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The miracle worker

2001
Dramatizes Boston teacher Annie Sullivan's struggle to communicate with and teach her deaf, blind, and mute student, Helen Keller.

A bend in the road

2001
North Carolina deputy sheriff Miles Ryan, heartbroken over his wife's death in a hit-and-run accident two years earlier, considers love again when he meets his son's second-grade schoolteacher, Sarah--but he soon finds that his wife's death was anything but an accident and danger is not far away.

The miracle worker

a play for television
1957
A text of the television play, intended for reading, of Anne Sullivan Macy's attempts to teach her pupil, Helen Keller, to communicate.

Villette

2004
Lucy Snowe makes her way by teaching, as she unhappily watches John Bretton's infatuation for the flirt, Ginevra Fanshawe. She then falls in love with and transforms the professor, Monsieur Paul Emanuel.

Death on tour

2011
Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore, traveling with her cousin Kyla on a once-in-a-lifetime tour of Egypt, finds herself a reluctant detective when an imposter, a case of mistaken identity, death, and other disasters plague the journey.

A bend in the road

2005
North Carolina deputy sheriff Miles Ryan, heartbroken over his wife's death in a hit-and-run accident two years earlier, considers love again when he meets his son's second-grade schoolteacher, Sarah--but he soon finds that his wife's death was anything but an accident and danger is not far away.

Villette

1986
Lucy Snowe makes her way by teaching, as she unhappily watches John Bretton's infatuation for the flirt, Ginevra Fanshawe. 'She then falls in love with and transforms the professor, Monsieur Paul Emanuel.

Dreamers of the day

a novel
2008
Schoolteacher Agnes Shanklin sets off on the trip of a lifetime, touring Egypt and the Holy Land in 1921, and finds herself pulled into the drama surrounding the Cairo Peace Conference, where she witnesses history being made as the fate of that Arab world is decided.

Still Alice

a novel
2009
Alice Howland, a fifty-year-old cognitive psychology professor at Harvard, starts to experience early-onset Alzheimer's, initially becoming disoriented around town and eventually losing track of rooms in her home before resigning from Harvard and attempting to hold onto the severe change in her life.

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