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Pub. Date
2017
Description
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare's England to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and...
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a lady's maid to an Empire-loving aristocrat. Being repeatedly denied jobs due to the colour bar. Marrying an English man and raising two mixed-race children in suburbia. Becoming one of the first black headteachers in Britain. Beryl Gilroy's new life wasn't what she had expected. In 1952, she moved from Guyana to London to pursue her dream of teaching, only to experience Britain's racist...
3) Lucky Jim
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Publisher
Penguin
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'Lucky Jim' is the tale of university lecturer Jim Dixon who has to navigate the stumbling blocks of life at a red brick university, as he attempts to climb the social ladder to a moderately successful future.
6) Stoner
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012
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The son of a midwestern farmer, William Stoner comes to the University of Missouri in 1910 to study agriculture. Stoner tells of love and conflict, passion and responsibility against the backdrop of academic life in the early 20th century.
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Series
Fairfield Orchard volume 2
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Actor Tyler Fairfield is Spencer Hollow?s only home-grown celebrity. To Brianna MacDougall, he?s a friend who became a lover over the course of one wild night in New York City. They both agreed it was a mistake-so why can?t Bri forget? Maybe because Tyler makes her feel like the only person in a crowded room. Or because his kisses melt her like warm caramel over ice cream. Tyler back in town means temptation 24/7. Bri has more than enough on her plate...
11) Teacher trouble
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Publisher
Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Jenny is very tall for her age, and when her mum makes her dress smartly for her first day at a new school, she looks very grown-up indeed. So grown-up, in fact, that when she arrives at the school, she is mistaken for a new teacher, and left in charge of a classroom of kids.
12) Science shocker
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Publisher
Oxford U P
Pub. Date
2016
Description
The class have double trouble when Mr Hyde turns into Creature at their science fair, then another teacher also transforms into another creature.
13) Teacher
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Series
Publisher
QED
Pub. Date
2010
Description
With bright, lively illustrations and easy-to-read text, the books in this series introduce young children to the different jobs that help people in the community. This book looks at the role of a teacher.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Description
'Notes on a Scandal' is a sinister lesson in keeping your friends close and your enemies even closer. When Sheba Hart is discovered having an affair with a pupil, her colleague, Barbara Covett, becomes her chief defender. But all is not as it first seems and Sheba soon discovers that a friend can be as treacherous as any lover.
17) Elizabeth Finch
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Pub. Date
2022
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Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration - always rigorous, always thoughtful. With careful empathy, she guided her students to develop meaningful ideas and to discover their centres of seriousness. As a former student unpacks her notebooks and remembers her uniquely inquisitive mind, her passion for reason resonates through the years. Her ideas unlock the philosophies of the past, and explore key events that show us how to make sense...
18) Out to win
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Publisher
Oxford U P
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Jake and his friends have to pretend that their teacher is the school mascot when they play at an inter-school football tournament.
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Pub. Date
2024
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When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come...
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Pub. Date
2023
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Retired schoolteachers Liz, Pat and Thelma are back at their usual table at the Thirsk Garden Centre cafe with a brand-new mystery to solve. Curious white envelopes have been delivered to friends and neighbours. Inside are letters revealing the deepest secrets they have tried to hide. As one by one, careers are ended, marriages destroyed and no one is beyond suspicion, the three friends decide enough is enough. They must take matters into their own...