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Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A town's lone African American woman is surrounded by social isolation and deep-seated racism while working as a housekeeper. Set in rural Iowa in the early 1900s, Cora is confronted with death, abortion and loneliness. Working as a domestic, she lives only for her daughter and the neglected child of her employers.
Author
Series
Tucker Mills trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tucker Mills, Massachusetts, 1839. bound as an indentured servant to the Tucker Mills bank and its controlling manager, Reese Thackery finds comfort in her faith and her friends. She vows to serve her remaining two years with a willing heart. But that's before bank owner Conner Kingsley rides into town to audit the bank. Reese starts her work at the Kingsley manor but is haunted by memories of her past. When the bank manager becomes vengeful, Conner...
Author
Language
English
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The steady tick of an aged Regulator wall clock and the squeak of an overhead fan turning slowly are soft but insistent, counting down the night, while the high desert thrums like a half-remembered Victrola song. The sounds are below the consciousness of Winchell Dear, an old-time gambler, a Texas poker player on the southern circuit, as he waits for something . . . something vague that his life of chance tells him is evil and moving his way. He has...
7) Spanglish
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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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,...
10) Re Jane
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Jane Re--a half-Korean, half-American orphan--takes a position as an au pair for two Brooklyn academics and their daughter, but a brief sojourn in Seoul, where she reconnects with family, causes her to wonder if the man she loves is really the man for her as she tries to find balance between two cultures.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
Author
Series
Tucker Mills trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A tender story of the power of faith over Fear and the tie that truly binds.
14) Paula Spencer
Author
Series
Paula Spencer novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The novel begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Having outlived an abusive husband and father, Paula and her four children are now struggling to live their adult lives, with two of the kids balancing their own addictions. Paula rebuilds her life slowly. As she goes about her daily routine working as a cleaning woman, and cooking for her two children at home, she re-establishes connections...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006, 2005
Language
English
Description
She keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon... and keeps him on his toes. Everyone's awed by his Scotland Yard successes-but they don't know about his secret weapon. No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed, Mrs. Jeffries's polished detection skills are up to the task... proving that behind every great man there's a woman-and that a crime solver's work is never done.
Sir George Braxton was found lying face down in a frozen fountain with...
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Language
English
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Bhima, a domestic servant in the household of Sera Dubash, an upper-class Parsi housewife, develops a bond with her employer over the course of many years as they both suffer through abusive marriages, loss, and disappointments, but their friendship still cannot overcome the restrictions of class and money.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is the story of 16-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius, even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil. An Independent Bestseller Winner of the 2000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award! Tracy Chevalier...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
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