Medeiros, Teresa
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: The psychologically charged affairs between residents and servants on a posh London street escalate to violence involving a handsome valet who is sleeping with a lord's wife and daughter, an au pair who aids her mistress's affair, and a disturbed gardener.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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Summary: A couple in a deteriorating relationship are involved in a fatal car accident on their way to an annual wild party at a friend's house deep in the Moroccan desert and must deal with the repercussions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Osborne 2012Kleypas, Lisa.
Summary: Lady Aline Marsden was brought up to make an advantageous marriage to a member of her own class. Instead, she willing gave her innocence to John McKenna, a servant on her father's estate. Their passionate transgression was unforgivable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KLEAlexander, 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 ALEStowe, Harriet Beecher
Summary: Contains three novels on the topics of slavery, romance, and changes in the lifestyles in an old small town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1982
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Summary: Housekeeper Santina becomes deeply enmeshed within the family she works for while she navigates her feelings for her employer and hides secrets that could shatter the home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2012
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Summary: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1995
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Summary: Olivier is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected in the United States by an enigmatic one-armed marquis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARGoudge, Eileen.
Summary: It begins with a betrayal that tears apart childhood friends, Abigail and Lila, when Abigail's mother, the housekeeper for Lila's wealthy family, is summarily banished, casting Abigail from the only home she has ever known. Now, twenty-five years later, Abigail is a self-made successful cookbook author and TV personality. When Lila, who married well and for decades lived the glittering life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GOUCarey, Peter
Summary: This is the story of two men who begin their lives on different ends of the human spectrum. Olivier is an aristocrat, born in France just after the Revolution, while Parrot is the son of an itinerant English printer. Part of Carey's provocative genius is that, even in the title, Parrot is named before Olivier: it's the late 18th century and both men have swallowed the handcuffs of history. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARFaulkner, William
Summary: The story of the tragic Caddy Compson, as seen through the eyes of her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1995
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Summary: Captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India as witnessed through the lives of two women--Sera Dubash, an upper middle-class housewife, and Bhima, an illiterate domestic hardened by a life of loss and despair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UmrFreed, Lynn.
Contents: Under the house -- Foreign student -- The widow's daughter -- Family of shadows -- An error or desire -- Liars, cheats and cowards -- The curse of the appropriate man -- Twilight -- Selina comes to the city -- William -- Songbird -- The first rule of happiness -- Luck -- Ma : a memoir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FreedGoudge, Eileen.
Summary: Twenty-five years after being kicked out of the home of Gwen Meriwhether with her mother as a teenager, Abigail, feeling betrayed by Gwen's daughter Lila, finally gets the chance to settle old scores as she is reunited with Lila.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Press 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOUGreen, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECookson, Catherine.
Summary: When a thirty-four-room mansion becomes available, the newly wealthy manufacturer and retailer Samuel Fairbrother snatches it up along with the staff of servants headed by the butler Maitland, who makes no effort to hide his disdain for his new boss. After Maitland and Fairbrother come to an uneasy truce and years go by Fairbrother's children leave the house, except his daughter Janet who is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998