed bureaucracy and union politics. Transformed into an unwilling celebrity by his fellow inmates in that teacher purgatory, the Rubber Room, Mr. Lynch...
65) Samaritan
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him beaten nearly to death. Ray refuses to name his assailant, which makes him intensely interesting to Detective Nerese Ammons, a friend from childhood, who now sets out to unlock the secret of his reticence....
66) Half nelson
Language
English
Description
A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
67) God's not dead 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When high school history teacher Grace Wesley is asked a question about Jesus in class, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble. The ensuing epic court case could expel God from the classroom once and for all.
69) Our Miss Brooks
Series
Language
English
Description
A teacher in a high school tries to date the shy biology teacher while constantly butting heads with the principal and renting a room in someone else's house.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Brandi Collins is a Nashville teacher dumped at the alter. She now plans to transform herself by losing weight. But her neighbor, Adam Ellison, is trying to win the International Chocolate Pastry Competition and the smells from his condo interfere with her plans. What will happen when Brandi discovers the struggling pastry chef is really the heir to a multimillion dollar corporate empire?
71) The green
Language
English
Description
The Green tells the story of a teacher at a Connecticut private high school, who thinks he can live a simple, harmonious domestic existence with his partner Daniel, a caterer. But Michael's world is turned upside down when he is accused of engaging in 'inappropriate behavior' with a male student. With his job, relationship, and freedom in jeopardy, Michael must confront the suspicions of his co-workers and Daniel's doubts about his partner's innocence....
72) Flower
Language
English
Description
Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a sassy seventeen-year-old living with her single mom Laurie and mom's new boyfriend, Bob. When Bob's son, Luke, moves in with the family after a stint in rehab, Erica finds her life overwhelmed. With Luke and her sidekicks, Kala and Claudine, in tow, Erica acts out by exposing a dark secret of high school teacher Will, with perilous results. Their teenage kicks become a catalyst for growing up in unexpected...
73) Drillbit Taylor
Language
English
Description
Ryan, Wade and Emmit attend their first day of high school and immediately meet up with Filkins, the school bully who comes off like a little Hannibal Lecter. Before they become completely engulfed in Filkins' reign of terror, they seek out some protection by placing an ad in Soldier of fortune magazine. Their best response and the cheapest comes from Drillbit Taylor, a down-on-his-luck soldier of furtune who lives a homeless existence on the beach....
74) Blame
Language
English
Description
It’s the start of a new year at a small suburban high school. Abigail (Quinn Shephard) is an outcast who seeks solace in the worlds of the characters she reads about, much to the amusement of her manipulative classmate, Melissa (Nadia Alexander). When an intriguing new drama teacher, Jeremy (Chris Messina) casts Abigail over Melissa in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Abigail’s confidence blooms, and soon her relationship with Jeremy begins to...
75) The faculty
Language
English
Description
A unique thriller that blends teenage angst, cutting edge comedy, and out of this world special effects. Bonding together to save the world are a group of high school students who make a terrifying discovery that their teachers are aliens.
77) Miss Stevens
Language
English
Description
Stuck at a crossroads in her personal life, it falls on Miss Stevens to chaperone three of her students, Billy, Margot, and Sam, on a weekend trip to a drama competition. Exploring the fine line between being a grown up and being a kid, this film is about students becoming teachers and teachers coming to realize that the messiness of youth never really goes away.
79) Dangerous minds
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an ex-Marine becomes a high school teacher, she is assigned to a tough class of inner-city teenagers.
Author
Language
English
Description
Thanks to a bully in gym class, unpopular Nate suffers a broken finger--the middle one, splinted to flip off the world. It won't be the last time a middle finger is raised on this day. Dreamer Claire envisions herself sitting in an artsy café, filling a journal, but fate has other plans. One cheerleader dates a closeted basketball star; another questions just how, as a "big girl, " she fits in. A group of boys scam drivers for beer money without...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request