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Based on Saturday Evening Post cartoons, this popular TV series centers around Hazel, a take-charge maid who works for the Baxter family. George Baxter is the head of the family which consists of his wife, Dorothy and their son, Harold. Though she is the maid for the Baxter family, its very clear that Hazel runs the household and often preempts George's authority in very amusing ways.

"Set in Singapore during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Ilo Ilo chronicles the day-to-day of the Lim family--troublesome grade-schooler Jiale and his overstressed parents, Teck and Hwee Leng. Comfortably middle class and with another baby on the way, they hire Teresa, a Filipino immigrant, as a live-in maid and nanny. An outsider in the family and Singapore itself, Teresa initially struggles to manage Jiale's antics and find her footing in her new...

"Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it have been...

"From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a new World War II-set story of four women on the home front competing for a spot hosting a BBC wartime cookery program and a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio...

"After a horrific carriage accident, Stella Violetta awakens in a Gothic mansion to find that her saviors are gorgeous young men. the manor's residents let her stay as a maid, but Stella soon realizes that their allure hides a savage thirst. Yearning leads to danger when mansion resident Levi starves himself for Stella's sake. To save him, Stella must journey into his soul while he's unconscious and confront the nun Luchia's grasp on his past. Then,...

"A modern-day homicide detective is working as an undertaker's assistant in Victorian Scotland when a serial poisoner attacks the men of Edinburgh and leaves their widows under suspicion. Edinburgh, 1869: Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her employers know she's not housemaid Catriona Mitchell-even though Mallory is in Catriona's body-and Mallory is now officially an undertaker's assistant....

"Even ultra-powerful dragons sometimes struggle to understand human society. Tohru squares off against a cleaning robot, Elma spends a day with Lucoa, Kanna plays detective, Ilulu tries to help Fafnir get more exercise. Miss Kobayashi is always at the center of it all. It's just another ordinary day in the fun-filled Volume 13!!"

Mrs. Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, while tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life--a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's never wanted anything so badly. Determined to make her dream come true, Mrs. Harris scrimps and saves...

Lady's maid Jenny Penny, a lord's illegitimate daughter, is a lover of fine frocks. But her credit's been cut off at the shops, forcing her to sell her homemade facial cream at night without her employer's knowledge. How could she know it would become the sensation of the ton when society ladies applied "tingle cream" to a most intimate part of their bodies?.Available only in Core 6 & 7.

"CRAZY RICH ASIANS meets THE HELP! From Reese's Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes an absolute tour de force-the wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own"--