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The Magus

by John Fowles

Published: 2001-01-04

Paperback: 656 pages

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The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with a local millionaire evolves into a deadly game, one in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas must fight f...

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The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South

by Katherine Van Wormer, David W. Jackson III, Charletta Sudduth

Published: 2012-09-17

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The Maid Narratives shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they served, uncovering the often intimate relationships between maid and mistress. Based on interviews with over fifty people--both white and black--these stories deliver a personal and powerful messa...

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Maid of Fairbourne Hall, The

by Julie Klassen

Published: 2012-01-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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Pampered Margaret Macy flees London in disguise to escape pressure to marry a dishonorable man. With no money and nowhere else to go, she takes a position as a housemaid in the home of Nathaniel Upchurch, a suitor she once rejected in hopes of winning his dashing brother. Praying no one wi...

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Maid of Honor

by Jillian Conley

Published: 2011-01-20

Paperback: 164 pages

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Unemployed and single Josephine Vitale felt like her life couldn't get any worse, or so she thought. On Valentine's night her best friend Sandra called announcing her engagement. Since Sandra had been planning her perfect wedding since she was twelve, Josephine knew she was in for one hell of a ride,...

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Maid to Match

by Deeanne Gist

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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The new maid at the Biltmore Estate jeopardizes her own efforts to become the lady's maid with her interest in the handsome--and forbidden--footman.

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The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc

by Kimberly Cutter

Published: 2011-10-18

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The girl who led an army, the peasant who crowned a king, the maid who became a legend It is the fifteenth century, and the tumultuous Hundred Years? War rages on. France is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside destroying all who cross their path, and Charles VII, t...

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Maiden Voyage

by Tania Aebi, Bernadette Brennan

Published: 1996-09-29

Paperback: 304 pages

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Tania Aebe was an eighteen-year-old dropout and barfly. She was going nowhere until her father offered her a challenge. He would offer her either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop in which she had to sail around the world alone. She chose the boat and for two years it was her ...

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Maids of Misfortune: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery

by M. Louisa Locke

Published: 2009-12-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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It's the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie's husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the boardinghouse she owns to pay off a debt.   Annie Fuller also...

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The Maid's Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream

by Mary Romero

Published: 2011-09-01

Hardcover: 277 pages

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At a very young age, Olivia left her family and traditions in Mexico to live with her mother, Carmen, in one of Los Angeles's most exclusive and nearly all-white gated communities.  Based on over twenty years of research, noted scholar Mary Romero brings Olivia's remarkable story to life....

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The Mailbox

by Audrey Shafer

Published: 2008-08-12

Paperback: 192 pages

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Vernon Culligan had been dead to the town of Draydon, Virginia, so long that when the crusty Vietnam vet finally died, only one person noticed. Twelve-year-old Gabe grew up in the foster care system until a social worker located his Uncle Vernon two years before. When he comes home to disc...