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21) 3 days to live
Author
Language
English
Description
Three stories of suspense, including "3 Days to Live," in which a CIA-agent bride is on her European honeymoon when she and her husband are poisoned--leaving her seventy-two hours to take revenge.
22) The help
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five of the most popular Amelia Bedelia books on one compact disc!
Amelia Bedelia is the world's most literal-minded housekeeper, who causes quite a ruckus whenever she's given a chance. In Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower, she arrives with a garden hose and the party is turned into an uproarious mess. In Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia, her literal-mindedness adds a new dimension to the game of baseball, and Thank You, Amelia Bedelia features
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents-only to watch as she takes over their lives in this riveting novel of suspense from the New York Times bestselling author called "an ingenious master of domestic suspense" (Samantha M. Bailey). In the end, I have only myself to blame. I'm the one who let her in. Jodi Bishop knows success. She's the breadwinner, a top-notch real estate agent. Her husband, Harrison . . . not so much. Once, he...
25) Cavendon Hall
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes an epic saga of intrigue and mystique set in Edwardian England. Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them. Charles Ingham, the sixth Earl of Mowbray, lives there with his wife Felicity and their six children. Walter Swann, the premier male of the Swann family, is valet to the earl. His wife Alice, a clever seamstress who is in charge of the countess's...
26) Mrs. Miracle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her acting career does not take off, but her sister does with her fiance, Reba returns home to become a preschool teacher, and director of the Christmas pageant. After his wife dies, widower Seth Webster moves to town with his rambunctious twin boys. Mrs. Merkle, who is dubbed 'Mrs. Miracle' by the boys, is hired as a nanny and soon has the boys behaving nicely. It isn't long before Mrs. Miracle is sowing the seeds of love for Reba and Seth too....
27) Temptation
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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28) Domestic affairs
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
viii, 437 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rosie and Abigail are like family," Ina Merriweather used to say. That is, until the day Ina abruptly cast out her housekeeper, Rosie, and her fifteen-year-old daughter Abigail. Abigail felt deeply betrayed, especially by Ina's daughter Lila, who was her closest friend. Only Lila's twin brother Vaughn, with whom Abigail had been exploring the joys and heartaches of first love, showed any compassion. Now, twenty-five years later, an old score is about...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one of her own. After working to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
p2001
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Company of Rogues volume 7
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
464 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are going to shake things up. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new "grown-up" novel, To Kill a Mockingbird....
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"CRAZY RICH ASIANS meets THE HELP! From Reese's Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes an absolute tour de force-the wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own"--
35) Corrina, Corrina
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Full screen and widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A funny, heart-warming story of a newly widowed man struggling to raise his little girl, and the woman who brings magic and laughter back into their lives when she comes to be their housekeeper.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfrienda junkie named Mr. Disgusting, long storyand her efforts to restart her life since havent exactly gone as planned. For one thing, shes got another bad boyfriend. This one she calls Dark, and he happens to be married to one of Monas clients. He also might be a little unstable. Dark and his wife arent the only complicated clients...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
No recuerda cómo empezó su colección. ¿Tal vez fue en un fragmento de una conversación que escuchó mientras limpiaba un fregadero? Al poco tiempo (mientras limpiaba el polvo de una sala de estar o descongelaba un frigorífico) se dio cuenta de que la gente le contaba sus historias. Quizás siempre lo habían hecho, pero ahora es diferente, ahora las historias se acercan a ella y ella las recoge.
She can't recall what started her collection....
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken cakes. But obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists,...
Author
Publisher
Furphies Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"She's a liar. She's a stalker. She's in your house. When Claire sees Hannah Wilson at an exclusive Manhattan hair salon, it's like a knife slicing through barely healed scars. It may have been ten years since Claire last saw Hannah, but she has thought of her every day, and not in a good way. So Claire does what anyone would do in her position--she stalks her. Hannah is now Mrs. Carter, living the charmed life that should have been Claire's. It's...
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