Catalog Search Results
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 660 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The saga of the aristocratic Bellamy family and their loyal and lively servants. Real-life events from 1903-1930 are incorporated into the stories of the Bellamy household. Season one takes place from November, 1903 through June, 1909.
Author
Description
Cleaner Janice knows that it is in people's stories that you really get to know them. From recently-widowed Fiona and her son Adam; to opera-singing Geordie; and the awful Mrs 'YeahYeahYeah' and her fox terrier, Decius, Janice has a unique insight into the community around her. When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs B - a shrewd and tricksy woman in her nineties - she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the...
Author
Series
House of secrets (V. C. Andrews) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Working as a servant at a gothic mansion, Fern develops a close bond with the son of her wealthy employer before becoming subject to the new lady of the estate, a cruel mistress who interferes with the young couple's plans for the prom by exploiting family secrets.
5) Like family
Author
Formats
Description
"When a young married couple hire a middle-aged widow during the wife's, Nora's, difficult pregnancy, they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A--maid, nanny, and confidante--becomes the glue in their household, and over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. But the delicate fabric of the young family comes undone when Signora...
6) Longbourn
Author
Description
A reimagining of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" from the perspectives of its below-stairs servants captures the drama of the Bennet household from the sideline viewpoint of Sara, an orphaned housemaid, who spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
61 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Description
In 1904, nine-year-old Samantha, an orphan living with her wealthy grandmother, and her servant friend Nellie have a midnight adventure when they try to find out what has happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Tucked away among Devon's rolling green hills, Mallowan Hall combines the best of English tradition with the modern conveniences of 1930. Housekeeper Phyllida Bright, as efficient as she is personable, manages the large household with an iron fist in her very elegant glove. In one respect, however, Mallowan Hall stands far apart from other picturesque country houses... The manor is home to archaeologist Max Mallowan and his famous wife, Agatha Christie....
Author
Series
Tucker Mills trilogy volume 2
Formats
Description
When faith and restoration are common ground, can the attraction between two people grow from a whisper of understanding into a proclamation of love?
Author
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking,...
Author
Series
Housemaid novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 20 cm
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...
Author
Formats
Description
"Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, thirteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hostess duties borne by the wife of a rising political star. Ana bears witness to the evolution of Lincoln's views on equality and the Union and observes in full complexity the psyche of his bold, polarizing wife, Mary. Along with her African American friend Cal, Ana encounters...
14) Amelia Bedelia
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
A literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos in the Rogers household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.
Author
Description
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.
Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, took classes online...
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
3 digital videodiscs (ca. 368 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
Author
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
ix, 258 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
In Missouri in 1926, fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin discovers what family truly means when her father hires her out for the summer as a companion to a country doctor's invalid mother.
18) The hired girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself -- because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm...
19) Gloom town
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Rory and his friend Izzy try to foil the plans of Lord Foxglove, for whom Rory works as a valet, and his inhuman accomplices from taking over the world.--
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request