Murphy, Emily Bain
Summary: "In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina and uses her magic to investigate her father's mysterious death while working for the same family years ago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MURFredericks, Mariah
Summary: Through her exquisite prose, sharp observation and deft plotting, Mariah Fredericks invites us into the heart of a changing New York in her remarkable debut adult novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M FREAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: Fern and her mother have always lived as servants in Wyndemere House, the mansion of the Davenport family. She developed a friendship with Dr. Davenport's son, Ryder, and enjoyed free range of the estate. When Dr. Davenport remarries, his new wife has very different ideas about a servant's place. Now Fern and her mother are subject to cruel punishments, harsh conditions, and aren't even allowed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ANDEnderle, Dotti
Summary: When Malcolm spots an advertisement for Mystic Mack's Grow A Ghost, he jumps at the chance to have a butler ghost to do his chores and homework, and spy on his sister--but soon things start to go wrong, and this ghost proves difficult to get rid of.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ENDAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: A servant's daughter and a doctor's son who were raised in the same household develop a romantic relationship that is threatened by the doctor's new wife. "Ever since Fern could remember, she and her mother have lived as servants in Wyndemere House, the old gothic mansion of the Davenport family. She may have been a servant, but Fern developed a sweet friendship with Dr. Davenport's son, Ryder,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Andrews 2018Resau, Laura.
Summary: A child in Ecuador is sent to be the servant of a rich mestizo family where she is mistreated. She teaches herself to read and write and escapes, but she is lost between two cultures. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC RESLee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)
Summary: "1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Lee 2019Goka, Ruby Yayra
Summary: Ghana. Eldest of four girls, Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother's old school friends. She has to accept: her wages will feed her family, help her sisters stay in school, and ensure that her mother won't have to worry about them. Amerley's move to Accra isn't easy, but she soon settles into her new life away from her small village-- until she is raped by the son of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOKMueller, Jenna
Summary: Cinderella is too busy cleaning and fixing things around the house that she runs out of time to get ready for the ball with her stepsisters, but then her Fairy Godmother shows up to help the aspiring interior designer and Clementine go to the party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUEGilbert, Julie
Summary: In 1620 an orphaned fifteen-year-old servant girl joins Separatists seeking religious freedom and others aboard the Mayflower as they undertake a perilous journey to the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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Summary: While visiting an old castle in England, Samantha and Nellie solve mysteries involving a ghost and some missing rare books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCParish, Herman
Summary: When she is asked to be a flower girl in Aunt Mary's beach wedding, Amelia Bedelia helps plan and prepare before the big day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PARGiordano, Paolo
Summary: "When a young married couple hire a middle-aged widow during the wife, Nora's, difficult pregnancy, they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A--maid, nanny, and confidante--becomes the glue in their household, and over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIOMillás García, Juan José
Summary: "Laid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antiques market, he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the seemingly idyllic home of a husband, wife, and their internet-addicted teenage daughter. There, he sneaks from the shadows to serve as an invisible butler, becoming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILFlower, Amanda
Summary: "Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. January 1855 Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was pouring rain on the day of her ever-important job interview at the Dickinson home in Amherst, Massachusetts. When she arrived late,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2022
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Summary: "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 theforest 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUUmansky, Kaye.
Summary: Capable and hardworking ten-year-old Clover Twig takes a job as housekeeper for a messy witch, Demelza, but while Demelza is away Clover and an accident-prone neighbor boy must defend the weird cottage from the witch's evil sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC UMATruong, Monique T. D.
Summary: Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonized Vietnam and his days cooking for the doyennes of the Lost Generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUMaxwell, Alyssa
Summary: "As England recovers from its costly involvement in the Great War, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, find the steady comforts of their lives unsettled by a local case of murder"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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Summary: Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had never met in a remote manor house, where he learns that his family suffers from a curse that allows him to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs hatch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2008
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Skye 2008Popovic, Lana
Summary: In 1578 Hungary, sixteen-year-old Anna is elevated from scullery maid to chambermaid by the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Báthory, falling completely under the Countess's spell until Anna realizes that she is not a friend but a prisoner of the increasingly cruel and murderous Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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Summary: "The Reverend Albert Canning and his naive wife, Hester, find their idyllic lives in a sleepy Berkshire village changed forever by two new arrivals--Cat, a new maid, and Robin Durant, a leading expert in the occult, who soon becomes an object of fascination and desire, which leads to murder"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBSuri, Tasha
Summary: "Set in a world inspired by historical India, The Jasmine Throne begins a sweeping new epic fantasy trilogy in which a captive princess and a servant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies--and eventually, much more than allies--on a dark journey to save their empire. Imprisoned by her tyrannical brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURSherman, Susan
Summary: "Set in the early 1900s, the novel follows young Lucia Rutkowski who, thanks to the influence of her beloved grandmother, escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a kitchen maid in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the bustling city of Paris. Too talented for her lowly position, Lucia is thrown out on the street. Her only recourse is to take a job working for two disorganized, rather poor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2017