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Fifteen years ago, English teacher Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at the elite Fayer Academy. Living on the campus off the coast of New England, she worked to become a beloved fixture of the school – and to shelter herself and her son, Peter, from a painful secret she left behind. Then she accepts the impulsive marriage proposal of ardent widower Tom Belou, and the prescribed life Vida has constructed begins to come apart. As Peter bonds with Tom and his new step-siblings, Vida retreats further into the books she teaches.

After a devastating accident crushed my dreams, I ended up back in my hometown teaching kindergarten. I was trying to make the best of it. That is, until the world I had to leave behind, showed up in my classroom in the form of a five-year-old little girl. Her father living the exact life I almost had. Adam Jacobson is known as the bad boy of rock. While he and his band tour the world, they leave a trail of mayhem. What no one knows is behind the music is a caring, straightedge man with a secret-a daughter who the world is about to discover.

Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises.

What if everything you knew was a lie...? This house has a past that won’t stay hidden, and it is time for the dead to speak. Returning to Number 17 Coronation Square, Edie is shocked to find the place she remembers from childhood reeks of mould and decay. After her aunt Dolly’s death, Edie must clear out the home on a street known for five vicious murders many years ago, but under the dirt and grime of years of neglect lurk dangerous truths. For in this dark house there is misery, sin and dark secrets that can no longer stay hidden. The truth must come out.

Some days, it doesn't pay to get out of bed. That's what crosses Clint Evans's mind the minute he takes on the four thugs holding heiress Julie Rose hostage. It isn't the danger that has Clint in a lather, but Julie herself. The pretty, petite schoolteacher he's been hired to return to her wealthy fiance is no fainting trust-fund baby. She's more of a hellcat, one who won't be deterred when she sets her sights on something. And her sights are set on Clint. The one rule Clint never breaks is this - don't get involved with the client. He can look, but he definitely cannot touch.

Gracie Mueller is a proud mother of two and devoted wife, living with her husband Randy in upstate New York. Her life is complicated by the usual tedium and stressors and she’s settled down comfortably enough. But when Randy’s failing career as a real estate agent makes finances tight, their home goes into foreclosure, and Gracie feels she has no choice but to return to the creatively illegal and high-stakes lifestyle of her past in order to keep all that she’s worked so hard to have. Gracie has a lot to hide about where she’s from, who she is, and who she’s been.

Forever My Teacher is fiction with a scary theme of living in a void. After working on career, husband, and children, nothing seems to settle in, including a chance encounter with her high school English teacher who witnessed her humiliation at a school dance. Now adrift in her mid-40s, she is suspicious of anything that comes her way.

One night. One time. No last names. Max, teaching me everything he knows here. And everything he knows there too. Because the man who rocked my world isn't just an anonymous hookup: he's my new professor.

This audiobook is a collection of short stories about the adventures of supply teachers in London schools. It uses the medium of light romance and a lot of humor. So join them on their adventures as they manage to find 100 ways to get lost in London and still report to work on time. I would love to lead all the different lives at once. But you, dear listener, is promised one at a time. Tread with love.

Cassidy Johns is a 22-year-old college student who led a mostly sheltered life. She was raised by her grandparents and often felt self-conscious about her weight. Dedication to her studies and her passion for anthropology got her a scholarship to a prestigious program at Elton College, but a new-found passion for partying and sorority life might just be the end of all of that. With only one semester left to make up her grades and graduate, Cassidy takes a research assistant position with the renowned anthropologist and extremely attractive Dr. Trent Holmes.