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The miracle worker

2002
William Gibson's play about teacher Annie Sullivan's determined quest to give twelve-year-old Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute, the gift of language.

Esther's pillow

2001
Margaret Chambers returns to her hometown to teach in the small, one-room school building, but the God-fearing citizens are threatened by Margaret, and their plans to run her out of town take a dangerous turn.

Witch mayor

2013
Hank and Gus want to investigate the legend that the Ravens Pass city hall was built over a cellar with a witch sealed inside it, and a school field trip seems like the perfect opportunity, but the witch may be waiting for them.

Notes on a scandal

what was she thinking?
2006
When a scandal erupts at the private school Barbara Covett teaches at, Barbara tries to defend her friend, Sheba Hart, who has been accused of having an illicit affair with an underage male student, but her efforts soon reveal not only Sheba's secrets, but Barbara's as well.

Villette

2001

The miracle worker

1975
Contains the script for the play about blind, deaf, and mute Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan.

The crazy school

2008
Madeline Dare becomes a teacher at a boarding school for disturbed teenagers in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts and discovers that the academy hides a dark secret that could kill her if she does not join forces with a small group of rebel students.

Houses of stone

1993
English professor Karen Holloway searches for the true identity of an unknown author, tracking the provenance of the manuscript to Virginia's historic Tidewater region.

The Bront? project

a novel of passion, desire, and good PR
2005
After her fiance leaves her, scholar Sara Frost is forced to re-examine her views on love and romance and question her life's work, searching for the lost love letters of Charlotte Bronte.

The prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1984
A teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh, Scotland, Miss Jean Brodie was a woman of ideas, wit, and charm who had a lover. The students she chose as her special friends were called the "Brodie set." One of them would betray her.

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