At the blustery Cornwall coast, Emma Smallwood and her widowed father take up residence with a baronet and his four sons. As Emma begins teaching the two youngest boys, she becomes plagued by mysterious events. Vowing to solve this...
Tutors and tutoring
- Author:Klassen, JulieSummary:
- Author:Mangum, Kay LynnSummary:
Kathy Colton's brother, Brett, died of leukemia when he was seventeen and she only two. At age 16 she discovers a journal Brett wrote especially for her. Brett's story is interwoven with her own, as she is mortified to be assigned to...
- Author:Hodgins, JackSummary:
The Master of Happy Endings is a powerful new novel about memory, belonging, helping others, and the vagaries of the human heart. It is also a compelling story about how a man in his late seventies manages to conjure one more great...
- Author:Desai, KiranSummary:
Himalayas, 1986. Retired judge Jemubhai Patel lives with his cook and sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Sai. An Indian-Nepalese insurgency makes Jemubhai confront his past and interrupts Sai's romance with her Nepali tutor. Meanwhile...
- Author:McDonald, MeganSummary:
When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
- Author:Erno, JeffSummary:
2nd Edition Jeff Irwin is short, timid, and studious. A bit of a social outcast, he lives quietly in the shadows of the popular kids at his school, his life ruled by his ever-present fear of rejection or failure. Enter high school...
- Author:Scott, JessicaSummary:
Stay focused. Get a job. Save her father’s life. Beth Lamont knows far too much about the harsh realities of life that her gilded classmates have only read about in class. She’ll do whatever it takes to take care of her father, even if...