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Hardcover:
9780802733412 | Walker & Co, May 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Hilda Johansson grows suspicious that a group of anarchists in South Bend, Indiana, may be connected in some way to the assassination of President McKinley and sets out to investigate.
Hardcover:
9780553107340 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The horrifying mutilation murder of a young servant girl from a nearby estate draws author-turned-sleuth Jane Austen into a mystery that could lead her into a perilous search for a madman.
Hardcover:
9780909144494 | Fremantle Arts Center Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This is the story of an old cleaning woman, known as Weekly, or 'The Newspaper'.
9780670809462 | Viking Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Motivated by the desire to own her own land and a country house, Claremont Street cleaning lady and local gossip authority Margarite Morris is helped toward her goal by a perfectly timed accidental death
9780909144487 | Fremantle Pr, February 1, 1985, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Motivated by the desire to own her own land and a country house, Claremont Street cleaning lady and local gossip authority Margarite Morris is helped toward her goal by a perfectly timed accidental death
Paperback:
9781921361364 | Fremantle Pr, April 30, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This is the story of an old cleaning womanÂknown as ÂWeeklyâ or ÂThe Newspaperâ to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she worksÂwho dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present.
9780949206596, titled "Newspaper of Claremont Street" | Fremantle Arts Center Pr, May 16, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The central character of Weekly dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present, as she battles against a hostile community to buy her plot of land.
9781860498329 | New edition (Gardners Books, October 5, 2000), cover price $12.55 | About this edition: Unknown to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she works, elderly cleaning lady 'Weekly' or 'the Newspaper' dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present.
9780140085822 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1988), cover price $6.95
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9780743201964 | Scribner, February 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: When Dora, the village prostitute, is found dead at the bottom of a ravine, a young chambermaid serving the mistress of the local manor embarks on a journey to unravel the mystery surrounding Dora's death, in a novel set in rural seventeenth-century England.
Miscellaneous:
9780743213769 | Scribner, May 3, 2001, cover price $9.99
Hardcover:
9780805067002 | Henry Holt & Co, July 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: An outsider raised in an orphanage, Geneviáeve lives a reclusive existence as maid to a widowed storyteller, until she escapes her village home to work for a poet, who uses words to captivate the women around him, including Geneviáeve.
9780316854566 | Little Brown & Co, December 1, 2000, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: In the orphanage, she whispers her tales at night.
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9781860499012 | New edition (Gardners Books, August 2, 2001), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Genevieve is maid to Madame Patin in a country bar and cafe and becomes the breathless audience to her mistress's folk stories, beginning with the siren-calling mermaid.
Life is not easy for a 16-year-old girl living in small-town South India. When the inevitable marriage arrangement is made, fuelled by her dreams and Audrey Hepburn movies, she runs away to the city. She embraces this new world with courage, but soon realizes that she can't run forever.
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9780747553410 | New edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, August 6, 2001), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Life is not easy for a 16-year-old girl living in small-town South India.
9781582341279 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: To escape an arranged marriage, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a middle class South Indian family runs away to Delhi and takes a job as a maid in a household where the other servants are as strange as her employers.
Hardcover:
9781574904505 | Large print edition (Thomas t Beeler, February 1, 2003), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Book by Dams, Jeanne M.
9780802733733 | Walker & Co, May 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Hilda Johansson is delighted by her reunion with her family, but when one of her brother's friends turns up badly beaten, Hilda turns sleuth to uncover the truth.
Worshipped by men and despised by women for her unusual personal scent that makes her sexually irresistible and powerful, albino chambermaid Ramona is driven away after having an affair and, having lost her scent after giving birth, seeks revenge at the estate where she formerly worked. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780066212593 | Ecco Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Ramona, an exotic albino with a unique odor that gives her a sensual power over men, is exiled from the Italian estate at which she works when her husband dies after finding Ramona in the arms of her lover on their wedding day.
Paperback:
9780060936822 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, July 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Worshipped by men and despised by women for her unusual personal scent that makes her sexually irresistible and powerful, albino chambermaid Ramona is driven away after having an affair and, having lost her scent after giving birth, seeks revenge at the estate where she formerly worked.
Hardcover:
9780688176846 | 1 edition (William Morrow & Co, September 1, 2002), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Scavenging Restoration London for scandals that can keep them afloat, the impoverished Countess Ashby and her faithful maidservant, Alpiew, stumble across a murder at a philosophy lecture hall and discover an abundance of suspects.
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9781934609750 | Reprint edition (Felony & Mayhem, May 16, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: London 1699.
When Native American Rachel Winnapee takes a job at the March summer home on Lake Michigan, she soon learns her place amidst the upper-class, until a war-wounded Woody, the family heir, returns home wounded in body and soul, and falls in love with this very different woman. A first novel.
Hardcover:
9780060542665 | 1 edition (William Morrow & Co, June 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When Native American Rachel Winnapee takes a job at the March summer home on Lake Michigan, she soon learns her place amidst the upper-class, until a war-wounded Woody, the family heir, returns home and falls in love with her.
Sent from her native Tunisia to replace her late sister as a maid to the demanding Countess, young Fatima finds the streets of Paris impossibly confusing, until she makes friends with a flamboyant American, Hadley Hadley III, and the eccentric patrons of the local Café Jean Valjean, who help her find herself, in a parable about the power of kindness. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9781401351991 | 1 edition (Miramax, October 1, 2003), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Sent from her native Tunisia to replace her late sister as a maid to the demanding Countess, young Fatima finds the streets of Paris impossibly confusing, until she makes friends with a flamboyant American, Hadley Hadley III.
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9780425198452 | Prime Crime, November 30, 2004, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: When a traveler recently returned from the Far East enlists the assistance of her employer, master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, after nearly being killed under mysterious circumstances, housekeeper Mrs.
