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2020., Adult, 607, W F Howes Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: From Chris Brookmyre, winner of the Theakstons and McIllvanney awards for Black Widow, comes a standalone psychological thriller full of twists, lies and betrayal. One family, two holidays, one devastating secret. To new nanny Amanda, the Temple family seem to have it all: the former actress; the famous professor; their three successful grown-up children. But like any family, beneath the smiles and hugs there lurks far darker emotions. Sixteen years earlier, little Niamh Temple died while they were on holiday in Portugal. Now, as Amanda joins the family for a reunion at their seaside villa, she begins to suspect one of them might be hiding something terrible... And suspicion is a dangerous thing.
![Fallen angel [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/~imageCT101445.JPG "Fallen angel [eAudiobook]")
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c2009., Bond Street Books Call No: Fic Moo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Set just after the events of September 2001, it is a story about Tassie Keltjin, a twenty-year-old making her way in a new world and coming of age. Tassie is a (3z(Bsmile-less(3y (Bgirl from the plains of the mid-west. She has come to a university town, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, and Simone de Beauvoir. In between semesters, she takes a part-time job as a nanny for a family that seems mysterious and glamorous to her. Though her liking for children tends to dwindle into boredom, Tassie begins to care for, and protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own. As the year unfolds, she is drawn even deeper into the world of the child and her hovering parents, and her own life back home becomes alien to her. As life reveals itself dramatically and shockingly, Tassie finds herself forever changed <U+2014> less the person she once was, and more and more the stranger she feels herself to be. Under the novel<U+2019>s languid surface, Moore<U+2019>s deft and lyrical writing skillfully illustrates the heart of racism, the shock of war, and the carelessness perpetrated against others in the name of love."--Publisher.
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c2011., Adult, Hyperion-Voice Call No: BLK Fic Bro Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The Nanny Diaries" meets "The Help" in a debut novel that follows an idealistic young woman as she leaves Trinidad for a new life in New York City--as a nanny."--Publisher.
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2019., Adult, William Morrow Call No: MYS Fic Mac Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated. Haunted by the loss, Jo grew up bitter and distant, and eventually left her parents and Lake Hall, their faded aristocratic home, behind. Thirty years later, Jo returns to the house and is forced to confront her troubled relationship with her mother. But when human remains are accidentally uncovered in a lake on the estate, Jo begins to question everything she thought she knew. Then an unexpected visitor knocks on the door and Jo's world is destroyed again. Desperate to piece together the gaping holes in her memory, Jo must uncover who her nanny really was, why she left, and if she can trust her own mother..."--Publisher.
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2018., Adult, Penguin Books Call No: Fic Sli Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Summary Note: "When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau."--From publisher.
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2018., Penguin Books Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: When Myriam decides to return to work as a lawyer after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their son and daughter. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the familyœs chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau. Building tension with every page, The Perfect Nanny is a compulsive, riveting, bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity, motherhood, and madnessand the American debut of an immensely talented writer.
![The Perfect Nanny [eBook] : A Novel](/Library/images/~imageCT84841.JPG "The Perfect Nanny [eBook] : A Novel")
![Secrets [LP]](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Secrets [LP]")
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2018., Adult, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Tully Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The film is about Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.
![Tully [DVD] (2018). Directed by Jason Reitman](/Library/images/~imageCT85718.JPG "Tully [DVD] (2018). Directed by Jason Reitman")
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By Ware, Ruth2019., Simon & Schuster Canada Call No: MYS Fic War Edition: Simon & Schuster Canada Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When Rebecca stumbles across an ad for a live-in nanny, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--with a staggeringly generous salary. And when she arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by the luxurious "smart" house fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture perfect family. What Rebecca doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightmare--one that will end with a child dead and Rebecca in prison awaiting trial for murder. Writing to her lawyer from prison, Rebecca struggles to explain the unravelling events that have led to her incarceration. It wasn't just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn't just the children, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn't even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman, Jack Grant. It was everything. Rebecca knows she's made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behaviour toward the children wasn't always ideal. She's not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she's not guilty--at least not of murder. Which means someone else is. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware's signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time."--.
