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Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When Amelia Bedelia volunteers to fill in as director of a third-grade Thanksgiving play, she misunderstands everything from one girl's desire to play a big role to an opening night wish that she "break a leg, " but all is well in the end.
23) The housemaid
Author
Series
Housemaid novels volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Kobayashi and Tohru share their feelings, Kanna plays with her dad, Fafnir runs away from home, Ilulu and Lucoa cause trouble...it's another typical day with dragons. But then Telne appears with a big announcement that threatens this community's harmony.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When her sister Julia's new--and much older--husband is found dead the morning after their hasty marriage, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva, must discover the killer before the Renshaws' social standing is irreparably damaged by a murder charge.
26) The little hours
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
27) The maid
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr. and Mrs. Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their new domestic help. So do their mentally disabled son, Ah Soon. In Chinese superstition, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is regarded as the month when the gates of hell open for forsaken spirits...
Author
Series
Harlequin presents volume 4141
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Recovering from a near-deadly accident, Renzo Camaro retreated to his Côte D'Azur estate. Nothing breaks through his solitude. Until the arrival of his new housekeeper stirs dormant desires... Jessie Burton took this job to get closure. Yet bitter and broken Renzo is changed from the playboy who gave her one eye-opening night then abruptly left. He still drives her wild with want! But unless she can forgive the pain he caused, Jessie must remain...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of Lord Grantham and the rest of the Crawley family, as well as the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
Author
Series
This woven kingdom volume 1
Language
English
Description
"To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can't put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom--and the world"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York City, 1910. Ladies' maid Jane Prescott has taken a position with the Benchley family, dismissed by the city's elite as 'new money.' Invisible until she's needed, Jane has a power they do not-- she understands the rules of high society. At a party for Charlotte Benchley's engagement to notorious playboy Norrie Newsome, the groom-to-be is found murdered. There are many with grudges to bear: from the family Norrie was supposed to marry into,...
Publisher
Crunchyroll
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
日本語
Description
What happens when a drunken promise leads to living with a dragon? That's Miss Kobayashi's new reality when Tohru, her new maid-slash-dragon appears in her life! And if one wasn't enough, in comes Kanna, a little dragon with a big attitude. Soon, Kobayashi has a house full of adorable dragons, one serving tail and the other serving serious moe.
33) Scarlet
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The first book in a rollicking new historical-fantasy series that reinvents the French Revolution with vampires as the aristocrats, in a lively retelling of The Scarlet Pimpernel from the author of the beloved Invisible Library series. It is 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Vampires are a normal part of society across Europe--usually rich and aristocratic, they have slaked the guillotines thirst in large numbers. The mysterious Scarlet...
34) Artfully yours
Author
Series
Duke undone volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sparks fly between a lordly art critic and a lady forger in this enthralling Victorian historical romance. Nina Finch isn't suited for a life of crime. Raised by her art-forger brother, she can paint like Boticelli. But she'd so much rather be baking gooseberry tarts. She finally has the money she needs to open her own bakery. Unfortunately, her brother's carelessness lands her-and their forgeries-directly under the nose of London's most discerning...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Set in post-WWI England, this historical mystery finds sleuthing duo Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, hunting a killer after the decision to open Foxwood Hall for guided tours turns deadly.
The lean times following the Great War continue to require creative solutions for England's noble class. To make ends meet, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, have decided to open up Foxwood Hall to guided public tours....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
""A great read." -Charlaine Harris In this series debut from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, a modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian Scotland-in an unfamiliar body-with a killer on the loose. May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She's drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness....
Author
Series
Emily Dickinson mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. January 1855 Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was pouring rain on the day of her ever-important job interview at the Dickinson home in Amherst, Massachusetts. When she arrived late, disheveled with her skirts sodden and filthy, she'd lost...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She's the 'invisible girl,' compelled to poke into her wealthy clients' closely guarded lives. It's a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can't unsee in the home of her brand-new clients: a secret so dark it could destroy the privileged couple expecting their first child. This makes Kit dangerous to the couple. In turn, it makes the couple--who might kill to keep their secret--dangerous to Kit....
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