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Murder takes the stage / by Cambridge, Colleen,author.;
When three people connected to London's Theatre District are found murdered, Phyllida Bright--amateur sleuth and Agatha Christie's esteemed housekeeper--steps up to help with the investigation.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976; Household employees; Murder; Theaters; Women household employees;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Jackie's girl : my life with the Kennedy family / by McKeon, Kathy,author.;
Subjects: Biographies.; McKeon, Kathy.; Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994; Kennedy family.; Household employees; Irish American women; Women household employees;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A man of honor / by Bradford, Barbara Taylor,1933-author.; prequel to:Bradford, Barbara Taylor,1933-Woman of substance.;
"The prequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's New York Times bestselling and dazzling saga A Woman of Substance. Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O'Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to set sail for England, in search of a better life with his mother's brother in Leeds. There, he learns his trade as a navvy, amid the grand buildings and engineering triumphs of one of England's most prosperous cities, and starts to dream of greater things ... And then, high on the Yorkshire moors, in the mists of a winter morning he meets a kitchen maid called Emma Harte. In A Man of Honor, the true Blackie O'Neill is revealed. For the first time, readers discover his story: his tumultuous life, the obstacles facing him, the desire he has to throw off the impotence of poverty and move up in the world. Like his friend Emma, he is ambitious, driven, disciplined, and determined to make it to the top. And like Emma Harte, he is an unforgettable character for the millions who loved the book"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Businessmen; Irish; Man-woman relationships; Orphans; Women household employees;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A man of honor [sound recording] / by Bradford, Barbara Taylor,1933-author.; Kelly, Aidan(Actor),narrator.; prequel to:Bradford, Barbara Taylor,1933-Woman of substance.[sound recording].; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Aidan Kelly."The prequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's New York Times bestselling and dazzling saga A Woman of Substance. Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O'Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to set sail for England, in search of a better life with his mother's brother in Leeds. There, he learns his trade as a navvy, amid the grand buildings and engineering triumphs of one of England's most prosperous cities, and starts to dream of greater things ... And then, high on the Yorkshire moors, in the mists of a winter morning he meets a kitchen maid called Emma Harte. In A Man of Honor, the true Blackie O'Neill is revealed. For the first time, readers discover his story: his tumultuous life, the obstacles facing him, the desire he has to throw off the impotence of poverty and move up in the world. Like his friend Emma, he is ambitious, driven, disciplined, and determined to make it to the top. And like Emma Harte, he is an unforgettable character for the millions who loved the book"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Businessmen; Irish; Man-woman relationships; Orphans; Women household employees;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive / by Land, Stephanie,author.; Ehrenreich, Barbara,writer of foreword.;
A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Land, Stephanie.; Women household employees; Working class; Single mothers; Working poor; Poverty;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Death at a Highland wedding / by Armstrong, Kelley,author.;
"Death at a Highland Wedding is the fourth installment in New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's gripping Rip Through Time Novels. After slipping 150 years into the past, modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson has embraced her new life in Victorian Scotland as housemaid Catriona Mitchel. Although it isn't what she expected, she's developed real, meaningful relationships with the people around her and has come to love her role as assistant to undertaker Dr. Duncan Gray and Detective Hugh McCreadie. Mallory, Gray, and McCreadie are on their way to the Scottish Highlands for McCreadie's younger sister's wedding. The McCreadies and the groom's family, the Cranstons, have a complicated history which has made the weekend quite uncomfortable. But the Cranston estate is beautiful so Gray and Mallory decide to escape the stifling company and set off to explore the castle and surrounding wilderness. They discover that the groom, Archie Cranston, a slightly pompous and prickly man, has set up deadly traps in the woods for the endangered Scottish wildcats, and they soon come across a cat who's been caught and severely injured. Oddly, Mallory notices the cat's injuries don't match up with the intricacies of the trap. These strange irregularities, combined with the secretive and erratic behavior of the groom, put Mallory and Duncan on edge. And then when one of the guests is murdered, they must work fast to uncover the murderer before another life is lost. New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's unique time travel mystery series continues to entertain as Mallory adjusts to life in the 1870s"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Time-travel fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Time travel; Trapping; Weddings; Wildcat; Women detectives; Women household employees;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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I am you : a novel / by Redel, Victoria,author.;
"At eight years old, Gerta Pieters is forced to disguise herself as a boy and sent to work for a genteel Dutch family. When their brilliant and beautiful daughter Maria sees through Gerta's ruse, she insists that Gerta accompany her to Amsterdam and help her enter the elite, male-dominated art world. While Maria rises in the ranks of society as a painting prodigy, Gerta makes herself invaluable in every way: confidante, muse, lover. But as Gerta steps into her own talents, their relationship fractures into a complex web of obsession and rivalry-and the secrets they keep threaten to unravel everything. A mesmerizing historical novel, I Am You is a meditation on gender, an ode to artistic creation, and an unforgettable love story that reimagines the life of renowned still life painter Maria van Oosterwijck during Dutch's Golden Age"--
Subjects: Lesbian fiction.; Queer fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Lesbians; Secrecy; Social classes; Woman-woman relationships; Women artists; Women household employees; Women painters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Two truths and a murder / by Cambridge, Colleen,author.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: MURDER TAKES THE STAGE, ISBN 9781496742599. Agatha Christies trusted housekeeper, Phyllida Bright, has become an amateur sleuth in her own right, using her little grey cells to solve crimes. When a party game leads to murder, she decides to crash the investigation to unmask the killer.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976; Dinners and dining; Household employees; Murder; Sisters; Sisters; Women household employees;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Ilo ilo [videorecording] / by Ang, Hwee Sim.; Bayani, Angeli.; Chen, Anthony,1984-; Chen, Tianwen,1963-; Hadi, Wayuni A.; Koh, Jia Ler.; Yeo, Yann Yann,1977-; Film Movement (Firm); Fisheye Pictures.; Ngee Ann Polytechnic.School of Film & Media Studies.; Singapore Film Commission.;
Director of photography, Benoit Soler ; editors, Hoping Chen, Joanne Cheong ; screenplay, Anthony Chen.Yeo Yann Yann, Chen Tianwenn, Angeli Bayani, and introducing Koh Jialer.Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region.PG.DVD; Dolby surround; region 1; Enhanced for widescreen TV (16x9).
Subjects: Families; Feature films.; Foreign films; Motion pictures, Chinese.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Women household employees;
© 2014., Film Movement,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A corruption of blood / by Parry, Ambrose,author.;
Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is pleading for his help to escape the hangman. Back at 52 Queen Street, Sarah Fisher has set her sights on learning to practise medicine. Almost everyone seems intent on dissuading her from this ambition, but when word reaches her that a woman has recently obtained a medical degree despite her gender, Sarah decides to seek her out. Raven's efforts to prove his erstwhile adversary's innocence are failing and he desperately needs Sarah's help. Putting their feelings for one another aside, their investigations will take them to both extremes of Edinburgh's social divide, where they discover that wealth and status cannot alter a fate written in the blood.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870; Medical students; Murder; Physicians; Women household employees;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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