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Pub. Date
2010
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North Archer, Andie Miller's ex-husband, asks her to become the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already--and live in a haunted house! What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fiancé. And just when Andie thinks things couldn't get more complicated, North shows up...
2) Tully
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
The film is about Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.
"Captures the complete exhaustion of parenthood in funny and profound fashion."--USA Today
"...the best work Cody has done in the conventional feature format since Juno."--Chicago Tribune
"Theron...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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""Whip-smart, creepy as hell, and masterfully plotted, Hidden Pictures is the best new thriller novel I've read in years. Destined to be a classic of the genre." -Ransom Riggs, bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted mystery about a woman working as...
Author
Series
Mary Poppins series volume 4
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Mary Poppins comes back on the end of a kite string, stays with the Banks family for a while, and then disappears on a merry-go-round horse.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr. 49 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Nanny McPhee appears at the farmhouse door of a busy young mother Isabel Green, she discovers that Mrs. Green's children are in an all-out household war with their two spoiled city cousins. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and an elephant that turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to show the children five valuable lessons, the most important of which...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wayward 30-something Bridget can't seem to get a handle on her stalled career or flailing love life, until she takes a summer job nannying Frances, a precocious 6 year old whose simple wisdoms just might set Bridget back on track. -Amazon
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 6
Publisher
Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
Nanny Piggins gets in trouble with the law after some illicit tight rope walking, and is sentenced to 5000 hours community service. But she isn't the type of pig to take her punishment lying down, not when there are old people to rescue, pirates to impersonate and a great big bus to borrow.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In the Midwest just after the September 11 attacks, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin comes of age amid such challenges as racism, the War on Terror, and cruelty in the name of love, as she leaves her family's farm to attend college and takes a part-time job as a nanny.
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 7
Publisher
Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Never fear, Nanny Piggins is here! When Mr Green rings from a tropical island, begging to be rescued, Nanny Piggins first instinct is to say no. However, a principle is at stake. No-one kidnaps her employer--at least not without written permission from her. So Nanny Piggins sets out to save the hapless tax lawyer, and to do so she must first dabble in a spot of bungy jumping, deceive immigration officials wearing a fake moustache and seduce the President...
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When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by the luxurious "smart" home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into...
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 1
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When Mr. Green, a stingy widower with three children he cannot be bothered with, decides to find a nanny for his children, he winds up hiring a glamorous ex-circus pig who knows nothing about children but a lot about chocolate.
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2012, ©2011.
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Derrick, Samantha and Michael should be in school. Instead they find themselves in NASA's space shuttle, which Nanny Piggins manages to accidentally launch, blasting them all into outer space. This time she has gone too far!
15) Mrs. Doubtfire
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A divorced father who wants to spend more time with his children disguises himself as a British nanny and applies for a housekeeping job in his ex-wife's home. Free to be the "woman" he never knew he could be, he soon creates a whole new life with his entire family.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Emily Proudman's life is in chaos. She's just lost her acting agent and her job in one miserable day. Scott Denny has a problem. Even though he's a successful CEO, neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can come close to fixing it. He's at a breaking point. Until he meets Emily. Emily is friendly and agreeable. Emily is desperate. Emily is perfect. Scott offers Emily what seems the perfect summer job as a housekeeper and nanny on his remote...
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"High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left alone with her children, she?s going to need a hand taking care of her young son if she?s ever going to finish her memoir. In response to a Craigslist ad, S arrives, a magnetic young artist who will live in the secluded guest house out back, care for Lady?s toddler, Devin, and keep a watchful eye on her older, teenage son, Seth. S performs her day...
Author
Series
Mary Poppins series volume 2
Formats
Description
Mary Poppins comes back on the end of a kite string, stays with the Banks family for a while, and then disappears on a merry-go-round horse.
Author
Series
Emmy and the rat series volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
358 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Ten-year-old Emmy wants to be an ordinary girl, but the evil nanny Miss Barmy, now a rat, has trapped five of her former charges and when she uses them to steal jewels belonging to Emmy's parents, it is up to Emmy, Joe, and their rodent friends to stop her.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
450 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When her privileged employers become the focus of a financial scandal at the height of the economic crash, a trusted nanny finds her loyalties tested by a reporter who taps her as an insider with unique perspectives into what various family members have hidden from each other.
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