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Kayla returns to her hometown and gets a job as head of the arts program at her high school alma mater. When she learns that the school is planning on cutting the arts department due to budget cuts, she teams up with Jordan, another teacher, to save the arts department, and falls in love in the process.

A retired football superstar (Reggie White) becomes a coach and 10th grade history teacher at an inner city school. The neighborhood thug (The Giant) recruits kids into street crime.

Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night she encounters her now retired former high school teacher "Sensei" in a local bar. Despite the 30 year age difference, their relationship develops and grows into love.

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.

With the help of his friends at the high school where he works, a school custodian studies hard to earn his high school diploma in order to save his job.

It takes place in the mid-'80s and focuses on an unorthodox high school teacher, Mr. Murphy, and his small class of nine students. Calvin Mayfield, a new student to the class, falls head over heels for a girl named Kerri Kennedy. But because of his shy nature, he struggles with building a friendship and relationship with her. So he seeks out the advice of a local inmate named Lawrence who begins giving him lessons on how to get this girl. In the meantime,...

"To Violet Greene, fashion is everything. As a successful celebrity stylist, she travels all over the world, living out her dreams. Professionally, she's thriving, but her personal life is in shambles. After surviving a very public breakup with her ex-fiancé six months ago, Violet is now determined to focus on her career. But life hands her something--or rather, someone--that might derail everything. Xavier Wright did not expect to run into his...

"The authors of this novel are the protagonists of it. They face a series of murders in the institute where they both work as professors. Claudia and Tommy, two high school students, are the first to die in a macabre way. Different members of the center seem to hide secrets that will hinder police investigation." --

"From #1 New York Times bestselling author P. C. Cast comes INTO THE MIST, the first book in a pulse-pounding dystopian duology for our times. Practical Magic meets Station Eleven in this gripping take on female power and the inevitable, destructive path of violent patriarchies. As men fall to the mist, the age of womankind begins to rise. The world as we know it ends when an attack on the U.S. unleashes bombs that deliver fire and biological destruction....

A betrayed pop star, slated to marry her pop star fiancé on stage, instead marries a stranger from the audience, a high school math teacher. Against the odds, their sham relationship develops into something real, but can their love survive the limelight?