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Amelia Bedelia series volume 2
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English
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Preparing for the arrival of an important visitor, a wacky housekeeper follows her employer's instructions with humorous results.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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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...
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English
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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,...
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English
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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
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Amelia Bedelia series volume 15
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A series of misunderstandings leads the literal-minded Amelia Bedelia to run for mayor.
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Kushiel's legacy volume 1
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English
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Sold into indentured servitude at the exotic Night Court as a child, Phèdre nó Delaunay faces a difficult choice between honor and duty as she deals with a world of conspiracy and betrayal.
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This woven kingdom volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can't put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom--and the world"--
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Kanna's father, the great chaos dragon warrior Kimun Kamuy, has appeared to take Kanna back to the world of dragons. Kanna will go if it means finally getting her father's approval, but Kimun Kamuy is more interested in Kanna as a comrade-in-arms than a daughter. And what is the mysterious mage Azad up to? Suspicious and still hoping for a reconciliation, Kobayashi and Tohru head for the world of dragons to try and stop a disastrous war before it...
13) Grim lovelies
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Grim lovelies volume 1
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English
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When their mistress is murdered, Anouk and her fellow beasties have only three days until their enchantment ends and they are transformed back into animals, but in seeking to remain human, they threaten the hierarchy imposed by the society of magic handlers in Paris called the Haute.
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Jane Prescott novels volume 1
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English
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New York City, 1910. Ladies' maid Jane Prescott has taken a position with the Benchley family, dismissed by the city's elite as 'new money.' Invisible until she's needed, Jane has a power they do not-- she understands the rules of high society. At a party for Charlotte Benchley's engagement to notorious playboy Norrie Newsome, the groom-to-be is found murdered. There are many with grudges to bear: from the family Norrie was supposed to marry into,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Kobayashi and Tohru share their feelings, Kanna plays with her dad, Fafnir runs away from home, Ilulu and Lucoa cause trouble...it's another typical day with dragons. But then Telne appears with a big announcement that threatens this community's harmony.
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Amelia Bedelia series volume 16
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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When the literal-minded Amelia Bedelia helps out at her doctor's office one busy day, nothing seems to go quite right until Amelia begins to treat the impatient patients.
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Amelia Bedelia (Chapter books) volume 10
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When she is asked to be a flower girl in Aunt Mary's beach wedding, Amelia Bedelia helps plan and prepare before the big day.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Swamped with work and surrounded by dragons, the normally unshakable Miss Kobayashi begins to hear a strange voice. Meanwhile, a mysterious "inverted scale" is growing on Tohru, and a certain meddlesome mage takes up a new job in the human world. Overcoming the boundaries of race, the relationships between Miss Kobayashi and her supernatural circle begin to change through the course of daily life. Slowly but surely, they approach a new stage!!
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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While attending a house party in the countryside, lady's companion to the wealthy widow Mrs. Matilda Frogerton, Lady Caroline Morton finds things not as they seem when an elderly family member is murdered and attempts to solve the crime with an unexpected ally.
Options for the penniless daughter of a deceased earl are few in Regency England, so following the death of her father, the Earl of Morton, and the discovery that she and her much younger...
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