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Hollywood Is like High School with Money

Zoey Dean - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

Twenty-four-year old Taylor Henning has just landed her dream job as an assistant at a major movie studio. But when her catty coworkers trick her into almost getting fired, she realizes that the old saying "Hollywood is like school with money" just may be true. The thing is, Taylor...
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Sins Out of School (Dorothy Martin Mysteries, No. 8)

Jeanne M. Dams - Walker & Co
Format: Hardcover

Yearning for a traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner, expatriate American and amateur sleuth Dorothy Martin finds her plans for her feast threatened when she is asked to assist at the local school after teacher Amanda Doyle, the prime suspect in the murder of her husband, mysteriously...
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Miss Hillary Schools a Scoundrel

Samantha Grace - Sourcebooks Casablanca
Format: eBook

HE'LL NEVER SETTLE FOR ONE WOMAN...AND SHE WON'T SETTLE FOR HEARTBREAK...Debonair bachelor Lord Andrew Forest lives for pleasure and offers no apologies. But he receives a dose of his own medicine when his family's entrancing houseguest beds him, then disappears without so much as a by-your-leave....
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Crime School: A Mallory Novel

Carol O'Connell - Putnam Adult
Format: Hardcover

New York City policewoman Kathy Mallory investigates the murder of a prostitute named Sparrow, a woman who had taken her in many years ago only to betray her, as part of a crime that seems to mimic one that happened two decades earlier. 60,000 first printing.
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School Days

Robert B. Parker - Putnam Adult
Format: Hardcover

Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting during which seven people were killed, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment and faces difficult obstacles in the wake...
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The Crazy School

Cornelia Read - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

"Madeline Dare is like that wild smart-mouthed friend who blows into town, sweeps you off into a knife-edge adventure you never saw coming, and makes you laugh out loud even at the darkest, most intense moments. I can't wait to meet her again."--Tana French, New York Times bestselling...
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Tales from a Village School

Read, Miss. - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover

Our thirty-ninth book by Miss Read is a delightful collection of forty stories, first published forty years ago in England and collected here for the first time in book form. Based on Miss Read's (the real-life Dora Saint) own lifelong involvement with country schools, these stories...
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The School at Thrush Green

Read, Miss. - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Chronicles the paths of two schoolteachers, Dorothy Watson and Agnes Fogerty, on the brink of retirement, as they adjust to a new home, face new challenges, and carry on with village life
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Night School: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The incomparable hero of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back takes readers to school in his most explosive novel yet. After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, discover the thrillers that The New York Times calls "utterly addictive."...
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Joy School

Elizabeth Berg - Random House
Format: Book

In this exquisite new novel by bestselling writer Elizabeth Berg, a young woman falls in love -- and learns how sorrow can lead to an understanding of joy.

Katie, the narrator, has relocated to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father, and she feels very much...
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The School of Night: A Novel

Louis Bayard - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

An ancient mystery, a lost letter, and a timeless love unleash a long-buried web of intrigue that spans four centuriesIn the late sixteenth century, five brilliant scholars gather under the cloak of darkness to discuss God, politics, astronomy, and the black arts. Known as the School of Night,...
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The School of Essential Ingredients

Erica Bauermeister - G. P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Gathering at Lillian's Restaurant for a weekly cooking class, a young mother struggles with the growing demands of her family, an Italian kitchen designer works to adapt to life in America, and a widower mourns the loss of his wife to breast cancer. 50,000 first printing.
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The School on Heart's Content Road

Carolyn Chute - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Since her astonishing debut, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, best-selling novelist Carolyn Chute has been heralded as a passionate voice of the underclass, earning comparisons to Faulkner, Steinbeck, and Flannery O'Connor. Her first novel in ten years returns to Egypt, and is a rousing,...
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My Education

Susan Choi - Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the author of American Woman and A Person of InterestRegina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill. Hes said to lie in the dark...
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The Education of Dixie Dupree

Donna Everhart - Kensington Books
Format: Print book

In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for her mama, Evie's sake - to explain away a bruise brought on by her quick-as-lightning temper. And sometimes the lies are to spite Evie, who longs to leave her unhappy marriage in Perry County,...
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Class

Lucinda Rosenfeld - Little
Format: Print book

A satirical novel about a mother whose life spirals out of control when she's forced to rethink her bleeding heart liberal ideals For idealistic forty-something Karen Kipple, it isn't enough that she works full-time in the non-profit sector, aiding an organization that helps hungry children...
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The Italian Teacher

TOM RACHMAN - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"The Italian Teacher is a marvel--an entertaining, heartbreaking novel about art, family, loyalty, and authenticity. Tom Rachman is an enormously talented writer--this book is alive, from the first page to the last." Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of Mrs. FletcherA...
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The English Teacher

Lily King - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

With superb craftsmanship, effortlessly suspenseful pacing, and tenderly observed insight, Lily King expertly limns the life of an independent single mother and her fifteen-year-old son, who is on a circuitous path toward a truth she has long concealed from him. Fifteen years ago Vida Avery...
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Evening Class

Maeve Binchy - Delacorte Press
Format: Book

Maeve Binchy has captured the hearts of readers with her spectacular national bestsellers Circle of Friends, The Glass Lake, and This Year It Will be Different. Now she dazzles us once again with a new novel that is filled with her signature warmth, wit, and unforgettable characters--a...
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The Abstinence Teacher

Tom Perrotta - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise kids.  It's got the proverbial good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market.  It's the kind of place where parents are involved in their children's lives, where no opportunity for enrichment goes unexplored. Ruth...
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The Piano Teacher: A Novel

Janice Y. K. Lee - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

"A rare and exquisite story . . . Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin." - Elizabeth Gilbert. The New York Times bestseller . Janice Y.K. Lees latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from Penguin In the sweeping tradition...
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The Four Books: A Novel

Carlos Rojas - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

From master storyteller Yan Lianke, winner of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize and a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, The Four Books is a powerful, daring novel of the dog-eat-dog psychology inside a labor camp for intellectuals during Maos Great Leap Forward. A renowned...
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