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"It's Christmas time in Calabria and with Strega Nona's annual feast around the corner, she has no time for her usual magical tasks. Christmas has a magic of its own, and no one knows magic like Strega Nona does, especially Big Anthony. But with the clock ticking on her preparations, will Big Anthony finally be able to prove that he can be counted on with some magic of his own?"--
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Housemaid novels volume 1
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"'Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... 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...
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Series
Secrets of the manor volume 7
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Description
Moving into the Rousseau manor with her mother, the cook, Camille discovers hidden treasures that unlock the secrets of the Rousseau family past.
6) The friend
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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With Mom too busy and Dad away much of the time, Belle finds companionship with a household employee who after each day's work takes Belle "hand in hand" to the beach.
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Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 29
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
63 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Amelia Bedelia helps with the school newspaper -- to rave reviews.
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Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
290 pages
Description
WANTED: Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply. A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling gothic novelfrom the author of The Year of the Witching. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real...
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Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm
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"Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts...
12) Whiskey Beach
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Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiance's murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Describes what life was like for servants during the historical period depicted in the television show "Downton Abbey," drawing on first-hand accounts to reveal how staff members were subjected to grueling labor, family secrets, and society scandals.
14) Remittance
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Marie leaves behind her children and unemployed husband for Singapore to work as a maid, she leaves behind one set of hardships only to confront new ones.
15) The little hours
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
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Series
Fairy tale fatal volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
After fast-talking her way into the role of lady's maid to a New York millionaire's bride, gutsy America actress Ophelia Flax finds herself in the heart of Grimm territory where she is faced with murder and mayhem after the ruins of Snow White's cottage are discovered nearb
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
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Series
This woven kingdom volume 1
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"--
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
When eighteen-year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London in 1914, she's unable to fulfill her family's ambitions and find a position as an office secretary. Lying to her parents and her brother, Michael, she takes a job as a housemaid at Number 35, Park Lane, where she is quickly caught up in lives of its inhabitants.
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