The Headmaster's Wife
Title | The Headmaster's Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Christopher Greene |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2014-02-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466834242 |
An immensely talented writer whose work has been described as "incandescent" (Kirkus) and "poetic" (Booklist), Thomas Christopher Greene pens a haunting and deeply affecting portrait of one couple at their best and worst. Inspired by a personal loss, Greene explores the way that tragedy and time assail one man's memories of his life and loves. Like his father before him, Arthur Winthrop is the Headmaster of Vermont's elite Lancaster School. It is the place he feels has given him his life, but is also the site of his undoing as events spiral out of his control. Found wandering naked in Central Park, he begins to tell his story to the police, but his memories collide into one another, and the true nature of things, a narrative of love, of marriage, of family and of a tragedy Arthur does not know how to address emerges. Luminous and atmospheric, bringing to life the tight-knit enclave of a quintessential New England boarding school, the novel is part mystery, part love story and an exploration of the ties of place and family. Beautifully written and compulsively readable, The Headmaster's Wife stands as a moving elegy to the power of love as an antidote to grief. "A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of The Headmaster's Wife with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls "An accomplished and artful storyteller, Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed "Greene's genre-bending novel of madness and despair evokes both the predatory lasciviousness of Nabokov's classic, Lolita, and the anxious ambiguity of Gillian Flynn's contemporary thriller, Gone Girl (2012)." --Booklist
Confessions of a Headmaster
Title | Confessions of a Headmaster PDF eBook |
Author | Paul F. Cummins |
Publisher | Xeno Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781939096401 |
In this entertaining and inspiring memoir, renowned educator Paul Cummins candidly shares his journey from privileged kid and ivory-tower scholar to hands-on progressive educator, working to achieve social justice through education for all youth: from children of celebrities to foster and incarcerated youth and those facing sometimes unimaginable circumstantial hurdles to education and accomplishment--proving time and again that all children can succeed given appropriate support.
I MARRIED JOANNY CONFESSIONS OF A TAPLINE MASTER
Title | I MARRIED JOANNY CONFESSIONS OF A TAPLINE MASTER PDF eBook |
Author | DUANE THE GREAT WRITER |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 541 |
Release | 2014-06-18 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1312288604 |
"ALL Distortion Shows Up..." Paul Twitchell had The TruHeart for What IS Real. Darwin Gross followed Paul, and he became an embezzler, then it was HarOld's turn, and he has become the greedy TapLine Master of the Alien Krone Korporation, who Married Joanny, the Reptilian Influence sent from the Kalaum God to takeover what Paul so skilfully created. Anyone can See for themselves by doing The NU-U Sessions and contacting Rebazar & Paul on The RealSide LifeIS. LifeIS AlwaysNU, never Old and Outdated, but most of the Dumbed Down Humans on this planet keep 'thinking' in the terms of other 'Time Zones.' History and tradition does have its place, but not with the TruReality LifeIS, THE ALLIS. Those who want to stay with the Gods of Men have the right to do so, but what is still being marketed as 'spiritual' is nothing more than silly Earthly Korporations that have TapLine Masters with Reptilian Alien Joanny Mates. The Reptilian Alien Mothership hovers above the Krone Korporation. www.DuaneTheGreatWriter.info
Confessions from the Principal's Chair
Title | Confessions from the Principal's Chair PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Myers |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2009-07-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0802721451 |
In Denver, Robin (a.ka. Bird) is in with the cool clique. They wear the same clothes, talk the same way, and pick on the same girls. But when her Mom hears about a cruel prank against a less popular girl, she isn't going to tolerate the Queen Bee behavior. Within 24 hours, she pulls up stakes and moves them both to Prairie Dog, Oklahoma. Bird is positively furious, and she's going get revenge on her hippy artist mother. In fact, revenge is the only thing keeping her going in the remote town. How she's going to get it, though, she's not sure yet. When she goes to register at the local middle school, she's mistaken for the interim school principal. Who is Bird to correct the mistake when a prank like this will really get payback on her mom? Though she won't be able to pull this off forever, Bird's determined to make her mark on the middle school before she's found out. But life in the principal's chair is going to give her quite an unexpected change in perspective.
Confessions of a Headmaster
Title | Confessions of a Headmaster PDF eBook |
Author | Paul F. Cummins |
Publisher | Red Hen Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2015-09-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 159709546X |
“Both a memoir and manifesto for education reform . . . chronicles [Cummins’s] remarkable career as a teacher, headmaster, and school founder.” —Kirkus Reviews In this entertaining and inspiring memoir, renowned educator Paul Cummins candidly shares his journey from privileged kid and ivory-tower scholar to hands-on progressive educator, working to achieve social justice through education for all youth: from children of celebrities to foster and incarcerated youth and those facing sometimes unimaginable circumstantial hurdles to education and accomplishment—proving time and again that all children can succeed given appropriate support. Confessions of a Headmaster is “the story of the birth of the kind of open, enlightened, diverse education we all take for granted today, told in a warm and engaging way by the visionary in our midst who made it happen” (Victoria Shorr, cofounder of the Archer School for Girls and of the Pine Ridge Girls’ School). “The story of a man who brought the romance back into teaching at a time when the field of education is a field of constant national controversy, and our most popular books have titles with militarist references, such as The Teacher Wars.” —Mona Simpson, national bestselling author of Anywhere But Here “As Paul Cummins once remarked, ‘Passion without intelligence is of limited value’—and the inverse is also true—for who would want intelligence without passion? In Confessions, we see what can happen when these two qualities work in sync!” —John Densmore, drummer for the Doors
The Lost Wife; Or, A Husband's Confession
Title | The Lost Wife; Or, A Husband's Confession PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Henry Hazlewood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1871 |
Genre | |
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Confessions from the Principal's Kid
Title | Confessions from the Principal's Kid PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Mellom |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2017-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1328698998 |
During the school day, fifth-grader Allie West is an outsider. Everyone knows the principal's kid might tattle to her mom! But after school, Allie is an insider. She's friendly with the janitor, knows the shortest routes around the building, and hangs out with the Afters, a group of misfits whose parents are teachers at their school. Although Allie secretly loves her insider life, she's sick of being an outsider—so she vows to join the Pentagon, the popular math team led by her ex–best friend. But can Allie change her status without betraying where she really belongs?