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121) Sayonara, gangsters
Author
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
311, [2] p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Somewhere in a future time and place, people have no names. Lovers find this inconvenient, so they begin naming each other. The two main characters settle on the following names: the woman is the Nakajima Miyuki Song Book, and the man, who teaches at a poetry school, is Sayonara, Gangsters. Their cat, who prefers milk-and-vodka and is a great fan of Aristotle, is named Henry IV. The first of the book's three parts tells the story of Sayonara, Gangsters's...
122) The holdout: a novel
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Language
English
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Description
"It's the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect after illicit text messages are discovered between them--and Jessica's blood is found in his car. The subsequent trial taps straight into America's most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex,...
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Language
English
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"Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly ... At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil...
124) Table for five
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
391 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes it takes a leap of faith in order to soar . . . A gifted teacher, Lily Robinson adores her students, but fiercely guards her independent lifestyle. Deep inside, she is afraid of loving too deeply for fear of getting hurt. Only her best friend, Crystal, has ever been able to get close. Now an unthinkable tragedy has drawn Lily into the shattered lives of Crystal's family -- a family that suddenly needs her. Sean McGuire is a rolling stone...
125) The girl who died
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavik. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skalar seems like a small price to pay for a chance to earn some teaching credentials and...
Author
Publisher
Suma des Letras/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
622 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
"El verano de 1914 es uno de los m�as bellos que se recuerdan en la id�ilica ciudad inglesa de Rye. All�i acaba de llegar Beatrice Nash con un gran ba�ul de libros, ansia de independencia y nuevas ideas que pocos en Rye asocian a una profesora de lat�in. En un descanso de sus estudios de medicina, Hugh Grange se encuentra tambi�en en la ciudad visitando a su t�ia Agatha, una verdadera instituci�on local que se ha jugado su cuidadosamente...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Poppy y Alex. Alex y Poppy. No tienen nada en común: ella lleva vestidos estampados; él, pantalones de pinza. Ella es un espíritu aventurero; él prefiere quedarse en casa leyendo. Y, a pesar de todo, son mejores amigos. Durante la mayor parte del año viven separados —ella en Nueva York, él en su pequeño pueblo—, pero cada verano, desde hace ya una década, se toman una semana de vacaciones juntos. Hasta hace dos años, cuando todo cambió.
Ahora...
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Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Evangeline is sent to live in a small mill town in Northern England as a schoolteacher in 1871, she finds herself struggling to fit in with an unfamiliar culture. Raised with the high-class Victorian values and ideals of a sophisticated upbringing, she is unprepared for the poverty she finds in the gritty factory town of Smeatley, where the locals speak with a hard-to-understand Yorkshire accent and struggle to thrive with few resources or opportunities....
129) Alice Sadie Celine
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English
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"It's opening night, but far from glamorous. Alice is performing in a local Bay Area production of The Winter's Tale, the complete opposite of what she had envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. She doesn't have dreams of superstardom per se, but the basement theatre in a wildfire-choked town simply isn't ideal. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming. Pragmatic and serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have...
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