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Author
Series
The women of Lancaster County volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amish-raised Ada Rupp falls in love with Amish widower Will Gundy and agrees to act as his daughter's nanny on a trip to Europe, but when Mennonite scholar Daniel Hart asks for her help, she is torn between the two men.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every June, the quiet beach town of Ogunquit is overtaken by wealthy families who hire local young women like Amy Latimer and Hayley Franklin to care for their children. Best friends since childhood, Amy and Hayley are eager to secure lucrative summer jobs. Amy wants to finance her upcoming move to Boston. Hayley hopes to squirrel away enough money so that her mom can finally leave her abusive husband.... But the passing weeks bring complications...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Entreated by her ex-husband to help with two orphans recently placed in his custody, a closure-seeking Andie discovers the task to be much harder than anticipated in light of the orphans' delinquent antics, a haunting, and Andie's rekindled feelings.
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lord Fredrick Ashton may not feel ready to be a father, but with a little Ashton on the way, he's sure about one thing, the wolfish curse on his family must end before the child is born.
Author
Series
Rogues and remarkable women volume 01
Language
English
Formats
Description
When West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune and her freedom. Then The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. A wounded military hero, Busick is determined to resolve his dead cousin's dangerous financial dealings for Lionel's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
385 pages : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Miss Penelope Lumley assuages the disappointments of her sixteenth birthday by accepting an invitation to speak at her former school, the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, which will be closed if she cannot prove the academic progress of her incorrigible charges.
Author
Series
Publisher
Listen & Live Audio
Pub. Date
p2015
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jacky Faber is framed for passing confidential U.S. information to the British. Forced to flee Boston, she goes undercover as a governess for a prominent Puritan family. When outed by a nosy postmaster, she deserts the respectability of her position, dons a leotard and slippers, and poses as a Russian tightrope walker in a traveling circus. But the law soon catches up with her, and prospects do not look good. Through her many adventures, Jacky has...
Author
Series
Canadian crossings volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of World War I, Grace hopes to reclaim her nephew, Christian, from the relatives who rejected her sister because of her social class. Under an alias, she goes to Toronto and becomes her orphaned nephew's nanny. Observing the family up close, she begins to fall for Andrew Easton, the boy's guardian. Andrew is promised to a spoiled socialite who is sure to make a terrible stepmother. Can Grace protect her nephew... and her heart?
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 49 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nanny McPhee arrives to help a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman's children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons.
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
365 pages (large print) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Someone wants her dead... But is it tied to another murder? When Amish nanny Liddie Miller is attacked more than once while caring for Jonah Troyer's children, the attempts stir up too many memories of his wife's murder for comfort. Though the police insist the murderer died in prison, Jonah's convinced there's a connection. And he won't let another woman die on his watch. He just has to figure out the culprit's motives ... before it's too late?"--Back...
11) Nanny McPhee
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 1 hr., 39 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The incorrigible Brown children, who devour nannies, nurse-maids, and governesses, finally meet their match in Nanny McPhee, a mysterious woman with special powers who enters the household of the recently widowed Mr. Brown and has a remarkable effect on the entire family.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international headlines. Already celebrated for his flight across the Atlantic, his father, Charles, Sr., is the country's golden boy, with his wealthy, lovely wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, by his side. But there's someone else in their household-Betty Gow, a formerly obscure young woman, now known around the world...
13) Hidden pictures
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Language
English
Description
""Whip-smart, creepy as hell, and masterfully plotted, Hidden Pictures is the best new thriller novel I've read in years. Destined to be a classic of the genre." -Ransom Riggs, bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted mystery about a woman working as...
14) The ebb tide
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a well-to-do family asks Sallie Riehl to be their daughter's nanny for the summer at their Cape May, New Jersey, vacation home, she jumps at the chance to broaden her horizons beyond the Lancaster County Amish community where she grew up. Curious by nature, Sallie loves reading and learning, and she fears that her chances of making a good match with an Amish farmer will be hampered because of it. Though she loves taking care of nine-year-old...
Author
Series
Scottish bookshop volume 2
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four year old son Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where shouting football fans keep them awake all night. Hari's dad, Jaz, a charismatic but perpetually broke DJ, is no help at all. But his sister Surinder comes to Zoe's aid, hooking her up with a job as far away from the urban crush as possible: a bookshop on...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Baxter sisters come from a long line of women with disastrous luck in love. But this summer, Sunshine and Margot will turn disasters into destiny... As an etiquette coach, Margot teaches her clients to fit in. But she's never faced a client like Bianca, an aging movie star who gained fame -- and notoriety -- through a campaign of shock and awe. Schooling Bianca on the fine art of behaving like a proper diplomat's wife requires intensive lessons,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...