Benedict, Marie
Summary: 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Benedict 2018Glines, Abbi.
Summary: "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Abbi Glines comes the next new adult novel in the Rosemary Beach series, in which we meet Mase, a Texas heartthrob first introduced in Take a Chance who comes to Rosemary Beach to stir things up. I had an urge to fix all her problems. Which was stupid. She was doing fine without me. But something about those big eyes... Mase Colt-Manning has always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GLISmith, Zadie
Summary: From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story--and who deserves to be believed It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the family's housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husband's faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping and did not say goodbye. Beyond her sporadic postcards, Samuel hears nothing from his mother. He misses her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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Summary: Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She's made a mistake so huge, it'll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she's mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2005
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Summary: Janice is a collector of stories. When she starts cleaning for elderly Mrs. B, she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice doesn't have a story, at least not one she can share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAGPatterson, James
Summary: The people closest to you can be your most dangerous enemies.... In this collection, a CIA-agent bride is on her European honeymoon when she and her husband are poisoned--leaving her seventy-two hours to take revenge. When a deal goes bad on a tech executive in Washington, DC, he turns an order to kill his family into a chance to relive his military glory days. And then a Los Angeles doctor is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATBrightwell, Emily
Summary: "Mrs. Jeffries and Inspector Witherspoon should be checking off their Christmas present list but instead they're listing murder suspects in this latest entry of the beloved Victorian Mystery series. Harriet Andover had no intention of dying young like her silly siblings had. She intended to outlive them and outdo them as she always had. But Harriet discovers that the best intentions can lead to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Growing up in a house filled with silence and devoid of emotion, siblings Julian, a scientist who lives a life of seclusion, and Paula, a talented opera singer, must confront and overcome the past when dark secrets resurface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSKendrick, Sharon.
Summary: Cathy is used to making the beds-not slipping between their sheets! Arrogant Prince Xaviero has one rule: once he's taught Cathy everything he knows, their affair will be over. But when the King of Zaffirinthos is taken ill, Xaviero is forced to take up his role as prince regent. The voluptuous curves of meek Cathy still haunt his dreams, and he vows to hold this humble maid to his special kind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KENEdvardsson, M. T.
Summary: "A wealthy couple ends up murdered in the nicest part of town in this compulsively readable, page-turning thriller from M. T. Edvardsson, The Woman Inside. Bill Olsson, recently widowed, is desperate to provide for his daughter, Sally. Struggling to pay rent, he welcomes a lodger into their home: Karla, a law student and aspiring judge, who works as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Her clients...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDVMcCall Smith, Alexander
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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Summary: When her niece Cat travels to a wedding in Italy, Isabel agrees to fill in at Cat's delicatessen. She takes note of a customer named Ian, who is avoiding chocolate-- doctors say it's bad for the new heart he recently recieved. Ian is haunted by memories he can't quite place, prompting Isabel to wonder if his new heart may be the cause. Always keenly interested in matters of the heart, Isabel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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Summary: Hired as a housekeeper to work on the early 1900s Montana homestead of widower Oliver Milliron, the irreverent Rose and her brother, Morris, endeavor to educate the widower's sons while witnessing local efforts on a massive irrigation project.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOIBernstein, Sarah
Summary: "A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings--more than she cares to remember --from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. Soon after she arrives, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Canada 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2000
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Summary: 'Honey, I just want you to have everything you ever wanted.' That's what Jacy's mum always told her. And Jacy felt like she finally did. Newly married and with a baby on the way, Jacy and her new husband, Jed, embark on their first road trip together to visit his father, Dr Ash, in Michigan's far-flung Upper Peninsula. The moment they arrive in the cosy cottage in the lush woods, Jacy feels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ABBWick, Lori.
Summary: When faith and restoration are common ground, can the attraction between two people grow from a whisper of understanding into a proclamation of love?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WICBarelli, Natalie
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Furphies Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARMcCoy, Shirlee
Summary: "Sullivan Bradshaw never dreamed of returning to his hometown of Benevolence, Washington, but when a car crash kills his brother and critically injures his sister-in-law, the die-hard bachelor returns to care for the couples six children and the ancestral farm. The nanny he hires will change everything he ever thought he wanted"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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Summary: "Assigned by the Pinkertons to spy on a suspicious ranch owner, Molly Garner hires on as his housekeeper, closely followed by Wyatt Hunt, who refuses to let her risk it alone. But when danger arises, Wyatt must band together with his problematic brothers to face all the troubles of life and love that suddenly surround them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONSmith, Zadie
Summary: "It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fcition SmithAlexander, Sara
Summary: In a richly romantic novel set in stunning Positano, Italy, Sara Alexander weaves a story of love, family loyalty, and sacrifice spanning five decades ... Nestled into the cliffs in southern Italy's Amalfi coast, Positano is an artist's vision, with rows of brightly hued houses perched above the sea and picturesque staircases meandering up and down the hillside. Santina, still a striking woman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALEBeagin, Jen
Summary: Jen Beagins funny, moving, fearless debut novel introduces an unforgettable character, Monaalmost 24, cleaning houses to get by, emotionally adrift. Handing out clean needles to drug addicts, she falls for a recipient who proceeds to break her heart in unimaginable ways Always just under the surface are her memories of growing up in a chaotic, destructive family from which shes trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press 2015