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101) The Residence
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
America's First Families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. Full of stories and details by turns dramatic, humorous, and heartwarming, This reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers, and others who tend to the needs of the President and First Family....
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 16
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When the literal-minded Amelia Bedelia helps out at her doctor's office one busy day, nothing seems to go quite right until Amelia begins to treat the impatient patients.
Author
Series
Housemaid novels volume 2
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I...
104) Snail trail
Author
Publisher
Tick Tock, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A snail causes chaos for Gail.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Original UK ed.
Language
English
Description
The Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part: heir Matthew Crawley and footman Thomas Barrow are off fighting, while Lady Grantham and Isobel Crawley are squabbling over whether Downton should be used as a hospital. Lady Mary is seeing a wealthy newspaper magnate while Lady Edith becomes much warmer and Lady Sybil seeks to ingratiate herself...
107) Housemaid
Author
Series
Housemaid novels volume 1
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole...
Author
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
An official companion to the hit series shares insights into daily and seasonal life for upstairs and downstairs residents at the early twentieth-century estate, incorporating exclusive photos from the show's fifth season.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
"The Chronicles of Downton Abbey, carefully pieced together at the heart and hearth of the ancestral home of the Crawleys, takes readers deeper into the story of every important member of the Downton estate.This lavish, entirely new book focuses on each character individually, examining their motivations, their actions, and the inspirations behind them."--
112) Renfield
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Dracula sucks edition.
Language
English
Description
Renfield, the tortured aide to history's most narcissistic boss, Dracula. Renfield is forced to procure his master's prey and do his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there's a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness. If only he can figure out how to end his codependency.
113) Cluny Brown
Series
Criterion collection volume 997
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch. Cluny Brown is an irrepressible heroine with a zeal for plumbing. Sent to work as a parlormaid at a stuffy country manor, she proceeds to turn the household upside down with plenty of help from Adam Belinski, an eccentric Continental exile who has fled the Nazis but is still worried...
114) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Director-approved special edition ; widescreen.
Language
Central American Indian
Description
Looks at the life of an early-1970s, middle-class family in Mexico City through the eyes of their indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running.
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