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Originally published in 1827, Roberts' Guide for Butlers and Other Household Staff was a handbook for servants to perform their duties more efficiently and thoughtfully. Roberts gives a plethora of information about household duties of a butler like:
• How to dress suitably for work
• Regulations for the dinner table
• Directions for cleaning tea trays
• Giving Britannia metal a brilliant polish
• Preserving fruits for the year
• Addressing...
2) Backstabber
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The No.1 Sunday Times bestsellerIf you don't face your enemies - they'll stab you in the back. One of them has a gun to his head. Who will pull the trigger? When king of the underworld Vinny Butler goes into business with respected villain Eddie Mitchell, it's a match made in East End legend. Friends and family are treated like gold, enemies like rats - it's the life. Then mysterious packages arrive, dead creatures and threats. Someone is out for...
3) The Wronged
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With family like this, who needs enemies...
There are some families that welcome newcomers with open arms, then there are the Butlers. An East End family no good girl wants to marry into...
Jo fell for Vinny Butler's good looks, but she's stood at one graveside too many and now she's buried her heart as well.
Michael Butler was always the nice one, until he started running the family business. Nancy is desperate to leave, and though she would never...
4) Tainted Love
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Three Butlers. Two weddings. One funeral.
The explosive new novel from the Sunday Times #1 bestselling author Kimberley Chambers.
Nobody can hurt you like the ones you love...
Blood is thicker than water, love is stronger than hate - and that's the problem. When your brother has betrayed you, there's no coming back.
Vinny and Michael have always protected each other and provided for the family. Together they were formidable but business always...
5) The Trap
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The heir to Martina Cole's crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery.
The Butlers are the kings of the East End.
Vinny and Roy Butler are the apple of their mum's eye and although Queenie knows they can play dirty, when it comes to family they look after business and make her proud. Nothing and no one can bring the Butler's down.
But Vinny seems to have crossed the wrong person and his cards are marked. And with the brothers...
6) Payback
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Family. They're supposed to watch your back. Not stab you in it
When the enemy is one of your own, the payback is twice as hard.
The Butler brothers are the Kings of the East End, and their motto is 'what goes around, comes around'.
In their world, family counts; so when the truth about Vinny's cousin's death comes to light, it rocks the Butlers to the core. One by one, Vinny's friends and family are turning against him...
Then, the unimaginable...
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BOOM! Box
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[2018]
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IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Eisner Award-nominated writer Lilah Sturges (Fables, Thor: Season One) teams with artist polterink (Enough Space for Everyone Else) for the first Lumberjanes graphic novel in a story about finding your way and navigating life, love, and a literal forest. When the 'Janes start to become separated during an orienteering outing thanks to a mysterious compass, Molly becomes more and more insecure about the effect of her relationship with Mal on the other...
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The History Press
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[2017]
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English
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Hampton Court, 1522. Two young men, both heirs to an earldom, both rivals. Their hatred comes to a climax when Queen Katherine of Aragon brings her ladies-in-waiting to Cardinal Wolsey's luxurious palace. One of the ladies, Anne Boleyn, is to marry James Butler, son of the Earl of Ormond in Ireland, but appears more attracted to Harry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland. And when a member of the cardinal's staff is found shot dead with an arrow,...
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"What ho! A new Jeeves and Wooster novel, penned in homage to P.G. Wodehouse by bestselling author Ben Schott-in which literature's favorite gentleman and his gentleman's personal gentleman become spies in service to the Crown. The misadventures of P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and his incomparable valet, Jeeves, have delighted audiences for nearly a century. Now, bestselling author Ben Schott brings this odd couple back to life in a madcap new...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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[2016]
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When a paleontologist is murdered, Mr. and Mrs. North go digging for his killer The office of Dr. Orpheus Preson is filled with remains, the bones of long dead dinosaurs. He waves one of them at the NYPD detective, demanding the police stop the person who's been sending workmen to his house--an endless parade of bricklayers, butlers, French tutors, and tree surgeons, none of whom Preson hired, and all of whom expect payment. There's nothing law enforcement...
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