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2019., Canongate Call No: SC MYS Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances. Simpson's protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher are determined to clear their patron's name. But with Raven battling against the dark side of his own nature, and Sarah endeavouring to expand her own medical knowledge beyond what society deems acceptable for a woman, the pair struggle to understand the cause of the deaths. Will and Sarah must unite and plunge into Edinburgh's deadliest streets to clear Simpson's name. But soon they discover that the true cause of these deaths has evaded suspicion purely because it is so unthinkable."--Provided by publisher.
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-- Downton Abbey.By Fellowes, Julian Croucher, Chris, 1981- Neame, Gareth Marchant, Nigel Trubridge, Liz Eaton, Rebecca, 1947- Simpson, Susanne Bonneville, Hugh Carmichael, Laura, 1986- Carter, Jim, 1948- Cassidy, Raquel, 1968- Coyle, Brendan Dockery, Michelle, 1981- Doyle, Kevin, 1961- Fox, Michael. Froggatt, Joanne, 1980- Goode, Matthew, 1978- James, Lily, 1989- James-Collier, R2016., PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Fic Downton 6 Edition: Original UK edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Downton Abbey Volume: 6Summary Note: The year is 1925. Momentous changes threaten the great house, its owners, and its servants, while past scandals continue to loom. Return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the sixth and final season to discover what will finally become of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world. Secrets and rifts threaten the unity of the family, while those below stairs continue to navigate social changes which put their futures in jeopardy.
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2009., Adult, Penguin Audio Call No: CD Fic Sto Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.
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By Green, Brunson Columbus, Chris Barnathan, Michael Taylor, Tate Howard, Bryce Dallas, 1981- Tyson, Cicely Stone, Emma Chastain, Jessica, 1977- Vogel, Mike Spencer, Octavia Davis, Viola, 1965- Spacek, Sissy Janney, Allison Goldblatt, Stephen, 1945- Winborne, Hughes Newman, Thomas, 1955- Stockett, Kathryn Dreamworks Pictures Reliance Entertainment (Firm) Participant[2011]., Touchstone Home Entertainment Call No: BLK DVD Fic Help Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
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2009., Adult, Thorndike Press Call No: LP Fic Sto Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.
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2008., Adult, Atria Books Call No: Fic Mor Edition: 1st Atria Books Hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for decades. Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they -- and Grace -- know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the story of Grace's youth during the last days of Edwardian aristocratic privilege shattered by war, of the vibrant twenties and the changes she witnessed as an entire way of life vanished forever. The novel is full of secrets -- some revealed, others hidden forever, reminiscent of the romantic suspense of Daphne du Maurier. It is also a meditation on memory, the devastation of war and a beautifully rendered window into a fascinating time in history."--Publisher description.
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2009., Picador Call No: Fic Oga Edition: 1st Picador ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: She is a housekeeper by trade, a single mom by choice, shy, brilliant, and starting a new tour of duty in the home of an aging professor. He is the professor, a mathematical genius, capable of limitless kindness and intuitive affection, but the victim of a mysterious accident that has rendered him unable to remember anything for longer than eighty minutes. Root, the housekeeper's ten-year-old son, combines his mother's sympathy with a sensitive curiosity all his own. Over the course of a few months in 1992, these three develop a profoundly affecting friendship, based on a shared love of mathematics and baseball, that will change each of their lives permanently.
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c2013., Adult, Cormorant Books Call No: Fic Rut Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in Spain and Mexico during the 1930s, Matadora tells the story of Luna Caballero Garcia, an impoverished and intrepid servant attempting to make her name in the bullring at a time when it was illegal for a girl to do so.
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2023., Adult, William Morrow Call No: Fic Jas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The wealthy island nation of Singapore seems like an oasis of luxury and order, but it owes everything to the immigrant women no one sees. Corazon, Donita, and Angel are Filipina domestic workers--part of the wave of women sent to Singapore to be cleaners, maids, and caregivers in its decadent homes. A veteran domestic worker, Corazon had retired back to the Philippines for good, but she has returned to Singapore under mysterious circumstances. Now she's keeping a secret from her wealthy employer, who is planning an extravagant wedding for her socialite daughter. Barely out of her teens, this is Donita's first time in Singapore, and she's had the bad luck to be hired by the notoriously fussy Mrs. Fann. Brazen and exuberant, Donita's thrown herself into a love affair with an Indian construction worker and started a lively social media account that says more than it should. Working as an in-home caregiver for an elderly employer, Angel is feeling blue after a recent breakup with the woman she loves. She's alarmed when her employer's son suddenly brings in a new Filipina nurse who may be a valuable ally, or who may be meant to replace her. Then an explosive news story shatters Singapore's famous tranquility--and sends a chill down the spine of every domestic worker: Flordeliza Martinez, a Filipina maid, has been arrested for murdering her female employer. The three women don't know the accused well, but she could be any of them; every worker knows stories of women who were scapegoated or even executed for crimes they didn't commit. Shocked into action, Donita, Corazon, and Angel will use their considerable moxie and insight to piece together the mystery of what really happened on the day Flordeliza's employer was murdered. After all, no one knows the secrets of Singapore's elite like the women who work in their homes.
