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Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Exploited by the white family that took him in as a servant fifteen years earlier, groundskeeper August Sitwell becomes tragically enraged by how his employers mindlessly profit from the talents of a hired Black cook.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, Sylvie Pelletier leaves her family's Colorado mountain cabin to start work at a wealthy mine-owner's manor house and is fascinated by he luxury around her until she discovers the family's philosophy is at odds with the unfair labor practices that built their fortune.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Escaping from a colonial settlement in the wilderness, a servant girl, with nothing but her wits, a few possessions and some faith, is tested beyond the limits of her imagination, forcing her to question her belief of everything her own civilization taught her.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1904, nine-year-old Samantha, an orphan living with her wealthy grandmother, and her servant friend Nellie have a midnight adventure when they try to find out what has happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job.
Author
Language
English
Description
After suffering through an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiancé's murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
Newly illustrated ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Preparing for the arrival of an important visitor, a wacky housekeeper follows her employer's instructions with humorous results.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Hyperion paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The intertwined lives of the prominent Averley family and the servants of Somerton Court are forever changed when an old secret comes to light.
Author
Series
Love across the sea volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
"Lily secures a job as maid in a grand manor in Austin, Texas. But even far from home, her past lurks around every corner. When Lily Donnelly arrives at the Cutlers' famed Butterfly Mansion in 1899, the massive house and unfamiliar duties threaten to overwhelm her. Victorian Austin is lavish, highly political, and intimidating, but with the help of the other servants, Lily resolves to prove herself to her new employers. Then, while serving at an elegant...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
218 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
11) Carnegie's maid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl... For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the forest meets the shore, Leah's country life is as natural as the Loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky. When an accident takes her father's life, Leah is wrenched from her small community...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary Poppins returns to 17 Cherry Tree Lane to visit the Banks family following a personal loss, and, with the help of Jack the lamplighter, brings joy and wonder back into their lives.
16) Still me
Author
Series
Me Before You volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the superrich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her job and New...
17) The au pair
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An addictive, highly commercial suspense novel featuring a grand estate, terrible secrets, and a young woman who bears witness to it all. If V.C. Andrews, Kate Morton, and Lexie Elliot had a love child, Emma Rous and THE AU PAIR would be it. Seraphine Mayes and her twin brother Danny were born in the middle of summer at their family's estate on the Norfolk coast. Within hours of their birth, their mother threw herself from the cliffs, the au pair...