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The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations. 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,…
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Naughty girls are spanked, and all girls are naughty -- the grown-up girls in Devlin O'Neill's world, that is. Here are 11 stories -- lusty tales of bare bottoms affectionately reddened, penned by the author of A Maid for All Seasons. The girls never mean to be disobedient, yet somehow they always are, and it…
"A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide (Barack Obama)," this New York Times bestselling memoir is the inspiration for the Netflix limited series, hailed by Rolling Stone as "a great one." At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned…
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The famous fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm - stories like Snow White , Red Riding Hood , and Rumplestiltskin - are know to millions of people around the world and are deeply embedded in the collective psyche. In this charming account, writer and scholar Valerie Paradiz reveals the true story of how the fairy…
Travel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery from the author of the Agatha Raisin series.Death of a Maid: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryMrs. Gillespie is famous around the northwest of Sutherland for being the best charwoman ever. Of course, if anyone has any social pretensions one does not say charwoman, one…
In this heart-shattering WWII novel set during the Nazi occupation of Paris, a brave young woman pays a terrible price to save those she holds most dear. Louise Basset works as a housemaid at The Ritz Hotel, home to the most powerful Nazis in France. As she changes silk sheets and scrubs sumptuous marble bathtubs,…
Such a naughty maid . . . she really must be disciplined. Lisa, Michael, Beth, and friends return for more adventures in small town Middle America. The town is ordinary, but some of the men and women who live there deal with their inner desires in unique ways. Michael responds as he always has to…
Lisa is all grown up now, or so she thinks. She has her own business and a real boyfriend, but she hasn't outgrown the need to stick her pert little nose where it doesn't belong, nor have the men in her life -- Michael, Greg, and Professor Travis -- seen fit to stop spanking her…
