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"A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them -- a damaged, brainy troublemaker -- and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam"--Container.
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Antoinette, a schoolteacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holiday with her married lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When she learns that Vladimir has to cancel because his wife organized a surprise hiking vacation, Antoinette decides to follow their tracks, accompanied by a protective donkey named Patrick.
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"The brilliant but idiosynchratic Professor Jasper Tempest is back. He's sharper than ever, but more troubled than before. [He] is spending even more time with the Greater Cambridge Police helping them to solve a series of complicated crimes with his unique insight and forensic analysis, from an unexplained fire in a student block to the mystery of an entire family found dead in their home. Meanwhile, some relationships develop while some fall apart....
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