Product Description: Italy, 1252Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined, in the flames of the burning stake.… Neilsville, 1978Peter Balsam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror...read more

Product Description: Spending summer in the country as guardian of her well-behaved nephew and his dog . . . rest and relaxation, swimming... What could be a more perfect situation for a burned-out teacher trying to recuperate from a year in which she was assaulted by a high school student and cheated on by her fianc? But a storm is raging the night Signey Sorvino and Bennie Clark arrive at the secluded country home, and their shocking discovery sparks a summer neither could have imagined...read more

Product Description: A forty-year-old conservative, Vera is a republican lesbian librarian from a rural county in Virginia who each day just keeps doing what she’s always done. She wakes up, treks through her "shelving in the 900’s" days, and puts milk bones out for the dog each night before curling up to read a book and watch the world through her window...read more

Product Description: Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one evening he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim...read more

Product Description: A Theory of Great Men is the humorous, fast-paced story of an irreverent, flawed man who has a talent for accumulating both protégés and enemies. George Cavaliere, a veteran high school history teacher, has many attributes of a brilliant educator...read more

Product Description: Thirteen-year-old October Schwartz is new in town; short on friends and the child of a clinically depressed science teacher, she spends her free time in the Sticksville Cemetery and it isn’t long before she befriends the ghosts of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past...read more

Struggling with mounting debt and a need to become independent from her parents as her thirtieth birthday approaches, Natalie tells fantastical tales to the men she meets to cover up her undesirable traits, a practice that backfires when she meets a man she actually likes. By the author of Been There, Done That. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: High-school teacher Issa McKendrick had plenty of reasons to swear off men. With a baby on the way after a bad breakup, she retreated to her hometown to lick her wounds. Only to have two more men knocking at the door—her delicious landlord, Hutch Kincaid, and his adorable little boy...read more

Product Description: While driving to a charming village tucked away deep in the Cascade Mountains of eastern Washington, where she is to begin a new job teaching high school English, Katrina Burton picks up a young hitchhiker who turns out to be drunk and predatory...read more

Product Description: While others might long for city lights, Claire Connors is content in Hidden Falls teaching high school and serving on every town committee. But when a dwindling population threatens to close the school and change the town irrevocably, Claire knows it'll take a small miracle to keep her hometown alive...read more

Kristina Riggle, the acclaimed author of Real Life & Liars, returns with a thought-provoking novel inspired by real-life eventsSeventeen-year-old Morgan Monetti shocks her parents and her community with one simple act: She chooses to stand by the man everyone else believes has exploited her—popular high school teacher TJ Hill. Quietly walking across a crowded courtroom to sit behind TJ, and not beside her parents, she announces herself as the adult she believes herself to be.But her mother, Dinah, wants justice. Dinah is a fighter, and she believes with all her heart and soul that TJ is a man who took advantage of her daughter. He is a criminal who should be brought to justice, no matter what the cost to his family.Rain, TJ's wife, is shocked that her handsome, loving, respected husband has been accused of a terrible crime. But has her desperation to start a family closed her eyes to the fault lines in her marriage? And can she face the painful truths about herself and her husband?Told from the perspectives of these three remarkable women, The Whole Golden World navigates the precarious territory between childhood and adulthood, raising questions about love and manipulation, marriage and motherhood, consent and responsibility. It's a novel both shocking and unforgettable in its power.

Product Description: “This is one to read with the light on.” ―Publishers Weekly on She Can ScreamAbby Foster just wants a quiet, normal life. The high school teacher left everything about her past behind when she moved to the mountains of Pennsylvania, but only three years after surviving a brutal attack, Abby awakes in an icy river, facing death once again...read more

Product Description: A Library Journal Best Book of 2013 Samuel Cooke knows most women wouldn?t give him a second glance. He?s the cripple with crutches, the computer nerd every female feels compelled to mother. So when he leaves a lucrative career to teach high-school programming, romance isn?t on his radar...read more

Product Description: Paladin Smith is a teacher, enlisted to go to war-threatened Crimea to find a former student and bring her home. But when his simple mission thrusts him headlong into an international conspiracy, Paladin finds himself on a collision course with destiny and the powers of Eastern Europe...read more

Product Description: Learning To Love…Again Idyllic Goose Harbor, Michigan, offers a fresh start for broken-hearted Paige Windom. In addition to securing a teaching job at the high school, she'll fulfill her dream of helping at-risk teens in a nearby inner-city mentoring program...read more

Product Description: "Funny, sassy, and sexy. Reading Shannon Richard is pure pleasure!" -- Jill Shalvis, New York Times bestselling author Some things you don't dare let go . . . Melanie O'Bryan knows life is too short to be afraid of taking chances...read more

Product Description: Tired of their high school teaching jobs and discouraged by their failed attempts at conceiving a child, Mark and Fran Finley decide they need a change in their lives. Abruptly, they leave their friends and family in suburban New Jersey to begin anew as innkeepers on a secluded lake in the Adirondack Mountains...read more

Product Description: In the lakeside resort town of Port Manitou, Michigan, dedicated teacher and running coach Neil Kazenzakis shoulders responsibilities that would break a lesser man: a tragic accident has left his wife seriously debilitated, he cares for his mother-in-law who suffers from dementia, and he’s raising his teenage son, Chris, on his own...read more

Product Description: When Hieu Nguyen, a Portland high school teacher, is accused of sexual misconduct by two of his students, his close friend and colleague Nate Davis tries to lend support. But Nate has recently been assaulted by a former student in the school parking lot, an event that brings on not only sharp anxiety, but a final push into a long-deferred quest to find out what happened to his uncle, a drifter and a Vietnam veteran...read more