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c2012., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: MYS Fic Ren Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A captivating and expertly plotted tale of residents and servants on one block of a posh London street - and the deadly ways their lives intertwine. Life for the residents and servants of Hexam Place appears placid and orderly on the outside: drivers take their employers to and from work, dogs are walked, flowers are planted in gardens, and Christmas candles lit uniformly in windows. But beneath this tranquil veneer, the upstairs-downstairs relationships are set to combust. Henry, the handsome valet to Lord Studley, is sleeping with both the Lord's wife and his university-age daughter. Montserrat, the Still family's lazy au pair, assists Mrs. Still in keeping secret her illicit affair with a television actor - in exchange for pocket cash. June, the haughty housekeeper to a princess of dubious origin, tries to enlist her fellow house-helpers into a 'society' to address complaints about their employers. Meanwhile, Dex, the disturbed gardener to several families on the block, thinks a voice on his cell phone is giving him godlike instructions - commands that could imperil the lives of all those in Hexam Place.
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c2010., Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Pal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of veteran actress Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton, discovers that bounder Webster Carlton Westward III has written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie's death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman-penned musical extravaganza. As the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans--and for posterity.
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2005, p1971., General, A & E Home Video ; Distributed by New Video Call No: DVD Fic Upstairs S1.1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Upstairs, downstairs (1971) Volume: 1-1Summary Note: 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. The first season commences with rare black and white episodes that were not broadcast in the United States for over a decade. On these discs, the Bellamys take on a new under-parlormaid, Lady Marjorie sits for a portrait, with the Bellamys away, the servants throw a party, and Elizabeth causes a scandal at a ball. Also, Elizabeth's search for a husband runs into trouble, Richard jeopardizes his political career, James's friend escorts Lady Marjorie to the opera, and Emily, the put-upon kitchen maid, falls for a footman.
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[2005, p1971]., General, A & E Home Video ; Distributed by New Video Call No: DVD Fic Upstairs S1.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Upstairs, downstairs (1971) Volume: 1-2Summary Note: 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. On this disc, in a fit of grief, Mrs. Bridges steals a baby, the return of a troubled maid causes problems, a guest arrives and valuables disappear, and the poet Lawrence Kirbridge captures Elizabeth's heart. Also, Elizabeth's new love pits her against the family.
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[2005, p1972]., General, A & E Home Video ; Distributed by New Video Call No: DVD Fic Upstairs S2.1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Upstairs, downstairs (1971) Volume: 2-1Summary Note: 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. On this disc, Elizabeth's marriage suffers a rough start, James's tryst with Sarah sends ripples through the house, Elizabeth's husband tries to save their marriage, and Elizabeth's pregnancy sparks a family crisis. Also, the King upstairs, an emergency downstairs, Lady Marjorie's letters fall into the wrong hands, and Hudson tries to impress his brother.
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[2005, p1972]., General, A & E Home Video ; Distributed by New Video Call No: DVD Fic Upstairs S2.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Upstairs, downstairs (1971) Volume: 2-2Summary Note: 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. On this disc, Elizabeth's new baby causes an uproar downstairs, Lady Marjorie's widowed mother comes to stay, and Rose discovers Elizabeth's secret. Also, The Bellamys endure a financial setback, Thomas finds advantage in Sarah's pregnancy, and James returns with a fiancée.
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[2005, p1973]., General, A & E Home Video ; Distributed by New Video Call No: DVD Fic Upstairs S3.1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Upstairs, downstairs (1971) Volume: 3-1Summary Note: 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. On this disc, a new servant arrives and Lady Marjorie departs, Richard's secretary Hazel is stranded between upstairs and down, Hudson is offered an attractive new position, and Hazel rejects James's proposal of marriage. Also, a small kindness leads to a crisis downstairs, a French countess stirs Richard's heart, and a successful investment leads to political scandal.
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[2005, p1973]., General, A & E Home Video ; Distributed by New Video Call No: DVD Fic Upstairs S3.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Upstairs, downstairs (1971) Volume: 3-2Summary Note: 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. On this disc, James and Hazel suffer their first crisis, a charitable Christmas mission stumbles, and Edward, a young servant, speaks too freely. Also, Rose falls in love with an Australian farmer, Hazel loses her baby, and Hazel treats the servants to a seaside holiday.
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[2005, p1974]., General, A & E Home Video ; Distributed by New Video Call No: DVD Fic Upstairs S4.1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Upstairs, downstairs (1971) Volume: 4-1Summary Note: 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. On this disc, James heads for the Western Front, home on leave, he reveals details of the war, Hudson is badly shaken by the sinking of the Lusitania, and life downstairs is disrupted as servants take wartime jobs. Also Hazel helps James return to his regiment, Rose accepts a proposal of marriage, and Hazel spends time with a young pilot.