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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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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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White Banners
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Lloyd C. Douglas |
**A heartening story of a domestic servant who molded wisely the lives of her employers and their children, knowing that service, whether as servant or king, is a noble destiny.**
**Lloyd Cassel D… |
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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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The Book of Household Management
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Mrs. Beeton |
"No home is complete without this classic guide to cookery and home management. The ideal gift book, it contains hundreds of recipes, full menus and hints for cooks. Beeton's Book of Household Manage… |
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Leaving the Bellweathers
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Kristin Clark Venuti |
The young Bellweathers–fourteen-year-old Spider, thirteen-year-old Ninda, and the ten-year-old triplets, Brick, Spike, and Sassy–and their equally peculiar parents have brought constant chaos to the … |
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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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Hawkins
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Barbara Brooks Wallace |
Harvey's parents hope to break their son's habit of collecting free things when he wins the free services of a gentleman's gentleman for a month. |
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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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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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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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The St. Zita Society
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Ruth Rendell |
Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam place in Pimlico: an exclusive street of houses inhabited by the rich and serviced by the not so rich. The hired help, a motley assortmen… |
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While Beauty Slept
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Elizabeth Canning Blackwell |
"A Gothic retelling of the real story behind the legend of Sleeping Beauty"-- |
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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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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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Esperanza Street
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Niyati Keni |
"I was eight when my father brought me to one of the big houses at the top of Esperanza Street and left me with Mary Morelos. 'I haven't the time to fix broken wings,' she said. 'Does he have any tro… |
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Legacy of love
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Christine Johnson |
"She dreamed of digging through ancient ruins--but the only exploring Anna Simmons gets to do is in the expensive houses she cleans in Pearlman, Michigan. When Brandon Landers hires her, she's unsure… |
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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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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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