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The Headmaster's Wife

Author : Thomas Christopher Greene
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466834242
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Headmaster's Wife written by Thomas Christopher Greene and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The Headmaster's Wife

Author : Thomas Christopher Greene
Publisher : Corvus
ISBN 13 : 9781782391739
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book The Headmaster's Wife written by Thomas Christopher Greene and published by Corvus. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting novel of obsession and betrayal, told from the perspective of a man who may have committed a horrific act of violence. Arthur Winthrop is a headmaster at an elite school. When he is arrested for an act that is incredibly out of character, he confesses to a much more serious crime.

The Headmaster's Wife

Author : Jane Haddam
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 142990495X
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Headmaster's Wife written by Jane Haddam and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark DeAvecca is a brilliant fifteen-year-old in his first year at the exclusive private academy, Windsor School. Mark, the son of noted commentator Liz Tolliver, grew up in very different circumstances and could not fit in less well. With its hundred-year-old history, Windsor is rife with tradition, nasty rumors, petty jealousies and long buried resentments. The most savage of those unpleasant undercurrents swirl around the headmaster's wife - currently rumored, with good reason, to be having an affair with Mark's roommate, a street-tough scholarship student. Mark, however, has his own problems - he feels himself slowly losing his grip on reality and the staff widely believes him to be just another prep school burnout headed for an unpleasant end. So when Mark returns from a late-winter ramble about the campus to find his roommate dead, hanging from the ceiling of their room, he's reached the end of his own metaphorical rope. Even though he's no longer sure about the line between fantasy and reality, Mark is fairly certain that something is going on at the school and there's more to the death than the official declaration of suicide. With nowhere else to turn, Mark calls retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian to ask for help. Sensing the crisis in Mark's dulled voice, Demarkian arrives to find Mark in dire physical and mental state, and a school only too eager to sweep his roommate's death under the rug. In what quickly becomes one of the most complex and challenging cases in his career, Demarkian must untangle truth from fiction, fantasy from reality, before another life is lost.

The Headmaster's Wife

Author : Thomas Christopher Greene
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250038944
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Headmaster's Wife written by Thomas Christopher Greene and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Found wandering naked and mentally traumatized in Central Park, the headmaster of an elite boarding school imparts a story that is shaped by complicated memories, the evolution of a loving relationship, and a tragedy he cannot comprehend.

The Headmaster's Wife

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504081110
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Headmaster's Wife written by Stephen Birmingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural shifts of the late twentieth century reveal dark secrets at an elite prep school, in this posthumously discovered novel by the author of “Our Crowd.” Located in bucolic Connecticut, the Crittenden School has long held a venerable reputation as one of New England’s premier preparatory schools. However, times are changing, and that change is coming to Crittenden. In the midst of social upheaval, the headmaster’s wife, Clarissa Spotswood, is thrust into faculty and student intrigues—a role for which she is woefully unprepared. Clarissa has spent the past thirty years quietly standing by her husband, Headmaster Hobart Spotswood, projecting the image of the model society wife. But this meticulous façade is shattered when Clarissa uncovers horrific events within the school’s insular community. And interspersed with the drama is Clarissa’s own journal entries revealing a secret history of her own. Previously unpublished, The Headmaster’s Wife was written by the late Stephen Birmingham, author of notable works such as Real Lace and Life at the Dakota. Discovered after Birmingham’s death, the manuscript was transcribed and edited by his son, Carey Birmingham.

The Headmasters Papers

Author : Richard A. Hawley
Publisher : Garrett County Press
ISBN 13 : 1891053973
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Headmasters Papers written by Richard A. Hawley and published by Garrett County Press. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Greeve is the headmaster. The 30 years of his life at The Wells School have been rich, challenging, and full of meaning. But now John Greeve's precisely ordered world is crumbling. The values he so passionately believes in are being threatened by forces he cannot accept. John Greeve is a man at the crossroads fighting for the decency of his school, for the survival of his family-and, finally, stripped of everything, for his very life.

The Headmaster's Wife

Author : Richard A. Hawley
Publisher : Paul S Eriksson
ISBN 13 : 9780839731931
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Headmaster's Wife written by Richard A. Hawley and published by Paul S Eriksson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Greeve, the wife of the headmaster of a well-established boarding school and, outwardly an accomplished and finished person, is not at all prepared for the grip of a mortal illness.

The Headmaster's Wager

Author : Vincent Lam
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307367916
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Headmaster's Wager written by Vincent Lam and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Giller Prize winner, internationally acclaimed, and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War. Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of the Chen Academy. He is fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, and quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country. He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, choosing instead to read the faces of his opponents at high-stakes mahjong tables. But when his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections and wealth and is forced to send him away. In the loneliness that follows, Percival finds solace in Jacqueline, a beautiful woman of mixed French and Vietnamese heritage, and Laing Jai, a son born to them on the eve of the Tet offensive. Percival's new-found happiness is precarious, and as the complexities of war encroach further and further into his world, he must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see. Blessed with intriguingly flawed characters moving through a richly drawn historical and physical landscape, The Headmaster's Wager is a riveting story of love, betrayal and sacrifice.

