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The Lilliput Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
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"A hundred years ago sevants underpinned middle- and upper-class life in Ireland, and domestic service was the major source of employment for women before social conditions changed utterly after the First World War and labour-saving appliances took their place. Two generations on, the domestic servant is an almost extinct species. This book examines an area of life which has never been adequately reflected in Irish literature, labour or social history....
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Instead of a proper second honeymoon, the newly remarried Harry and Fair Haristeen leave cozy Crozet, Virginia, for Shelbyville, Kentucky, site of the famous saddlebred horse show. There they'll visit dear friends Joan Hamilton and Larry Hodge and enjoy a week among some of the finest horses, trainers, and riders in the country. But soon after they arrive, events veer mysteriously-and murderously-off course. First, Joan's ruby and sapphire horsehead...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance of a Sri Lankan nanny and how the most vulnerable people find their voices. "It began with a crunch of leaves and earth. So early, so cold, the branches shone with ice. I'd returned to collect the songbirds. They are worth more than their weight in gold." Yiannis is a poacher, trapping the tiny protected songbirds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate...
85) Never look back
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Series
(Mary T.)Criminal profiler volume 3
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After multiple women go missing, Agent Melina Shepard of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation makes the impulsive decision to go undercover as a prostitute. While working the street, she narrowly avoids becoming a serial killer's latest victim; as much as it pains her to admit, she needs backup. Enter lone wolf FBI agent Jerrod Ramsey. Stonewalled by a lack of leads, he and Melina investigate a scene where a little girl has been found abandoned...
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
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...
Author
Publisher
Jumpingdude Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Knock Em DeadÑHiring The Best, Proven Tactics For Employee Selection & How To Build winning Teams. Management requires getting work done successfully through others and if you cannot first hire the right people, you can never manage productively. Hiring The Best has been in print for 25 years and continues evolve as the leading resource for to employee selection and productivity oriented team building.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Some of the biggest opportunities for energy improvements occur in the building trades. This program presents an overview of job opportunities in this booming industry where there is a high demand for trained professionals, designers, and workers to help improve the efficiency of commercial and residential buildings through better design of new buildings and smart improvements to existing structures. Making our homes and offices more energy efficient...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Traces how Brett Kavanaugh deftly maneuvered to become the nominee; how he quashed resistance from Republicans who worried he was too squishy on conservative issues and from a president reluctant to reward a George W. Bush loyalist. It shows a Republican party that had concluded Kavanaugh was too big to fail, with senators and the FBI ignoring potentially devastating evidence against him. And it paints a picture of Democratic leaders unwilling to...
90) My beloved world
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English
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"An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. She writes of her precarious childhood and the refuge she...
91) Titus Groan
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English
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As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. Meanwhile, far away and in the kitchen, a servant named Steerpike escapes his drudgework and begins an auspicious ascent to power.
Inside of Gormenghast, all events are predetermined by complex rituals, the origins of which are lost in time. The castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit...
92) The maids
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Two maids, in a sinister bond of roleplaying, take turns acting out an abusive employer-servant relationship. Adapted from Jean Genet's absurdist play, itself inspired from a true life case.
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In a small logging town in northern California, young Emma Rose Finnis was born and died. Now, no one remembers her hardworking life and her grand dreams--but she remembers. She remembers everything. Emma Rose is still here, one hundred years after her death and she doesn't plan on leaving. But when a determined hunter arrives with instructions to "clean" Emma Rose out of her haunt, the stately Lambry mansion, death suddenly isn't the worst fate...
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A PRICELESS FIND John Callister and his brother had built a ranching empire in Montana.They'd made their fortune -- and they'd made Callister a household name. But now John wants something he can call his own. So he starts over -- without the Callister name -- vowing to polish a run-down spread in the small, sleepy town of Hollister into a jewel. But the jewel he uncovers isn't a ranch. Sassy Peale is pretty and shy with far too much responsibility...
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Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Toucan Whisper, Toucan Sing is a novel about modern Mexico, the conflicting goals of development versus ecological preservation, and the aspirations and struggles of the indigenous people who service tourists at a beachfront hotel. Central to this tale are two brothers: the ambitious twenty-two-year old Antonio, also known as "The Maestro," with his rippling abdomen and bursting biceps, is the favorite of many of the women at the hotel Oaxtepec where...
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English
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Provides an overview of the whistleblowing process, explaining how whistleblowers can find the support they need as they save lives, prevent fraud, and protect the environment and offering step-by-step guidance to help them find information, support their claims, determine whom to blow the whistle to, deal with attacks, enlist allies, and understand the law.
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Tess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run ranch in Australia's outback, to reunite with her estranged father Jack and half-sister Claire. Although Tess and Claire have their differences, after an unexpected tragedy, they must work together to save the ranch from bankruptcy. The original movie that inspired the smash hit television series.
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