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Language
English
Description
Rosie and Abigail are like family, Ina Merriweather used to say. That is, until the day Ina cast out her housekeeper, Rosie, and her fifteen-year-old daughter Abigail. Abigail felt deeply betrayed, especially by Ina's daughter Lila, who was her closest friend. Now, twenty-five years later, an old score is about to be settled, and an old love rekindled. Abigail is now a self-made woman who has built an empire out of the homemaking skills she learned...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by the love of her life and still mourning the loss of her mother, Lily Donaldson goes to Austin, Texas, for a fresh start, working for the Marshall family as a kitchen maid in their luxurious mansion, the Butterfly Palace, but soon this safe house turns out to be a spider web of deceit.
Author
Language
English
Description
Hiring a housekeeper named Elyse to help care for her father and his wife Audrey, who has Parkinson’s, successful real estate agent Jodi Bishop soon discovers that the attractive 60-something widow is attempting to take over their lives when Audrey’s condition rapidly worsens.
4) Duke of sin
Author
Series
Maiden Lane romances volume 10
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he returns from exile to get revenge on his enemies, Valentine Napier, Duke of Montgomery, is astonished to find his housekeeper, Bridget Crumb, ransacking his room in search of evidence that he is blackmailing her mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
An impoverished Irish immigrant in the industrial 1860s takes a job as a lady's maid in the home of prominent businessman Andrew Carnegie, with whom she falls in love before going missing, triggering Carnegie's search for answers and the establishment of his enduring legacy.
Author
Language
English
Description
Unfairly dismissed from her position as housekeeper for the grandest home in Mayfair, Mrs. King, along with an eclectic group of women, plans a daring heist on the night of the house’s highly anticipated costume ball, where she’ll get something she wants even more than money: the truth.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In search of healing from a broken heart, Mona decamps to Taos, New Mexico, for a fresh start, where she finds a community of seekers and cast-offs, all of whom have one or two things to teach her. But always lurking just beneath the surface are her memories of growing up in a chaotic, destructive family from which she's trying to disentangle herself, and the larger legacy of the past she left behind.
8) Mrs. Miracle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Merkle mysteriously appears as widower Seth Webster is looking for a nanny and housekeeper to help with his twin boys, and she quickly becomes irreplaceable as an employee, friend, and matchmaker.
Author
Language
English
Description
Arriving at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952 where she is instantly rendered a misfit, a plain, self-conscious secretarial school student is befriended and introduced by a hotel maid to the city's jazz and drug counterculture and is involved in a deadly skirmish that reverberates half a century later in the life of an obsessed journalist.
11) Hearts awakening
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
With no means to support herself, Ellie Kilmer agrees to work as a housekeeper for the young widower who lives on Dillon Island, hopeful she can obtain a proper reference. But Jackson Smith quickly realizes that Ellie's presence may solve his own problems.
13) Mrs. Miracle
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Practical advice from his new housekeeper Mrs. Merkle helps Seth Webster, a widower with six-year-old twins, rebuild his life after the loss of his wife.
Author
Series
Cavendon chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Picks up nine years after the events of Cavendon Women, in an epic tale that finds Cecily and Miles drawing on the collective strength of the whole family to protect Cavendon Hall and its clan from the challenges of World War II.
15) The fraud
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1873 Victorian London, with the city mesmerized by the “Tichborne Trial,” wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claims he is the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title, Mrs. Eliza Touchet becomes determined to find out if he’s really who he says he is or if he’s a fraud.
16) Amish secrets
Author
Series
River Haven volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The new housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman in her isolated mansion, Rachel Hurst discovers that someone is intent on harming her employer and turns to her employer's son, a man who she had rejected, for help in finding the truth.
17) The help
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After a white woman graduates from college in the 1960s, she returns to her home in Jackson, Mississippi and begins her writing career by interviewing the African-American servants in her neighborhood and sharing their stories with the public.
Author
Series
Haven Manor novels volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When ownership of the estate where Daphne Blakemoor works passes to William, Marquis of Chemsford, her quiet, secluded life is threatened. William has a connection to her youth--and they've both been hiding from the past. Can they face their deepest wounds and forge a new path for the future?" --
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. Obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople that were otherwise foreclosed. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement...
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