Rakel has always been more comfortable with numbers than with people. Attending university, she strikes a relationship with her older teacher Jakob. As her academic career soars, her health declines.
Teacher-student relationships
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Author:Hveberg, KlaraSummary: -
Author:Choi, Ann Y. K.Summary:This bittersweet coming-of-age novel, told through the eyes of a rebellious young girl, vividly captures the struggles of families caught between two cultures in the Korean community in Toronto in the 1980s. Family secrets, a lost...
- Author:Ojeda, MónicaSummary:
"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?" Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage...
- Author:Portelance, MarieSummary:
La valeur du respect fait l’unanimité. Pourtant, à l’aube de ce nouveau siècle, après avoir rejeté avec légitimité certaines valeurs de l’autoritarisme puis avoir testé celles qui ont mené au règne des enfants-rois, beaucoup de parents...
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Author:Sullivan, CorinneSummary:Blurring the lines of blame and moral ambiguity, Indecent by Corinne Sullivan is a smart, sexy debut audiobook. Shy, introverted Imogene Abney has always been fascinated by the elite world of prep schools, having secretly longed to...
- Author:Gifford, BlytheSummary:
To live the life of independence she craves, Jane de Weston disguises herself as a young man. She doesn't foresee her attraction to Duncan, who stirs unknown but delightful sensations in her highly receptive, very feminine body. When...
- Author:Kang, Han.Summary:
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the "visionary" ( New York Times Book Review ) author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian...
- Author:Robichaud, ValoisSummary:
Les parents font souvent miroiter à leurs enfants que leur entrée à l’école sera le plus beau jour de leur vie, qu’ils s’y feront des amis et découvriront une nouvelle famille ; pourtant, si certains seront effectivement ravis, adulés,...
- Author:Karpyshyn, DrewSummary:
Twenty years have passed since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, demolished the ancient order devoted to the dark side and reinvented it as a circle of two: one Master to wield the power and pass on the wisdom and one...
- Author:Boris, LaurieSummary:
Art teacher Daniel Benedetto has cystic fibrosis. At thirty-four, he's already outlived his doctor's "expiration date," but that doesn't stop him from giving all he can to his students and his work. When he takes on Caitlin, his...
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Author:Coetzee, J. M.Summary:After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student.
The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee...
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Author:Berman, RachelSummary:Corridor Talk contains contributions from feminist scholars from across Canada from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. When the anthropologist Paul Rainbow coined the term, ‘corridor talk,’ he used it to refer to...
- Author:Perry, Beth, Park, Caroline, Melrose, SherriSummary:
Many of today's learning environments are dominated by technology or procedure-driven approaches that leave learners feeling alone and disconnected. The authors of Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals...
- Author:Beauvais, ClémentineSummary:
"Désespérée par le Brexit, Justine Dodgson décide de lancer une start-up secrète. Son objectif?: organiser des mariages blancs entre Français et Anglais afin que ces derniers obtiennent un passeport européen. Quand elle...
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Author:Walters, EricSummary:Lorsque le directeur de l'école annonce une nouvelle politique relative aux uniformes, les amis d'Ian font pression sur lui pour qu'il s'y oppose. Sa meilleure amie Julia l'incite fortement à protester, mais le directeur est également...
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Author:Hrdlitschka, ShelleySummary:Allegra thinks being at a performing-arts high school will change her life and make her a better dancer. But high school is still high school, complete with cliques, competition and cruelty. Allegra's refuge comes in the form of a class...
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Author:MAHY, MargaretSummary:Seventeen-year-old Roland discovers that an unpopular girl in his school is studying alchemy and finds that their destiny is linked with that of a power-hungry magician.
- Author:Christenson, TanyaSummary:
When he was five years old, Creighton's mother left. He and his father know she has started a career as a singer but not much more than that. Dad's work with a carnival means they have not set down roots anywhere for long and as a...
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Author:Schwartz, Virginia FrancesSummary:Family, school, and life in general are seen through the writings of four fifth graders who have been taken out of an overcrowded New York City classroom and placed with a teacher who shows them how to write and how to believe in...
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