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81) Pillage
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had never met in a remote manor house, where he learns that his family suffers from a curse that allows him to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs hatch.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"On a freezing winter's night, with the household in mourning following the death of the dowager Lady Croft, the residents of Thorncroft House are roused from their beds by the arrival of an unexpected visitor. Although Lady Stanton seems reluctant to explain the reasons for her visit, housekeeper Harriet Rowsley would never turn a stranger from the door; she offers Lady Stanton and her servants all the hospitality at her disposal, however secretive...
84) Hot water
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"She sees everything, but can never tell anyone... At a beautiful villa in the south of France, Hannah Carreras works as a maid. Under strict instructions never to speak to the guests, she blends into the background - but she sees everything. Including the mistress Summer, lounging by the pool awaiting the arrival of her married lover, Steve. When Steve finally shows at the villa - with his family unexpectedly in tow - Summer has vanished. Steve claims...
Author
Series
Fairy tale fatal volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Miss Ophelia Flax is a Victorian actress who knows all about making quick changes and even quicker exits. But to solve a fairy-tale crime in the haunted Black Forest, she'll need more than a bit of charm. 1867: After being fired from her latest variety hall engagement, Ophelia acts her way into a lady's maid position for a crass American millionaire. But when her new job whisks her off to a foreboding castle straight out of a Grimm tale, she begins...
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After Kanna's dramatic confrontation with her father, life in Miss Kobayashi's household has gone back to normal -- or at least, what passes for normal in a house full of dragons. Tohru freshens up her routine, Lucoa reconsiders her role as a bystander, and Ilulu's biological clock runs wild. Meanwhile, Kobayashi's boss offers her a new opportunity that could transform her connection with the dragon world."-- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India as witnessed through the lives of two women--Sera Dubash, an upper middle-class housewife, and Bhima, an illiterate domestic hardened by a life of loss and despair.
88) Scarlet
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In England's stately manor houses, murder is not generally a topic for polite conversation. Mallowan Hall, home to Agatha Christie and her husband, Max, is the exception. And housekeeper Phyllida Bright delights in discussing gory plot details with her friend and employer. The neighboring village of Listleigh has also become a hub of grisly goings-on, thanks to a Murder Fête organized to benefit a local orphanage. Members of The Detection Club--a...
Author
Series
Regency faerie tales volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Risking her immortal soul to win Mr. Benedict Ashbrooke's heart, housemaid Effie has 100 days -- and 10,000 stitches -- to make Mr. Ashbrooke fall in love and propose but finds her greatest obstacle the man with whom she made a devil's bargain whose overwhelmingly good intentions stand in her way.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt's former maid Gracie takes a new maid job in order to help the daughter of a long-gone friend. At first, it seems that all is normal in the household, even if her temporary employer's elderly grandmother keeps entirely to her bedroom upstairs. But Gracie soon realizes that Granny is suffering from neglect, and rather than helping her, the husband and wife have decided she isn't dying fast enough.
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Marion Shaw se crió en los suburbios, donde lo único que conoció fueron el anhelo y la carencia. A pesar de que lo que más anhela es abandonar la ciudad y todas sus miserias, no tiene ninguna esperanza de escapar hasta el día en que encuentra un anuncio muy peculiar en el periódico, en el cual se busca una criada de sangre. Aunque sabe muy poco sobre el lejano norte, donde los nobles viven a todo lujo y se beben la sangre de aquellos a su servicio,...
93) Whiskey Beach
Author
Language
English
Description
A Boston lawye, Eli has weathered an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being accused of murdering his soon-to-be ex-wife. And though there was never enough evidence to have him arrested, his reputation is in tatters as well as his soul. He needs sanctuary. He needs Bluff House.
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Long before the dragon maid Tohru came into her life, Kobayashi had been a big fan of maids. Now, Kobayashi gets a chance to step into her fantasy when Tohru organizes her friends to design a maid outfit especially for Kobayashi. When she does so, Kobayashi learns an important lesson about what makes a maid outfit & and what makes a maid."-- cover page 4.
95) A devious death
Author
Series
Lady and lady's maid mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Phoebe and her sister Julia are eager for a summer getaway at High Head Lodge, the newly purchased estate of their cousin Regina. But Regina's odd friend, Olive, is far from friendly, and Regina's mother and brother-- bitter over the unequal distribution of her father's inheritance-- have descended on the house to confront Regina. Eva questions the loyalty and integrity of Miss Stanley, Lady Julia's new maid. When their hostess meets an untimely end--...
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 26
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""A murder will occur tonight at Beecham House . . ." Who could resist such a compelling invitation? Of course, the murder in question purports to be a party game, and Phyllida looks forward to using some of the deductive skills she has acquired thanks to her employer, Mrs. Agatha, who is unable to attend in person. The hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Wokesley, are new to the area, and Phyllida gladly offers their own overwhelmed housekeeper some guidance while...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"1855, New Hampshire. Lucy Blunt is set to hang for a double murder. Murderess or victim? Only Lucy knows the truth. In the shadow of the gallows, Lucy reflects on the events that led to her bitter downfall--from the moment she arrived at the rambling Burton mansion looking for work and a better life to the grisly murders themselves. In a mysterious household of locked doors and forbidden affections, Lucy slips comfortably into the shadows, where...
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