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Love Letters From a Duke
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Elizabeth Boyle |
He's at her service . . .Though she can't afford the coal to heat her drafty Mayfair mansion, Felicity Langley still clings to her dream of marrying a duke—one she's had since her very first curtsy. … |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sid Seal, houseman
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Will Watkins |
Waltham de Swine, a young pig in a rather wealthy family, finds his life much enlivened when an irrepressible seal comes to work in his home. |
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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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Prisoners in the palace
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Michaela MacColl |
Recently orphaned and destitute, seventeen-year-old Liza Hastings earns a position as a lady's maid to sixteen-year-old Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace in 1836, the year before Victoria become… |
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