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2023.
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English
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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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Morrie Morgan novels (Ivan Doig) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the
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Westward chronicles volume 2
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English
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Rachel has secured herself a rare position at the newest Harvey House in New Mexico. She looks forward to a new life there, far from the memories and longings of her heart--only to find that the very man her heart refuses to forget will be working right alongside her! Westward Chronicles Book 2.
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Her family's new organized schedule for easy housekeeping makes thirteen-year-old Anastasia confident that she can run the household while her mother is out of town, until she hits unexpected complications.
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English
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Loyal. Beautiful. Professional. Impeccably organized. Potentially lethal. Sarah Stevens is a woman with many distinct qualities. First and foremost a butler par excellence, skilled at running large households smoothly and efficiently, she is also a trained bodyguard and expert marksman–indispensable to her elderly employer, a courtly gentleman whom Sarah has come to respect and love as a father.
Then one night she thwarts a burglary in progress,...
Then one night she thwarts a burglary in progress,...
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Miss Julia series volume 4
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English
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Despite her increasing concerns at the exploits marking her boyfriend's mid-life crisis, sharp-tongued southerner Miss Julia launches a fund-raiser to save her housekeeper's home from being lost to the schemes of a greedy landlord.
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Sophie Hartley books volume 2
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English
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After their mother sets up a new list of household chores for them to do, Sophie and her siblings argue about housekeeping and finally go on strike.
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Tucker Mills trilogy volume 2
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English
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When faith and restoration are common ground, can the attraction between two people grow from a whisper of understanding into a proclamation of love?
11) Death of a dyer
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Will Rees mysteries volume 2
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English
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Returning to his family farm in 1796 and considering a relationship with his housekeeper, widower Will Rees is shattered by the news of an old friend's murder and is unable to refuse a request to investigate.
12) The last summer
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English
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In the summer of 1914, Clarissa Granville falls in love against her parents' wishes with Tom Cuthbert, the housekeeper's son, and finds the relationship further tested by the harsh realities of World War I and the post-war dark years.
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Boxcar children volume 79
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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While staying at the Crooked House, the family home of their housekeeper Mrs. McGregor, the Aldens try to solve a riddle that will lead them to a hidden treasure.
14) Flights of fancy
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English
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Miss Isadora Delafield may be an heiress, but her life is far from carefree. When her mother begins pressuring her to marry an elderly and uncouth duke, she escapes from the high society world she's always known and finds herself to be an unlikely candidate for a housekeeper position in rural Pennsylvania. Mr. Ian MacKenzie is known for his savvy business sense and has built his reputation and fortune completely on his own merits. But when his adopted...
15) Patterns Of Love
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English
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"In rural Iowa, life is both the planter and uprooter of dreams. As love, long delayed, springs to life in the heart of a young Swedish immigrant, one man struggles with his withered ambitions--and new blessings that could take their place if he would but allow them room."--Page 4 of cover.
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Isabel and her fianc�e know who they are and where they come from. But not everybody is so fortunate. Jane Cooper, a visiting Australian philosopher on sabbatical in Edinburgh, has more questions than answers. Adopted at birth, Jane is trying to find her biological father, but all she knows about him is that he was a student in Edinburgh years ago. When she asks for Isabel's help in this seemingly impossible search ... well, of course Isabel obliges....
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English
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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 hired a lawyer--and Samantha...
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English
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She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard as she cleaned a sink? Before long (as she dusted a sitting room or defrosted a fridge) she noticed people were telling her their stories. Perhaps they always had done, but now it is different, now the stories are reaching out to her and she gathers them to her…
When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs B – a shrewd and tricksy woman in her nineties...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Teaflet navigates interruptions while scrambling to clean up in time for a neatness inspection, while her brother, Roog, bakes yummy treats for their annual strawberry jam party
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