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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
1825. Delighted by the quiet uproar of raising their newborn, Lady Lucy and Major Sir Robert Kurland could not be more pleased at the prospect of welcoming another into their home. But their preparations are soon overshadowed by a baffling case of murder . . . Once known to all in her village as the rector's daughter, Lucy is now a mother herself--to a wonderful eighteen-month-old son, Ned. Upon discovering that she is expecting a second child, Lucy...
43) Longbourn
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Language
English
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The servants at Longbourn estate, only glancingly mentioned in Jane Austen's classic, take center stage in Jo Baker's lively, cunning new novel. Here are the Bennets as we have never known them: seen through the eyes of those scrubbing the floors, cooking the meals, emptying the chamber pots. Our heroine is Sarah, an orphaned housemaid beginning to chafe against the boundaries of her class. When the militia marches into town, a new footman arrives...
44) The plum tree
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1938, as Germany rapidly changes under Hitler's regime, 17-year-old Christine Bolz, a domestic forbidden to return to the wealthy Jewish family she works for, and to her employer's son Isaac, confronts the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau to survive and to be with the man she loves.
45) Through you
Author
Series
Hidalgo brothers trilogy volume 2
Publisher
W by Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sparky fly when Artemis Hidalgo returns home from university and reunites with Claudia, whose role as the Hidalgos' housekeeper means Artemis must keep her at arms' length.
Author
Series
Lady slayers volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1578 Hungary, sixteen-year-old Anna is elevated from scullery maid to chambermaid by the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Báthory, falling completely under the Countess's spell until Anna realizes that she is not a friend but a prisoner of the increasingly cruel and murderous Elizabeth.
48) From the shadows
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Laid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antiques market, he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the seemingly idyllic home of a husband, wife, and their internet-addicted teenage daughter. There, he sneaks from the shadows to serve as an invisible butler, becoming deeply and disastrously involved with his unknowing host...
49) Serpentine
Author
Publisher
Month9Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the forty-two killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local Gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it have...
Author
Series
Elixir fixers volume 4
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sasha's father sells magic potions. There's only one problem-- his potions don't work. Sasha knows they don't work-- they can't work! Magic isn't real! But everyone in town buys Papa's potions, so Sasha has to take magic into her own hands. When greedy Vadim Gentry asks for a potion of persuasion, Sasha is suspicious. But it's not until he slips it into Papa's tea and orders him to sell the shop that Sasha sees the problem: If Papa says no, everyone...
53) The white house
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The White House is based on true events, reimagining the dark chronicles of a notorious drug kingpin's death, and the unfortunate events that followed. The young heroine Draya lives paycheck to paycheck, laboring as a maid in a luxurious white house. One day, in the course of performing her duties, she is presented with an irresistible opportunity for a quick--and risky--payday. What unfolds in the white house changes the course of her life. Kidnapping,...
54) Legacy of death
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"With his lordship's mental health failing, management of his grand country estate has been assigned to a group of trustees, including land agent Matthew Rowsley and his capable wife Harriet. But the smooth running of Thorncroft House is disrupted by a series of unforeseen events. Building work on the estate workers' new cottages is halted by the discovery of Roman remains. Shortly afterwards, the family butler is brutally assaulted and left for dead....
55) 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.
Author
Series
Emily Dickinson mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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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...
58) A perilous pal
Author
Series
Friend for hire mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
While helping a lonely, divorced empty-nester fulfill her bucket list, Emma Westlake turns into an amateur sleuth when her client's ex is murdered.
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....
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