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Kirrinfief volume 02
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English
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"Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four year old son Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where shouting football fans keep them awake all night. Hari's dad, Jaz, a charismatic but perpetually broke DJ, is no help at all. But his sister Surinder comes to Zoe's aid, hooking her up with a job as far away from the urban crush as possible: a bookshop on...
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English
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No one has ever accused Sage Cunningham of being easily distracted. She has a plan, and she won't be swayed. She'll spend the summer interning in her mentor's lab in Amsterdam, and then she'll be ready for college. All she needs to do to pay for the summer abroad is agree to serve as the au pair for Dr. Reese's three-year-old. Sage has it all down to a science, but she doesn't anticipate the surprise arrival of Dr. Reese's teenage son. Ryland is spontaneous,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After an au pair's tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor in 1980s England with the estate's chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling gothic romance. At Bly Manor, dead doesn't mean gone.
5) The au pair
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English
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"An addictive, highly commercial suspense novel featuring a grand estate, terrible secrets, and a young woman who bears witness to it all. If V.C. Andrews, Kate Morton, and Lexie Elliot had a love child, Emma Rous and THE AU PAIR would be it. Seraphine Mayes and her twin brother Danny were born in the middle of summer at their family's estate on the Norfolk coast. Within hours of their birth, their mother threw herself from the cliffs, the au pair...
6) Family album
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English
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All Alison ever wanted was a blissful childhood for her six children, with summers at the beach and birthday parties on the law at their family home. Together with Ingrid, the family au pair, she has worked hard to create a real old-fashioned family life. But beneath its postcard sheen, the picture is clouded by a distant father, Alison's inexplicable emotional outbursts, and long-repressed secrets that no one dares mention.
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English
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Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home in the affluent suburban community of Maisons-Larue, watching as the family's American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at fault-the enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself, who has never seemed an active participant in the lives of...
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English
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Be careful who you invite into the bosom of your home — she may never leave...A novel from Fay Weldon, the writer who knows women better than they know themselves. Hattie has a difficult if loving partner, Martyn, an absentee mother, Lallie, and a cynical if attentive grandmother Frances. She tries to do the right and moral thing in a tricky world, and always has. But she now has a baby, Kitty, which makes true morality rather harder to achieve....
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English
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Winner of England's Whitbread Award for Saving Agnes and the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award, Rachel Cusk has won popular and critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. This young British author's beguiling novel is both poignant and hilarious. When Stella leaves London for a small village in Sussex, she hopes that the country life will be conducive to her journey toward self-discovery. She'll have no more insipid lover, dead end job, or controlling...
10) The Pear affair
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While accompanying her parents to Paris, twelve-year-old Nell sets off to investigate the disappearance of her beloved, former au pair, Perrine, affectionately known as Pear.
11) School's out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Lucas thinks his summer vacation is ruined when Mom hires a French au pair to watch over Lucas and his two-year-old twin brothers.
12) Sun-kissed
Author
Series
Au pairs volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Graduated from high school and back for a third summer in the Hamptons, Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui find that life is not as carefree as they had hoped when boyfriends, jobs, and school problems intrude.
Author
Series
Au pairs volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three teenage girls from different backgrounds work for a summer in the Hamptons as au pairs for a wealthy family, and in spite of many ups and downs, all three end up changing for the better.
14) Skinny-dipping
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
When Eliza lands an internship at a club, Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui are annoyed until they learn that the new au pair, Laurent, is gorgeous, French, and male, which is only one of the complications their friendship will have to endure during their summer in the Hamptons.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Surrounded by wealth and living in Manhattan, twelve year old prodigy Reggie, lives a solitary life without his frequently absent parents. Estranged from family, Eleanor needs a new place to live and a new job. Fate winds her lovely fingers around these two lives to place Eleanor as the new au pair for Reggie and the music in their hearts intertwines to create this beautiful story about discovery and acceptance.
19) Re Jane
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Jane Re--a half-Korean, half-American orphan--takes a position as an au pair for two Brooklyn academics and their daughter, but a brief sojourn in Seoul, where she reconnects with family, causes her to wonder if the man she loves is really the man for her as she tries to find balance between two cultures.
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