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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"...As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer--his 'Keltjin potatoes' are justifiably famous--has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all, can love can really overcome the boundaries of race and class? With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam's second novel is both heartfelt and thought-provoking."--Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere...From the...
4) Martha, no!
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mischievous Martha Felicity Molly-Anne May challenges the best efforts of her latest nanny, Miss Harrington-Chive, during a sequence of outings at a park, a museum, and at formal tea.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
North Archer, Andie Miller's ex-husband, asks her to become the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already--and live in a haunted house! What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fiancé. And just when Andie thinks things couldn't get more complicated, North shows up...
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Green announces his diabolical plan to remarry, his children are horrified at the thought of losing their beloved Nanny Piggins.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Newly orphaned seventeen-year old Marin accepts a nanny position for an acclaimed horror writer and her mother's childhood friend, but she soon realizes all is not well at Lovelace House and must unravel its secrets before they consume her.
10) Hidden pictures
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory...
Author
Series
Cedar Springs romances volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Jane Aaron comes to Cedar Springs in search of her birth mother and is hired by widower Asher Price to care for his two children, but as unexpected romance blossoms between them, Jane discovers a secret that could tear them apart.
Author
Series
Lorraine Fisher novels volume 1
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter is set over the course of one summer on a lush private island and explores addiction and sex, family and independence and who holds the power in a modern underworld.
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones and the Six in this funny, wise and tender novel about a fourteen-year-old girl's coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for - who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer"--
1970s Baltimore. Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family's subscription...
Author
Series
Dream Harbor novels volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"As a world-renowned chef, single dad Archer never planned on moving to a small town, let alone running a pancake restaurant. But Dream Harbor needs a new chef, and Archer needs a community to help raise his daughter, Olive. Iris has never managed to hold down a job for more than a few months. So when it's suggested that Archer is looking for a live-in nanny, she almost runs in the opposite direction. Now, Iris finds herself in a whole new world....
16) Mrs. England
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1904 West Yorkshire, Ruby May accepts a nanny position to look after the children of a wealthy couple, hoping it will be the fresh start she needs, but instead finds a series of strange events, forcing her to question everything she thought she knew.
Author
Series
Rogues and remarkable women volume 1
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune—and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child—until 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. Especially when Patience discovers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still grieving her father's death, Nina learns she has inherited property in the British Virgin Islands--a vacation home she had no idea existed, until now. The house is extraordinary: state-of-the-art, all glass and marble. How did her sensible father come into enough money for this? Why did he keep it from her? And what else was he hiding? Once an ambitious medical student, Maria is a nanny for the super-rich. The money's better and so are the destinations...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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...
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