Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make...
Teacher-student relationships
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Author:ALBOM, MitchSummary: -
Author:Korman, GordonSummary:The Unteachables--the misfits, delinquents, and losers in room 117 kept isolated from the student body--never thought they'd find a teacher with a worse attitude than theirs. Then they met Mr. Kermit.
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Author:Grace, AmandaSummary:Smart girls aren’t supposed to do stupid things. On her first day at Green River Community College, Madelyn Hawkins meets Bennett Cartwright, her biology professor. He’s funny. He’s interested. And he has no idea that Madelyn is only...
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Author:Kittie, FallenSummary:Fallen contends with the tumultuous task of completing her first thesis, enjoying the entrails of her latest existential crisis. Whenever she finds a spare moment, she also finds her mind wanders to an old professor who proved to leave...
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Fallen contends with the tumultuous task of completing her first thesis, enjoying the entrails of her latest existential crisis. Whenever she finds a spare moment, she also finds her mind wanders to an old professor who proved to leave...
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Author:Bekins, AlixSummary:Stephan Burke's relationship with Eric has hit a rough patch, and they can't seem to reconnect after their summer apart. Despite being good together, Stephan feels something undefinable is missing. Now starting grad school, he's meeting...
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Author:Zumas, LeniSummary:One question. What is a woman for? In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every...
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Author:HELLER, Zo͡Summary:When Sheba Hart joins St George’s as the new pottery teacher, lonely Barbara Covett senses that she has found a kindred spirit. But Barbara is not the only one drawn to Sheba. Before long Sheba is involved in an illicit...
- Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
Winner of the IODE National Chapter Award, and Horn Book Fanfare Top Ten List selection. In this brillant and poetic novel, Brian Doyle returns to the Gatineau River near Ottawa, the world of his novels Up to Low and Uncle Ronald. Mary...
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Author:Choi, Ann Y. K.Summary:This bittersweet coming-of-age novel, told through the eyes of a rebellious young girl, vividly captures the struggles of families caught between two cultures in the Korean community in Toronto in the 1980s. Family secrets, a lost...
- Author:Portelance, MarieSummary:
La valeur du respect fait l’unanimité. Pourtant, à l’aube de ce nouveau siècle, après avoir rejeté avec légitimité certaines valeurs de l’autoritarisme puis avoir testé celles qui ont mené au règne des enfants-rois, beaucoup de parents...
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Author:Sullivan, CorinneSummary:Blurring the lines of blame and moral ambiguity, Indecent by Corinne Sullivan is a smart, sexy debut audiobook. Shy, introverted Imogene Abney has always been fascinated by the elite world of prep schools, having secretly longed to...
- Author:Gifford, BlytheSummary:
To live the life of independence she craves, Jane de Weston disguises herself as a young man. She doesn't foresee her attraction to Duncan, who stirs unknown but delightful sensations in her highly receptive, very feminine body....
- Author:Robichaud, ValoisSummary:
Les parents font souvent miroiter à leurs enfants que leur entrée à l’école sera le plus beau jour de leur vie, qu’ils s’y feront des amis et découvriront une nouvelle famille ; pourtant, si certains seront effectivement ravis, adulés,...
- Author:Boris, LaurieSummary:
Art teacher Daniel Benedetto has cystic fibrosis. At thirty-four, he's already outlived his doctor's "expiration date," but that doesn't stop him from giving all he can to his students and his work. When he takes on Caitlin, his...
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Author:Coetzee, J. M.Summary: -
Author:Berman, RachelSummary:Corridor Talk contains contributions from feminist scholars from across Canada from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. When the anthropologist Paul Rainbow coined the term, ‘corridor talk,’ he used it to refer to...
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Author:MAHY, MargaretSummary:Seventeen-year-old Roland discovers that an unpopular girl in his school is studying alchemy and finds that their destiny is linked with that of a power-hungry magician.
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Author:Schwartz, Virginia FrancesSummary:Family, school, and life in general are seen through the writings of four fifth graders who have been taken out of an overcrowded New York City classroom and placed with a teacher who shows them how to write and how to believe in...
