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Cleaner Janice knows that it is in people's stories that you really get to know them. From recently-widowed Fiona and her son Adam; to opera-singing Geordie; and the awful Mrs 'YeahYeahYeah' and her fox terrier, Decius, Janice has a unique insight into the community around her. When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs B - a shrewd and tricksy woman in her nineties - she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the...
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Hazel volume season 5
Publisher
CPT Holdings
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Based on Saturday Evening Post cartoons, this popular TV series centers around Hazel, a take-charge maid who works for the Baxter family. George Baxter is the head of the family which consists of his wife, Dorothy and their son, Harold. Though she is the maid for the Baxter family, its very clear that Hazel runs the household and often preempts George's authority in very amusing ways.
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Housemaid novels volume 2
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English
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"It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I...
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Housemaid novels volume 1
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English
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"Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full...
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English
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"Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it have been...
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Housemaid novels volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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""You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I'll do anything to keep it that way... I used to clean other people's houses - now, I can't believe this home is actually mine. The charming...
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
中文(繁體)
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"Set in Singapore during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Ilo Ilo chronicles the day-to-day of the Lim family--troublesome grade-schooler Jiale and his overstressed parents, Teck and Hwee Leng. Comfortably middle class and with another baby on the way, they hire Teresa, a Filipino immigrant, as a live-in maid and nanny. An outsider in the family and Singapore itself, Teresa initially struggles to manage Jiale's antics and find her footing in her new...
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Rip through time volume 2
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English
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"A modern-day homicide detective is working as an undertaker's assistant in Victorian Scotland when a serial poisoner attacks the men of Edinburgh and leaves their widows under suspicion. Edinburgh, 1869: Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her employers know she's not housemaid Catriona Mitchell-even though Mallory is in Catriona's body-and Mallory is now officially an undertaker's assistant....
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English
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"From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a new World War II-set story of four women on the home front competing for a spot hosting a BBC wartime cookery program and a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio...
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Rosen blood volume 3
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"After a horrific carriage accident, Stella Violetta awakens in a Gothic mansion to find that her saviors are gorgeous young men. The manor’s residents let her stay as a maid, but Stella soon realizes that their allure hides a savage thirst. Gilbert reappears to warn Stella about sweet and friendly Yoel. Can she trust the man who attacked her? Stella also fends off Friedrich’s advances while deepening her relationship with Levi. As the...
11) The latecomers
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English
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From the bestselling author of What Was Mine-a deeply moving family drama about a young Irish immigrant, an ancestral home in New England and a dark secret that lay hidden in its walls for five generations.
In 1908, sixteen-year-old Bridey runs away from her small town in Ireland with her same-age sweetheart Thom. But when Thom dies suddenly of ship fever on their ocean crossing, Bridey finds herself alone and pregnant in a strange new world.
Forced...
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Series
Rosen blood volume 2
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"After a horrific carriage accident, Stella Violetta awakens in a Gothic mansion to find that her saviors are gorgeous young men. the manor's residents let her stay as a maid, but Stella soon realizes that their allure hides a savage thirst. Yearning leads to danger when mansion resident Levi starves himself for Stella's sake. To save him, Stella must journey into his soul while he's unconscious and confront the nun Luchia's grasp on his past. Then,...
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Miss Kobayashi's dragon maid volume 13
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Even ultra-powerful dragons sometimes struggle to understand human society. Tohru squares off against a cleaning robot, Elma spends a day with Lucoa, Kanna plays detective, Ilulu tries to help Fafnir get more exercise. Miss Kobayashi is always at the center of it all. It's just another ordinary day in the fun-filled Volume 13!!"
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Publisher
Televisa Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
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Milagros works as a maid for the Belmonte family. She and the family's youngest son, Alejandro, share a secret love. However, Hugo is also in love with Milagros. One day, they discover a secret that will change their lives forever.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Mrs. Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, while tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life--a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's never wanted anything so badly. Determined to make her dream come true, Mrs. Harris scrimps and saves...
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Series
Rip through time volume 1
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English
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"Vancouver police detective Mallory Atkinson is in Edinburgh, Scotland, to be with her beloved grandmother, who is dying. When she's out running, she hears a scream and follows it down an alley. Instead of saving the woman, Mallory is attacked and loses consciousness. She wakes up in an Edinburgh household in 1869. She's in the body of Catriona Mitchell, the 19-year-old housemaid she saw being strangled. She's lucky that Dr. Duncan Gray is her employer...
19) Lady in waiting
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Lady's maid Jenny Penny, a lord's illegitimate daughter, is a lover of fine frocks. But her credit's been cut off at the shops, forcing her to sell her homemade facial cream at night without her employer's knowledge. How could she know it would become the sensation of the ton when society ladies applied "tingle cream" to a most intimate part of their bodies?.Available only in Core 6 & 7.
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Rosen blood volume 4
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After a horrific carriage accident, Stella Violetta awakens in a Gothic mansion to find that her saviors are gorgeous young men. The manor's residents let her stay as a maid, but Stella soon realizes that their allure hides a savage thirst. Dexperate for Stella's affection, Yoel stabs Levi, who reconsiders his desire to protect the other nonhumans. Stella searches through Rosemary's notes to find a way to awaken Yoel after the incident and uncovers...
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