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Maid for the millionaire? Angelica Witherspoon is hopeful that a housekeeping job is the fresh start she's been looking for. Until she arrives at the remote lakeside mansion full of enthusiasm and has the door slammed in her face! Reclusive millionaire Jefferson Stone clearly stated chatterboxes need not apply, but Angelica is tenacious, and reluctantly he gives her a trial. Recently widowed, Jefferson has cut himself off from the world, but Angelica's...
3) Housekeeping
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Newly reissued as a Picador Modern Classic, Marilynne Robinson's brilliant, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning first novel
Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake...
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2005
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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. Her employers have no idea they’ve...
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. Her employers have no idea they’ve...
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"The people closest to you can be your most dangerous enemies in this heart-pounding collection of 3 brand-new thrillers from the master of suspense. 3 Days to Live: A CIA-agent bride is on her European honeymoon when she and her husband are poisoned--leaving her seventy-two hours to take revenge (with Duane Swierczynski). Women and Children First: When a deal goes bad on a tech executive in Washington, DC, he turns an order to kill his family into...
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Tucker Mills trilogy volume 2
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Through a hard turn of events, Reese Thackery has become an indentured servant. When the owner of her contract dies, the bank has rights to her fate. Conner Kingsley, the son of the bank's owner, comes to Tucker Mills to investigate and soon releases Reese from obligation and hires her to keep house for him.
Reese is grateful for freedom but unsure of her other feelings for Conner. Yet, as her emotional hurts heal, and her faith blossoms, Reese allows...
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Recovering from a terrible car accident, world-renowned playboy Luis Martinez is bored, grumpy and frustrated. He's sick of nurses fussing over him, so he fires the lot and demands his sweet, innocent housekeeper massage him back to health! Carly Conner has spent her life trying not to be noticed -- but now, with her boss looking at her differently, every day the tantalizing tension between them grows. After Luis whisks her away to his villa in the...
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Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2009.
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Large print edition.
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287 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
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English
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Izzy Makepeace's only option is to take a housekeeping job with the powerful Garcia family. Spanish billionaire Cayo Garcia thinks he's seen Izzy's type before: out for all she can get! But then her innocence surprises him; sweet Isabel is ripe for seduction. Cayo is used to having his demands met - and Izzy's position as housekeeper puts her directly at his beck and call!
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 1
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2004
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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247 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 2
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2005
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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261 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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English
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The woman who made him smile again... Housekeeper Jo Anderson gets the shock of her life when she meets her new boss! Six months ago millionaire Mac MacCallum was a charismatic celebrity chef -- now he's scarred and reclusive... The last thing Mac wants is a woman determined to make him confront his demons -- especially when Jo clearly has her own! Why else would someone so full of beauty and zest for life feel like the plainest woman in Australia?...
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2023.
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English
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"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 series of unfortunate events occurs--collective bovine...
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Howard Books
Pub. Date
2014
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First Howard Books trade paperbacks edition.
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vii, 369 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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When Hope, a young Amish widow, takes on the role of housekeeper for the New York crime writer who purchased her family's farm, the two discover they share a strange past and a burgeoning love.
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Lillian Porter is thrilled to accept a nanny position out west, until she arrives and hears troubling rumors that her employer caused his wife's death. But the accusation doesn't align with the man she comes to know--and love. When Woody is arrested on suspicion of attacking his housekeeper, can Lillian find the truth in time to save them both from tragedy?
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 3
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Pantheon
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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When friends from Dallas introduce her to Tom Bruce, a Texas tycoon, Isabel Dalhousie turns sleuth to investigate Tom's young fiancée, who may be more interested in Tom's money than in Tom.
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"Emma Hayes has gone from making hotel magnate Cesare Falconeri's bed to running his household, including handing out expensive parting gifts to his numerous conquests! But each time, it's chipped away at her heart. Until one night, inhibitions lowered, she reaches for what she's always wanted. With one disastrous marriage behind him Cesare vows never to go there again. But when his indiscretion with Emma has consequences, Cesare must break his own...
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"The second in the delightful Dear Miss Hermione mystery series from Anastasia Hastings--when you represent the best-loved Agony Aunt in Britain, fielding questions from both irate housekeepers and heartbroken mothers is par for the course... "Dear Miss Hermione--what is a mother to do?" Sensible Violet Manville and her very ladylike half-sister Sephora are absolutely bored, thank you very much. And though neither of them would ever admit it aloud,...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
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261 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Isabel Dalhousie helps a new friend discover the identity of her father. But Isabel also manages to find time for her own concerns: her young son, Charlie, already walking and talking; her housekeeper, Grace, whose spiritualist has lately been doubling as a financial adviser; her niece Cat's latest relationship; and the pressing question of when and how Isabel and Jamie should finally get married.
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