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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Adult Halloween
Adult Mystery/Thriller Reads
If You Like The Silent Patient, Read These! - Adult/YA
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Adult Mystery/Thriller Reads
If You Like The Silent Patient, Read These! - Adult/YA
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...
Author
Series
Mitford murders (Jessica Fellowes) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's 1920, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London. Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursemaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy, an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories. But then a nurse-Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake-is killed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Stanley Darrow isn't sure what to expect when the mysterious Mr. Gedrick appears on his doorstep. He is certain, however, that his family could use Mr. Gedrick's help: Their lives-and their house-have been a mess since Stanley's dad died. The strange new nanny quickly helps them transform their cluttered home into a sparkling and spotless version of its former self, but it's going to take more than a clean house to help the Darrow family learn to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She's also twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly single dad, offers her a job as his live-in nanny, she jumps at the opportunity to get paid while living in a super fancy neighborhood and being around Lissa, his cool but introverted tween. Her tween charge isn't the only one who could use some help fitting in, though. According to ... well,...
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Green, a stingy widower with three children he cannot be bothered with, decides to find a nanny for his children, he winds up hiring a glamorous ex-circus pig who knows nothing about children but a lot about chocolate.
Author
Series
Women of Lancaster County volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Mindy Starns Clark and coauthor Leslie Gould offer readers The Amish Nanny, Book 2 in the Women of Lancaster County series, which tells the stories of young Plain women as they explore their roots, connect with family, and discover true love. Amish-raised Ada Rupp knows it's time to make a commitment to the faith and join the church, especially if she wants a future with the handsome Amish widower Will Gundy. But when she has the...
9) The hunter
Author
Series
Boston belles volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hunter :I didn't mean to star in a sex tape, okay? It was just one of those unexplainable things. Like Stonehenge, Police Academy 2, and morning glory clouds. It just happened. Now my ball-busting father is sentencing me to six months of celibacy, sobriety, and morbid boredom under the roof of Boston's nerdiest girl alive, Sailor Brennan. The virginal archer is supposed to babysit my ass while I learn to take my place in Royal Pipelines, my family's...
10) The highlander
Author
Series
Victorian rebels volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In The Highlander, a stunning, gorgeous Victorian romance from Kerrigan Byrne, can the fiercest master of battle conquer a woman's heart? They call him the Demon Highlander. The fearsome Lieutenant Colonel Liam MacKenzie is known for his superhuman strength, towering presence, and fiery passion in the heat of battle. As Laird to the MacKenzie clan, the undefeated Marquess has vanquished his foes with all rage and wrath of his barbaric Highland ancestors....
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Series
Emma Dilemma volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Emma tries to help her parents understand that, although their beloved new nanny has made a few mistakes, no one can behave perfectly responsibly all the time.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When her privileged employers become the focus of a financial scandal at the height of the economic crash, a trusted nanny finds her loyalties tested by a reporter who taps her as an insider with unique perspectives into what various family members have hidden from each other.
Author
Series
Emmy and the rat series volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Emmy wants to be an ordinary girl, but the evil nanny Miss Barmy, now a rat, has trapped five of her former charges and when she uses them to steal jewels belonging to Emmy's parents, it is up to Emmy, Joe, and their rodent friends to stop her.
14) Mr. Elephanter
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
From early morning until sunset, beloved Mr. Elephanter takes care of the rambunctious youngsters of the Elephantery, preparing their breakfast, taking them to the park, tucking them in for naps, and joining them at play.
15) Butler for hire!
Author
Series
DJ Funkyfoot volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
DJ Funkyfoot may have a name fit for a hip-hop star, but as a dog butler desperate to find a job, he takes a job as a nanny watching over a ShrubBaby that loves chaos.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Emily Proudman's life is in chaos. She's just lost her acting agent and her job in one miserable day. Scott Denny has a problem. Even though he's a successful CEO, neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can come close to fixing it. He's at a breaking point. Until he meets Emily. Emily is friendly and agreeable. Emily is desperate. Emily is perfect. Scott offers Emily what seems the perfect summer job as a housekeeper and nanny on his remote...
18) Mary Poppins
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the East Wind blows Mary Poppins over Cherry Tree Lane and into the lives of the Banks children, nothing is ever the same! This picture book adaptation of the original novel is full of Mary's unique brand of whimsical adventure: There's a tea party on the ceiling, a visit to the night zoo, and a trip to a mysterious shop that sells stars. Told in a lyrical text with fresh yet timeless art by Genevieve Godbout, this version of Mary Poppins is...
19) The McNifficents
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lord Tennyson, a senior miniature Schnauzer employed as a distinguished nanny to a chaotic family of six children, has one summer to get his charges to learn to behave.
Author
Series
Crown Colony novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem very far away. When the Irish nanny looking after Acting Governor Palin's daughter dies suddenly - and in mysterious circumstances - mission school-educated local girl SuLin - an aspiring journalist trying to escape an arranged marriage - is invited to take her place. But then another murder at the residence occurs and it seems very likely that...
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