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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In Asia, in the Middle East, and even in Europe, in the privacy of families that can act with impunity, over fifteen million housekeepers are victims of slavery: exploited at will, abused, and sometimes raped, these invisible women are the sacrificed workers of the global economy. States, institutions, middlemen... no one is interested in change, despite a smoldering spirit of revolt.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"WANTED: Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply. A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar's beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel-a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for herself and her granddaughter in modern India. "It isn't the words we speak that make us who we are. Or even the deeds we do. It is the secrets buried in our hearts."...
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Series
Ivy Pocket volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Are you ready for Ivy Pocket? The wickedly funny, completely unreliable maid of no importance returns-this time as a coffin maker's daughter-in this action-packed sequel to 'Anyone but Ivy Pocket.' 'School Library Journal' says, 'Fans of . . . Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events will love Ivy Pocket's zany adventures.' Everyone seems to want a piece of Ivy Pocket. Her adoptive parents keep trying to get her to clean the funeral home, even...
Author
Series
Ivy Pocket volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ivy Pocket must escape her adversaries, such as Miss Always and the Butterfield family, and rescue people in need of saving.
Author
Series
House of furies volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Anno: After the frightful events of last autumn, seventeen-year-old Louisa Ditton has settled into her role as a maid at Coldthistle House, but she has not settled into what that means for her humanity. As Louisa struggles to figure out whether she is worthy of redemption, the devilish Mr. Morningside plans a fete- one that will bring new guests to Coldthistle House. From wicked humans to Upworlders, angelic beings who look down upon Mr....
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help! From Reese's Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes an absolute tour de force--the wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own"--
11) An ordinary man
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An infamous war criminal and former general spending his life on the run from international authorities is suddenly moved to a new hideout, where he develops a relationship with the maid that looks after him. But when he discovers that she is actually an agent hired to protect him, he makes a decision that will drastically change both of their lives.
13) The Help
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Lady and lady's maid mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In post-World War I England, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, step outside of their social roles and put their lives at risk to apprehend a vicious killer. December 1918: As a difficult year draws to a close, there is much to celebrate for nineteen-year-old Phoebe Renshaw and her three siblings at their beloved family estate of Foxwood Hall. The dreadful war is finally over; eldest daughter Julia's engagement to their houseguest,...
15) Spanglish
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Flor and her daughter, Christina come to the United States, Flor gets a job as a maid at the home of a successful chef John Clasky, his insecure wife Deborah, their two children, and Deborah's mother. Despite Flor's lack of an English, she does the best she can to assist the Clasky family in more than just house cleaning matters. However, when Flor is forced to live with the family over the summer, she has no choice but to bring Christina along....
16) Still me
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Series
Me before you volume 3
Language
English
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Description
From the sensational #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, a new book featuring her iconic heroine of Me Before You and After You , Louisa Clark. Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the superrich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes,...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
¡Después de que su jefe esnob Marcela los prohíbe de asistir una boda en la ciudad, las amas de casa Martina y Lupita deciden "tomar prestado" la ropa de Marcela e ir de todos modos! Con Marcela y su amigo Marifer en la búsqueda caliente, las dos criadas comienzan un viaje llenado por risa en nombre del amor; uno que siempre cambia las vidas de las cuatro mujeres.
After their snobby boss Marcela forbids them from attending a wedding in town,...
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
Français
Description
Maupassant's story is of a young servant girl seduced, made pregnant, and abandoned by her master, who dies because she cannot live without him. This dramatized version focuses on the relationships between people and the landscapes amid which they live, a story reflective both of Maupassant's view of life and of the style in which he described it.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Durante más de trescientos años, la casa de la playa ha guardado sus secretos. Para Eli Landon será su salvación. Tras once meses de pesadilla, Eli Landon queda absuelto del asesinato de su esposa por falta de pruebas. Ahora es un hombre libre, pero las brutales y misteriosas circunstancias del crimen hacen que la sombra de la sospecha siga cerniendo sobre él. Con la reputación destrozada, nada queda ya del abogado de éxito que fue. Incapaz...
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