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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 2.2022., General, Universal Call No: DVD Fic Downton New Era Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Dowager Countess reveals she has a villa in the south of France, and many of the family follow her there for a rest while some of the family stay behind to keep an eye on the cast and crew of a film which is shooting at the grand estate.
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By Bonneville, Hugh Findlay, Jessica Brown, 1989- Carmichael, Laura Carter, Jim, 1948- Coyle, Brendan Dockery, Michelle, 1981- Finneran, Siobhan, 1967- Frogatt, Joanne, 1979- James-Collier, Rob Leech, Allen Logan, Phyllis MacLaine, Shirley, 1934- McGovern, Elizabeth, 1961- McShera, Sophie Nicol, Lesley, 1953- Nuttall, Amy, 1982- Smith, Maggie, 1934- Stevens, Dan, 1982c2013., PBS Distribution PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Fic Downton season 3 Edition: Original UK ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Downton Abbey Volume: 3Summary Note: The war is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. In the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to maintain Downton more firmly than ever.
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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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-- Hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive.2019., Adult, Hachette Books Call No: Bio L253m Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams -- breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest, attending a university, and becoming a writer -- were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, working days and taking college classes online. She also began to write relentlessly. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told: the stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. Of living on food stamps and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) coupons to eat. Of the government programs that provided her housing, but that doubled as halfway houses. The aloof government employees who called her lucky for receiving assistance while she didn't feel lucky at all. She wrote to remember the fight, to eventually cut through the deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor. Her memoir explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. "I'd become a nameless ghost," Stephanie writes about her relationship with her clients, many of whom do not know her from any other cleaner, but who she learns plenty about. As she begins to discover more about her clients' lives -- their sadness and love, too -- she begins to find hope in her own path.
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c2013., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Bio D261g Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Explores the 1915 murder of Charles "Bert" Massey, a member of one of Canada's wealthiest families and the trial of Carrie Davies, an eighteen-year-old penniless domestic servant who quickly confessed to the crime.
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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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By McKay, Chris Ridley, Ryan Kirkman, Robert Nisenboim, Samantha Furst, Bryan Furst, Sean Alpert, David Hoult, Nicholas, 1989- Awkwafina, 1988- Schwartz, Ben, 1981- Aghdashloo, Shohreh, 1952- Jones, Brandon Scott, 1984- Martinez, Adrian Cage, Nicolas, 1965- Universal Pictures (Firm) Skybound LLC Giant Wildcat Productions2023., Adult, Universal Call No: NEW DVD Fic Renfield Edition: Dracula sucks edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Renfield, the tortured aide to history's most narcissistic boss, Dracula. Renfield is forced to procure his master's prey and do his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there's a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness. If only he can figure out how to end his codependency.
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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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[2010]., Music Box Films Call No: DVD Fic Seraphine Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The true story of Séraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit.
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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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-- Upstairs, downstairs.By Thomas, Heidi, 1967- Lyn, Euros Metzstein, Saul, 1970- Atkins, Eileen, 1934- Marsh, Jean Hawes, Keeley, 1977- Stoppard, Ed Foy, Claire, 1984- Reid, Anne Malik, Art Jackson, Neil Scarborough, Adrian Bradbury, Helen Kendrick, Ellie, 1990- Mirallegro, Nico British Broadcasting Corporation Warner Home Video (Firm)c2011., British Broadcasting Corporation : Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video Ltd. Call No: DVD Fic Upstairs (2010-) 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Upstairs, downstairs (2010) Volume: 1Summary Note: One of the most loved television series of all time is brought back to life with a fresh cast and sumptuous production values. It's 1936, and six years since parlor maid Rose left 165 Eaton Place, when fate brings her back as housekeeper to its new owners: Sir Hallam, his wife Lady Agnes, and Maud, Lady Holland, his mother. Rose soon finds she has her work cut out as she recruits a new 'downstairs' family to help run the elegance and finery of the 'upstairs' world.