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The Smythe-Smith quartet volume 2
Language
English
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Anne Wynter, a governess with some dark secrets in her past, is tempted by the dangerously handsome Daniel Smith-Smythe, Earl of Winstead, who relentlessly pursues her despite her social station.
2) Agnes Grey
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English
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Written when women-and workers generally-had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess's life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under...
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English
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Believing herself guilty of a crime, Olivia Keene flees her home, eventually stumbling upon a grand estate where an elaborate celebration is in progress. But all is not as joyous as it seems. Lord Bradley has just learned a terrible secret, which, if exposed, will change his life forever. When he glimpses a figure on the grounds, he fears a spy or thief has overheard his devastating news. He is stunned to discover the intruder is a scrap of a woman...
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English
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"Governess Juliana Ashbourne has dreams reaching far beyond the confines of her current position, hoping to someday establish her own school for girls. When she inherits a fortune from her late grandfather, she is shocked to learn that "someday" may soon be within reach. However, there is one condition: she must spend a month at the estate of Havenfield--with the very family who disowned her mother. Intent on securing the money she needs to start...
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Pink Carnation novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
Veteran governess Laura Grey joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and thrilling adventures in service to the spy known as the Pink Carnation. She hardly expects her first assignment to be serving as governess for the children of André Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police.
At first the job is as lively as Latin, but Laura begins to notice Jaouen's increasingly strange behavior. As Laura edges
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Backwoods brides volume 3
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English
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Addie McRae accepts a job as governess to young Cedric Whitfield, but she has no idea what lies ahead--especially when a string of attempted robberies and a kidnapping threaten the peace of the Whitfield household in Marshall, Texas.
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind. When Gideon Westcott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America's wool industry, he never expected to become a father...
9) Jane Eyre
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Language
English
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
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Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
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Beautiful and refined Emily Harris, hoping to make a mark on the world before settling down with a husband and family, accepts a job teaching two young girls on an isolated Idaho ranch, and determines to prove her worth in spite of the misgivings of rancher Gavin Blake who doubts Emily will be able to tolerate life in the rugged high country.
14) The turning
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Newly appointed nanny Kate is charged with the care of two disturbed orphans, Flora and Miles. Quickly though, she discovers that both the children and the house are harboring dark secrets and things may not be as they appear.
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Series
Ladies of Summerhill volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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The chance to break the big story is all Charlotte needs to secure her future. But when the truth comes outùit may cost her the love of her life.
Newport, Rhode Island, in 1900ùa glamorous resort town where the rich and famous go to see and be seen.
Charlotte Hale isn't part of that world. She's a working girl, a secretary for a local newspaper, who dreams of becoming a real reporter. When her boss offers
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
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.
17) The king and I
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of the musical, with additions such as an evil sorceror plotting to steal the throne and playful new characters "kids will love"
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.
20) Born wicked
Author
Series
Cahill witch chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.
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