The Headmaster Ritual

Author : Taylor Antrim
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547561512
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Headmaster Ritual written by Taylor Antrim and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2007-07-09 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor Antrim’s novel is a darkly comic, clear-eyed look at hidden worlds whose complexities and rules can be understood only from inside: the insular hothouse of boarding school, the thorny dynamics between father and son, and the self-delusion of blind ideological commitment. Dyer Martin, a new history teacher at the prestigious Britton School, arrives in the fall ready to close the door on the failures and disappointments of his past: a disastrous first job, a broken relationship, and acute uncertainty about his future. James, a lonely senior, just wants to make it through his last year unscathed, avoiding both the brutal hazing of dorm life and the stern and unforgiving eye of his father, the school’s politically radical headmaster, Edward Wolfe. Soon, however, both Dyer and James are inescapably drawn into Wolfe’s hidden agenda for Britton, as the headmaster orders Dyer to set up and run a Model UN Club for students. As the United States moves steadily toward a conflict with an increasingly hostile North Korea—whose pursuit of nuclear technology is pushing the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon—Wolfe’s political fervor begins to consume him, and he sets in motion a plan that will jeopardize his job, his school, and even the life of his own son. With precisely controlled, deceptively subtle storytelling, The Headmaster Ritual is an insightful and captivating examination of the halting, complicated course young men must chart to shake off the influence of fathers—and father figures—while refining their convictions about the world and their place in it.

The Headmaster

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374168601
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book The Headmaster written by John McPhee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1966-11-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of Frank Learoyd Boyden, who came to Deerfield Academy in 1902 at the age of twenty-two and is still an influential educator there.

A Headmaster's Story

Author : Bill Schroder
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868429334
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book A Headmaster's Story written by Bill Schroder and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Schroder is the stuff of which teaching legends are made. Strict, yet kind and tolerant, he blended a magic mix of care and discipline to bring out the best in his pupils. In A Headmaster's Story, Bill shares the story of his life, offering many insights into the challenges and rewards of teaching. He describes how he was a natural leader, and that helping young people realise their potential was his life's calling. Bill also charts how his teaching philosophy developed as he taught at and led a variety of schools, including SACS, Western Province Prep, Rondebosch Boys', Westerford, Rhodes High, Pinelands High in Cape Town and York High in George. When he was appointed head of Pretoria Boys High in 1990, Bill took on the challenge of leading one of the country's top state schools and soon earned the undying admiration of pupils, parents, staff and Old Boys alike. At the end of a long and distinguished career, he did not rest on his laurels but went back into the fray, helping to mentor a struggling township high school. Here is a teacher who has left an indelible mark on thousands of pupils, from Cape Town to Pretoria.

High Rising

Author : Angela Margaret Thirkell
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book High Rising written by Angela Margaret Thirkell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "High Rising" by Angela Margaret Thirkell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

From a Common-room Window

Author : E. M. Johnstone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From a Common-room Window written by E. M. Johnstone and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Have I Done?

Author : Amanda Prowse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781852154
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book What Have I Done? written by Amanda Prowse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the million-copy bestseller Amanda Prowse, the queen of heartbreak fiction. Amanda Prowse is the author of The Coordinates Of Loss and the no.1 bestsellers Perfect Daughter, My Husband's Wife and What Have I Done? Kathryn Brooker is the headmaster's wife. While her husband spends his days disciplining unruly teenagers in the grand halls of Mountbriers Academy, Kathryn spends hers baking scones for her son's cricket match in a beautiful cottage in the manicured school grounds. In the evenings, when her husband strides home to compliment her cooking and kiss her hello – ignoring jokes from their children about grown-up lovebirds – Kathryn Brooker is the very picture of a fulfilled wife and mother. Anyone who peered through the downstairs sash window at the four figures sat easily around their scrubbed-pine kitchen table would see a happy family without a care in the world. They would envy Kathryn her perfect life. But they would be wrong. Kathryn is trapped in a nightmare. And she is about to do something to change it. Something only a truly desperate woman would do... Reviews for Amanda Prowse: 'Prowse handles her explosive subject with delicate skill... Deeply moving and inspiring' DAILY MAIL. 'Powerful and emotional family drama that packs a real punch' HEAT. 'A gut wrenching and absolutely brilliant read' IRISH SUN. 'Captivating, heartbreaking, superbly written' CLOSER. 'Very uplifting and positive, but you may still need a box (or two) of tissues' HELLO. 'An emotional, unputdownable read' RED. 'Prowse writes gritty, contemporary stories but always with an uplifting message of hope' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT.

A Separate Peace

Author : John Knowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789394752993
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book A Separate Peace written by John Knowles and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PBS's The Great American Read named it one of America's best-loved novels. A Separate Peace has been a bestseller in the United States for nearly thirty years, and it is ageless in its depiction of youth during a time when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. A Separate Peace is a horrific and brilliant fable about the dark side of adolescence set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II. Gene is an introverted, lonely intellectual. Phineas is a reckless athlete who is attractive and taunts others. Like the war itself, what happens between the two friends one summer robs these guys and their world of their innocence.

The Headmaster

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708681
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Headmaster written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted with their own personalities." More than simply a portrait of the Headmaster of Deerfield Academy, it is a revealing look at the nature of private school education in America.

The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, Book 1)

Author : Soman Chainani
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007492944
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, Book 1) written by Soman Chainani and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL is now a major motion picture from Netflix, starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, and many more! A dark and enchanting fantasy adventure for those who prefer fairytales with a twist. The first in the bestselling series.