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The Kern Secretarial Agency provides reliable professional services to its wealthy clientele, and Anne Clifton was one of the finest young women in Ursula Kern's employ. But Miss Clifton has met an untimely end -- and Ursula is convinced it was not due to natural causes. Bent on justice, Ursula hatches a plan: take Anne's place as stenographer to the reclusive poet Valerie, Lady Fulbrook. There are dark rumors about Lord Fulbrook, and his gloomy mansion...
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Palace insiders volume 2
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English
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"Petunia De Vere enjoys being the personal assistant to lovable, bumbling Johnny Marchmont. But the job has its share of challenges, including the royal's giant, intimidating bodyguard, Matthias. Pet and Matthias are polar opposites--she's spontaneous and enthusiastic, he's rigid and stoic--but she can sense there's something softer underneath that tough exterior ... For Matthias Vaughn, protecting others is the name of the game. But keeping his royal...
3) Comfort me
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Series
Psalm 23 mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Big Pink Bow
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Tragedy can strike in the blink of an eye, as Cindy Preston is all too aware. As she struggles to cope with the loss of her job, death and destruction are unfolding around her. At her new temp assignment she quickly discovers that something sinister happened to the woman she's replaced. Meanwhile, Rabbi Jeremiah Silverman and Detective Mark Walters are left picking up the pieces when one of their own is viciously attacked. Now it's a race against...
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2015.
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English
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The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caregiver in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime,...
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Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
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"Anna's job is simple: prevent the unexpected from happening and do everything better than perfectly. An artist at heart, Anna works a day job as a private assistant for Bambi Von Bizmark, a megarich Upper East Side matriarch who's about to be honored at the illustrious Opera Ball. Caught between the staid world of great wealth and her unconventional life as an artist, Anna struggles with her true calling. If she's supposed to be a painter, why is...
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Queen's thief volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire. But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away, and he is forced onto a very different path"--
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Series
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Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Amanda Waverly, who is working as a secretary while desperately trying to escape the life of crime into which she was born, tries to resist the charms of the notorious Duke of Langford, from whom she must hide her true identity.
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Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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The Duchess of Waverly's personal secretary, Miss Aurelia Graves, mistaken for her employer until Alexander Fennessey learns the truth, agrees to let others think she's the duchess for a fortnight, while making it clear she has no interest in marrying him, until the tables turn, and he wants to marry her.
13) Estación delirio
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Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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Noviembre de 1984, Estación Central de Stuttgart. Anne Kahl, secretaria de una famosa clínica psiquiátrica, encabeza una caravana de mujeres que están a punto de abordar distintos trenes que las llevarán a todos los rincones de Alemania. Anne ha asumido la misión de embarcarlas y, en buena cuenta, de liberarlas. Se trata de una operación clandestina, pues ellas son pacientes muy delicadas del doctor Curtius Tauler, que las ha dado de alta tras...
15) The do-right
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Cinco Puntos Press
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English
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"1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. Now, after fourteen years in prison, she's out. It's 1973, and nobody's rushing to hire a parolee. Persistence and smarts land her a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, an ex-roughneck turned neophyte private eye. Together these two pry into the dark corners of Beaumont, a blue-collar, Cajun-influenced town dominated by Big Oil. A mysterious client...
Author
Series
Psalm 23 mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Big Pink Bow
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Cindy has waited a long time for Jeremiah to share the secrets of his past with her and she's not going to let the murder of a young woman at a political rally at the church keep her from finding out exactly what the rabbi has been hiding. Just when she's beginning to get answers, though, an emergency phone call sends her off to Las Vegas to the bedside of her injured brother and leaves Jeremiah to solve the mystery himself. Before she knows what's...
Author
Series
Psalm 23 mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Big Pink Bow
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Cindy was hoping that the only drama this Halloween season would be trying to figure out costumes for Jeremiah and her to wear to a costume party. As it turns out, though, there are a lot more tricks in store than treats.
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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"On the eve of the heated presidential election of 1892, Miss Hattie Davish arrives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a scenic resort town where those without the scent of whiskey on their breath have the plight of temperance on their tongues. Summoned for her services as a private secretary, Hattie is looking forward to exploring the hills, indulging her penchant for botany-and getting to know the town's handsome doctor. But it's hard to get her job done...
Author
Series
Psalm 23 mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Big Pink Bow
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Cindy finally thought that she knew everything she needed to about Jeremiah's past. She was wrong.
20) Naughty neighbor
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English
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Louisa Brannigan isa a Washington D.C. press secretary whose annoying neighbor gets her involved in the case of a missing pig. Little does she know that the quest for this MIA swine might just lead to unexpected romance.
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