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61) Mothering Sunday
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
With her employers out, a maid in 1920s England has a rare chance to meet with her secret lover, the son from a nearby manor. Class issues keep them apart, and although he is about to leave to marry a suitable wife, the events of this weekend could change their lives -- and love -- forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Train enthusiast Francis Humphreys took his last breath while relatives and neighbors visited downstairs. But if everyone was downstairs, who could have stolen into Uncle Francis's study, killed him, and escaped? Mrs. Jeffries will have to lend her downstairs common sense to this upstairs murder mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The housekeeper for archaeologist Max Mallowan and his famous wife, Agatha Christie, former Army nurse Phyllida Bright is faced with murder and mayhem during a weekend party and assembles the household staff to find the killer among the Mallowan's guests.
64) The gallery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.
66) The woman inside
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Welcoming a new lodger, Karla, a law student and aspiring judge, into his home to make ends meet, Bill Olsson, recently widowed, finds himself in dire straits when Karla’s clients, a wealthy couple who hide behind closed doors, are murdered and she is pulled in for questioning.
Author
Series
At Somerton volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The intertwined lives of the prominent Averley family and the servants of Somerton Court are forever changed when an old secret comes to light.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina and uses her magic to investigate her father's mysterious death while working for the same family years ago.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Dowager Countess reveals she has a villa in the south of France, and many of the family follow her there for a rest while some of the family stay behind to keep an eye on the cast and crew of a film which is shooting at the grand estate.
71) Class: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maid was a story about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn’t understand the demands of attending college while under...
Author
Publisher
Carlton Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A tour of a day in an Edwardian-era manor begins with the work of servants and culminates in a dinner party, in a text containing accounts from masters and servants and profiles of such individuals as Winston Churchill and Virginia Woolf.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An outsider in her community for as long as she can remember, Ana, in 1860s Springfield, Illinois, finds employment as a Saturday girl and household help for Abraham and Mary Lincoln where she gets a front-row seat to historic societal changes that reshape Springfield and the entire country.
76) Fairest of heart
Author
Series
Texas ever after volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Beauty has been nothing but a curse to Penelope Snow, so she hides her fairness when she becomes a personal maid for a famous actress. But when her beauty is discovered, her mistress arranges her disappearance and leaves her stranded. Rescued by a Texas Ranger, Penelope is prepared to build a new life for herself . . . except the handsome Ranger she fancies suspects her of being a conniving jewel thief"--
77) A Cinderella story: Another Cinderella story ; A Cinderella story : once upon a song :triple feature
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Cinderella Story: Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Samantha Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.
Another Cinderella story: Mary lives with her evil stepmom/sisters and slaves for them. At the high school masquerade ball, she gets to dance with her pop idol, Joey. Running home before midnight, she drops her Zune. Joey tries to find the girl who fits the...
Author
Series
Housemaid novels volume 2
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. It’s almost perfect. But I still haven’t met Mrs. Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I’m sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns...
79) Grim lovelies
Author
Series
Grim lovelies volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When their mistress is murdered, Anouk and her fellow beasties have only three days until their enchantment ends and they are transformed back into animals, but in seeking to remain human, they threaten the hierarchy imposed by the society of magic handlers in Paris called the Haute.
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
I pick up the photograph from their mantlepiece and carefully wipe away the dust. The beautiful wife. I know her husband killed her. And I'm going to make him pay. This is my first job as a housekeeper, but Evan Warner doesn't need to know that. It's the first of many lies I'll tell him. He just lost his wife, Lola, and now he and his young daughter Jessica are adrift. But no amount of cleaning will rid this house of the secrets that have seeped...
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