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c2011., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Hay Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day. Connie's niece, Anne, tells the story. Impelled by curiosity about her dynamic, adventurous aunt and her more conventional mother, she revisits Connie's past and her mother's broken childhood. In the process, she unravels the enigma of Parley Burns and the mysterious (and unrelated) deaths of two young girls. As the novel moves deeper into their lives, the triangle of principal, teacher, student opens out into other emotional triangles <U+2013> aunt, niece, lover; mother, daughter, granddaughter <U+2013> until a sudden, capsizing love thrusts Anne herself into a newly independent life. This spellbinding tale <U+2013> set in Saskatchewan and the Ottawa Valley <U+2013> crosses generations and cuts to the bone. It probes the roots of obsessive love and hate, how the hurts and desires of childhood persist and are passed on as if in the blood. It lays bare the urgency of discovering what we were never told about the past. And it celebrates the process of becoming who we are in a world full of startling connections that lie just out of sight."--Inside jacket flap.
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-- Beautiful peoplec2009., Adult, Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic Beautiful P Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A modern take on Madame de La Fayette's classic novel, "The Princess of Cleves".
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By Pym, Barbarac1985., Dutton Call No: Fic Pym Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2002., Pantheon Books Call No: Fic Jin Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More...
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2012, p2011., Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic Detachment Edition: Widescreen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Henry Barthes is an educator with a talent to connect with his students. Yet as a substitute teacher he hides his gift to avoid emotional connections. When an assignment places him at a school with a burned-out administration and an apathetic student body, he becomes a role model as a teacher. His emotional bond with the students and teachers help him see he is not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.
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2022., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Bar Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on Culture and Civilization, taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages; we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this private, withholding yet commanding woman.
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2007., Adult, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic History B Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.
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2024., Adult, Universal Call No: NEW DVD Fic Holdovers Edition: Collector's edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
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-- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell2004., Bloomsbury Call No: Fic Cla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2002., McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Call No: Fic Cum Edition: Emblem editions. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2012., General, distributed exclusively in Canada by Les Films Séville, an affiliate of Entertainment One Call No: DVD Fic Monsieur Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "While going through his own personal tragedy, Bachir Lazhar, a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, is hired as a substitute in an elementary school after the abrupt death of a teacher. With great sensitivity and humour, Monsieur Lazhar depicts the encounter of two distant worlds: that of an immigrant and a group of shaken but endearing kids who, together, will transcend their losses."--Container.
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2020., Adult, William Morrow Call No: Fic Rus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager--and who professed to worship only her--may be far different from what she has always believed? Alternating between Vanessa's present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself."--Publisher.
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c2013., General, Viking Call No: Fic Cho Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster. Regina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill. But no one has warned Regina about his exceptional physical beauty-- or his charismatic, volatile wife. Regina's mistakes only begin in the bedroom, and end-- if they do-- fifteen years in the future and thousands of miles away. By turns erotic and completely catastrophic, Regina's misadventures demonstrate what can happen when the chasm between desire and duty is too wide to bridge.