McKinney, L. L. (Leatrice L.)
Summary: "In this empowering Black queer romance reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, Jane Eyre, the new governess at Thornfield Hall discovers her cruel employer has locked away his wife as revenge for withholding her inheritance and, as his dark plan unfolds, must find a way to save this woman she's come to love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCKHand, Cynthia
Summary: Refusing a job with the Society for the Relocation of Wayward Spirits, Jane Eyre heads to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for Mr. Rochester.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HANTuransky, Carrie.
Summary: "Worlds lie between the marketplaces of India and the halls of a magnificent country estate like Highland Hall. Will Julia be able to find her place when a governess is neither upstairs family nor downstairs help? Missionary Julia Foster loves working alongside her parents, ministering and caring for young girls in India. But when the family must return to England due to illness, she readily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURWillig, Lauren.
Summary: Laura Grey, a veteran governess, joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and thrilling exploits. Instead, she is sent to serve as governess for the children of Andre Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. Jaouen and his arch rival, Gaston Delaroche, are investigating a suspected Royalist plot, and Laura's mission is to report anything suspicious. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WILHand, Cynthia
Summary: You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester--and, Reader, she marries him. Or does she? Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANHornby, Gill
Summary: A richly imagined novel inspired by the true story of Anne Sharp, a governess who became very close with Jane Austen and her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORKline, Christina Baker
Summary: Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kline 2020Ladd, Sarah E.
Summary: "In Regency England, one letter will alter a young woman's fate when it summons her to Briarton Park--an ancient place that holds the secrets of her past and the keys to her future."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LADLivesey, Margot.
Summary: Overcoming a life of hardship and loneliness, Gemma Hardy, a brilliant and determined young woman, accepts a position as an au pair on the remote Orkney Islands where she faces her biggest challenge yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Livesey 2012Boyne, John
Summary: After the death of her father leaves her alone in the world, Eliza is offered a position as a governess at Gaudlin Hall in Norfolk. Arriving at Thorpe station she is almost pushed beneath a train but is saved by two villagers who, although initially friendly, become quiet and uneasy when she mentions the position she has accepted. Arriving at Gaudlin, Eliza meets the two children in her care,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYDe Blasi, Marlena.
Summary: Krakow, 1931. A baby girl is born out of wedlock, and deposited at a remote convent in the French countryside. Amandine is raised by her governess, Solange. As global war looms, the two flee toward Solange's childhood home, and begin a perilous, years-long odyssey across Occupied France-- and deeper into the treacheries of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEBDodd, Christina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DODDodd, Christina.
Summary: A young governess arrives prepared to take chage of six rebellious girls, but finds dealing with their handsome widowed father more difficult.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DODDWhite, Jenny B. (Jenny Barbara)
Summary: "The naked body of an Englishwoman washes up in Ottoman Istanbul wearing a pendant with the sultan's seal. This debut novel captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The murder of an English governess for the royal harem stirs up a crisis at the palace and at the British embassy. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIDe Blasi, Marlena.
Summary: Deemed an illegitimate child by her royal Polish family, Amandine is abandoned as a baby at a French convent. As she grows, Amandine struggles to accept her orphaned state. She longs to put together the missing pieces of her identity, but as WWII engulfs Europe, her time to find answers may be running short.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEBDodd, Christina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DODField, Rachel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEJames, Rebecca
Summary: "Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after Captain Jonathan de Grey's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMLondon, Julia
Summary: "An ill-fated elopement cost English-born governess Bernadette Holly her reputation, her unsuitable lover and any chance of a future match. She has nothing left to fear--not even the bitter, dangerously handsome Scot due to marry her young charge. Naive wallflower Avaline is terrified to wed Rabbie Mackenzie, but if he sends her home, she will be ruined. Bernadette's solution: convince Rabbie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONWillig, Lauren.
Summary: Laura Grey, a veteran governess, joins the Selwick Spy School and her first assignment is serving as governess for the children of Andre Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. Jaouen and his arch rival, Gaston Delaroche, are investigating a suspected Royalist plot to unseat Bonaparte, and Laura's mission is to report any suspicious findings. Soon, Laura and Jaouen are forced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILHunter, Jillian.
Summary: "Courtesan Georgette Lawson entrusts governess Kate Walcott with the care of her unruly children and the writing of her shocking memoirs, but when Colin Boscastle, Georgette's first lover, comes back to restore his honor and avenge his father's murder, Kate's finds her heart at risk"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUNJames, Eloisa
Summary: The handsome, rakish heir to a dukedom, Lord Roland Northbridge Wilde, known to his friends as North, left England two years ago, after being jilted by Miss Diana Belgrave. He returns from war to find that he's notorious: polite society has ruled him "too wild to wed." Diana never meant to tarnish North's reputation, or his heart, but in her rush to save a helpless child, there was no time to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018