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The history of Henry Milner, a little boy
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Mrs. Mary Martha (Butt) Sherwood |
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. |
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Climbing the stairs
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Margaret Powell |
The only escape from being a kitchen maid is to get married, but with just one evening off a week, Margaret has no time to lose. Her initial prospects are hardly the stuff of dreams, but then she mee… |
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett |
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi… |
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Pirate's Promise
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Peter Burchard,Clyde Robert Bulla |
Against his will, a young boy is separated from his sister and sold as a bonded servant, but the good-hearted pirate captain who rescues him makes possible a happier future. |
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Le dilemme de Jackson
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Iris Murdoch |
On the eve of their wedding, Edward Lannion and Marian Berran are led away onto dark and strange paths, while their friends and lovers are forced to make new and surprising choices. Watching over all… |
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Robber baron's daughter
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Jamila Gavin |
Twelve-year-old Nettie's sheltered and privileged life changes after her beloved tutor mysteriously disappears and Nettie, aided by the son of a household employee, begins to learn the truth about he… |
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Clover Twig and the magical cottage
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Johanna Wright,Kaye Umansky |
Capable and hardworking ten-year-old Clover Twig takes a job as housekeeper for a messy witch, Demelza, but while Demelza is away Clover and an accident-prone neighbor boy must defend the weird cotta… |
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By royal command
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Mary Hooper |
As a reward for saving Queen Elizabeth's life, teenaged Lucy, now firmly established in Dr. Dee's household, is asked to secretely work as a spy for the queen but strange ghostly cries in the house p… |
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Possessed
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Kate Cann |
Sixteen-year-old Rayne escapes London, her mother, and boyfriend for a job in the country at Morton's Keep, where she is drawn to a mysterious clique and its leader, St. John, but puzzles over whethe… |
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The Golem's latkes
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Eric A. Kimmel |
Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel visits the Emperor, leaving a new housemaid to prepare for his Hanukkah party, but returns to find that she has misused the clay man he created. Includes historical and c… |
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Consumed
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Kate Cann |
A new manager brings many changes to Morton's Keep, capitalizing on its gothic atmosphere and history, but Rayne sees ominous signs indicating that the one thing that has not changed is the evil pres… |
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Sins of the House of Borgia
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Sarah Bower |
Violante isn't supposed to be here, in one of the grandest courts of Renaissance Italy. She isn't supposed to be a lady-in-waiting to the beautiful Lucrezia Borgia. But the same secretive politics th… |
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Ellis Island
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Kate Kerrigan |
"In 1920s New York, a young Irish woman must choose between her new life and her husband back home in Ireland"-- |
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Servants
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Lucy Lethbridge |
From the immense staff running a lavish Edwardian estate and the lonely maid-of-all-work cooking in a cramped middle-class house to the poor child doing chores in a slightly less poor household, serv… |
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Tell us we're home
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Marina Tamar Budhos |
Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when … |
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Undermajordomo Minor
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Patrick deWitt |
"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 br… |
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The new countess
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Fay Weldon |
"England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne and the entire grand estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra just a few months a way. Pr… |
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Amelia Bedelia and the Baby
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Peggy Parish |
Amelia Bedelia follows to the letter the list of instructions for looking after the Lanes' baby. |
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Strange star
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Emma Carroll |
One stormy June evening, five friends meet at Villa Diodati, the summer home of Lord Byron. After dinner is served, they challenge each other to tell ghost stories that will freeze the blood. But one… |
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Otherbound
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Corinne Duyvis |
A seventeen-year-old boy finds that every time he closes his eyes, he's drawn into the body of a mute servant girl from another world--a world that's growing increasingly more dangerous, and where ma… |
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