Hardcover:
9780786282005 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 16, 2005), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In 1839, indentured servant Reese Thackery is determined to serve her remaining two years at the Tucker Mills bank willingly, but when the bank's owner, Conner Kingsley, arrives in town, Reese dares to dream of better things for herself.
Paperback:
9781594151118 | Large print edition (Christian Large Print, September 30, 2006), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In 1839, indentured servant Reese Thackery is determined to serve her remaining two years at the Tucker Mills bank willingly, but when the bank's owner, Conner Kingsley, arrives in town, Reese dares to dream of better things for herself.
9780736911597 | Harvest House Pub, July 1, 2005, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Through a hard turn of events, Reese Thackery has become an indentured servant.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781598590807 | Unabridged edition (Oasis Audio, September 1, 2005), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In 1839, indentured servant Reese Thackery is determined to serve her remaining two years at the Tucker Mills bank willingly, but when the bank's owner, Conner Kingsley, arrives in town, Reese dares to dream of better things for herself.
Paperback:
9780425206515 | Reprint edition (Prime Crime, October 3, 2006), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When a priceless ruby known as the Malabar Rose vanishes while being guarded by Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr.
9780425202821 | Berkley Pub Group, August 1, 2005, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: When a priceless ruby known as the Malabar Rose vanishes while being guarded by Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr.
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9780802170149 | Black Cat, September 9, 2005, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Raised in a wealthy family in the Sudan, Najwa never imagined that a journey that began at Khartoum university would wind its way to London, where, in her late thirties, she finds herself working as a maid and dreaming about all she has lost.
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9780316114660 | Back Bay Books, February 7, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Revered as one of Tahiti's wisest women, Materena Mahi, a professional cleaner, finds her resolve challenged by her young daughter, who questions her at every turn and resists Materena's efforts to mold her into an ideal young woman.
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9781400097999 | Broadway Books, March 28, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: During an audition for a play about Jane Austen, New York actress C.
Miscellaneous:
9780307345325 | Crown Pub, March 28, 2006, cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9780786295074 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 2, 2007), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Dublin widow Paula begins her fifth month of sobriety as she raises her two children who are still at home, struggles to make ends meet, attends parent-teacher conferences, and develops a taste for rock music.
9780670038169 | Viking Pr, December 28, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Dublin widow Paula begins her fifth month of sobriety as she raises her two children who are still at home, struggles to make ends meet, attends parent-teacher conferences, and develops a taste for rock music.
Paperback:
9780143112730 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 18, 2007), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Picking up nearly ten years after the tale, The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Dublin widow Paula begins her fifth month of sobriety while endeavoring to raise the two children who are still at home, an endeavor during which she struggles to make ends meet, attends parent-teacher conferences, and develops a taste for rock music.
9780676978452 | Reprint edition (Vintage, September 4, 2007), cover price $22.01 | About this edition: In this new novel, set in contemporary Dublin, Roddy Doyle returns to Paula Spencer (âOne of Doyleâs finest creationsâ â Toronto Star), the beloved heroine of the bestselling The Woman Who Walked into Doors, with spectacular results.
9780224078672 | Vintage Uk, September 7, 2006, cover price $20.25 | About this edition: Begins on the eve of Paula's forty-ninth birthday.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781846570360 | Gardners Books, September 7, 2006, cover price $29.85 | About this edition: Begins on the eve of Paula's forty-ninth birthday.
Hardcover:
9780307209962 | Crown Pub, November 14, 2006, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A retired gambler who has traded in his cards for a peaceful life on a remote ranch, Winchell Dear is enjoying his quiet and reclusive life until three heavily armed men arrive to turn his life upside down.
Miscellaneous:
9780307351593 | Crown Pub, November 14, 2006, cover price $10.95
Hardcover:
9780312362065 | St Martins Pr, November 28, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When her profligate father loses his fortune, Caroline agrees with his scheme to set her up as the companion of a wealthy and powerful society matron and use her beauty and intelligence to attract the attentions of Regency society's most eligible men.
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9780312374372 | Reprint edition (Griffin, October 16, 2007), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: When her profligate father loses his fortune, Caroline agrees with his scheme to set her up as the companion of a wealthy and powerful society matron in which position she is to use her beauty and intelligence to attract the attentions of some of Regency society's most eligible men, but she soon discovers that love and marriage are not what some 'gentlemen' seek.
Hardcover:
9780805066661 | Metropolitan Books, April 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: When Annie Phelan goes to work for the Dashells, she enters a world her strict upbringing did not prepare her for, where she is asked to be the Muse for Isabel's portraits and a member of Eldon's imaginary Arctic expeditions.
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9781554684731 | Harpercollins Canada, July 10, 2009, cover price $17.99
9780312420642 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, March 1, 2002), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: When Annie Phelan goes to work for Isabel and Eldon Dashell as a maid, she enters a world her strict upbringing did not prepare her for, where she is asked to be the Muse for Isabel's portraits and a member of Eldon's imaginary Arctic expeditions, which leads to trouble.
Paperback:
9780451229335 | Signet, March 2, 2010, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: New York Times bestseller Christina Dodd has sold over five million historical romances!
Miscellaneous:
9781101180709 | Signet, March 2, 2010, cover price $6.99
Paperback:
9781410430618 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, November 17, 2010), cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Always eccentric, Olive Kettering has become downright peculiar.
9780425235249 | Berkley Pub Group, June 1, 2010, cover price $7.99
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9781402255953 | Reprint edition (Sourcebooks Landmark, April 1, 2011), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: "Margaret Campbell Barnes has been one of the most reliable of England's historical novelists.
Paperback:
9780425242117 | Berkley Sensation, July 5, 2011, cover price $7.99
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