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261) The book of salt
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Appears on list
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being accused of murdering his soon-to-be ex-wife. And though there was never enough evidence to have him arrested, his reputation is in tatters as well as his soul. He needs sanctuary. He needs Bluff House.
264) Can't I go instead
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Two women's lives and identities are intertwined-through World War II and the Korean War-revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the 20th century. "Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history and transforming them into moving, compelling, and uplifting stories." -Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author Can't I Go Instead follows the lives of the daughter of a Korean nobleman and her maidservant...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Augsburgo, 1913. La joven Marie entra a trabajar en la cocina de la impresionante villa de los Melzer, una rica familia dedicada a la industria textil. Mientras Marie, una pobre chica proveniente de un orfanato, lucha por abrirse paso entre los criados, los Melzer esperan con ansia el comienzo de la nueva temporada invernal de baile, momento en el que se presentará en sociedad la bella Katharina. Solo Paul, el heredero, permanece ajeno al bullicio,...
266) The poisoned house
Author
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
As the widowed master of an elegant house in Victorian-era London slips slowly into madness and his tyrannical housekeeper takes on more power, a ghostly presence distracts a teenaged maidservant with clues to a deadly secret.
267) The kitchen boy
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Presents a novel based on the 1918 Bolshevik revolutionary murder of Czar Nicholas II and the rest of the Russian royal family as told from the perspective of the event's only surviving witness, a young kitchen boy.
Author
Series
Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Just as Inspector Witherspoon's staff prepares for the long-awaited wedding of Betsy and Smythe, a Yuletide murder falls in the Inspector's lap. A middle-aged spinster has been killed and Mrs. Jeffries' household will have to put aside its holiday spirit until the case is solved.
270) Confessions
Author
Description
He's the rich boy: Young love, that was what Nadine and Hayden had. The kind of love that captures the soul and never dies. That is, until Hayden's father swindled Nadine's family and they didn't see each other for thirteen years. When his father suddenly dies, Hayden returns home to the family's lakeside mansion and to his first love.
He's my soldier boy: Dark, sexy and dangerous, young Ben Powell could steal kisses as deep and stormy as Whitefire...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy in a castle in nineteenth-century England, becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts, which is also connected to the pursuit of a very eligible and wealthy young lady's affections.
272) A spy in the house
Author
Series
The Agency volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
An enchanting and heart-warming story of a Parisian housemaid who transforms the lives of the people around her. Deep in the heart of Paris, in the elegant Sixteenth Arrondissement, at the top of the smart apartment building at Number 34bis Avenue Victor-Hugo, on the sixth floor at the end of a long landing, there is a housemaid's simple room. This is Fatima Monsour's new home. She has left her home on a beautiful Tunisian island to work for the exacting...
274) The blood countess
Author
Series
Lady slayers volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
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.
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where she meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea.
277) The Golem's latkes
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel visits the Emperor, leaving a new housemaid to prepare for his Hanukkah party, but returns to find that she has misused the clay man he created. Includes historical and cultural notes.
278) Strange star
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Told primarily by servant Felix, a former slave, Lord Byron and friends gather to tell ghost stories on a stormy night in 1816 Switzerland, but a scarred girl arrives with her own dark and dangerous tale.
Pub. Date
2015
Description
What goes on behind-the-scenes to get the manners of 1900s Britain exactly right on Downton Abbey? Discover the secrets of how the aristocratic set dined and dressed, how they married and made money, how they interacted with the servants, and above all why they behaved as they did. Includes revealing interviews with leading cast members.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn.