Turansky, Carrie.
Summary: "Worlds lie between the marketplaces of India and the halls of a magnificent country estate like Highland Hall. Will Julia be able to find her place when a governess is neither upstairs family nor downstairs help? Missionary Julia Foster loves working alongside her parents, ministering and caring for young girls in India. But when the family must return to England due to illness, she readily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURWillig, Lauren.
Summary: Laura Grey, a veteran governess, joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and thrilling exploits. Instead, she is sent to serve as governess for the children of Andre Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. Jaouen and his arch rival, Gaston Delaroche, are investigating a suspected Royalist plot, and Laura's mission is to report anything suspicious. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WILGuhrke, Laura Lee
Summary: Lady Truelove may be London’s most famous advice columnist, but James St. Clair, the Earl of Kenyon, knows his wild young sons need a tutor, not a new mother. They need a man tough enough to make his hellions tow the line, and James is determined to find one. Miss Amanda Leighton, former schoolteacher and governess, knows she has all the qualifications to be a tutor. And while female tutors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUHLivesey, Margot.
Summary: Overcoming a life of hardship and loneliness, Gemma Hardy, a brilliant and determined young woman, accepts a position as an au pair on the remote Orkney Islands where she faces her biggest challenge yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Livesey 2012Shoemaker, Sarah
Summary: "<Strong>"Reader, she married me."</strong> For one hundred seventy years, Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature's most romantic, most complex, and most mysterious heroes. Sometimes haughty, sometimes tender-professing his love for Jane Eyre in one breath and denying it in the next-Mr. Rochester has for generations mesmerized, beguiled, and, yes, baffled fans of Charlotte...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOLondon, Julia
Summary: "An ill-fated elopement cost English-born governess Bernadette Holly her reputation, her unsuitable lover and any chance of a future match. She has nothing left to fear--not even the bitter, dangerously handsome Scot due to marry her young charge. Naive wallflower Avaline is terrified to wed Rabbie Mackenzie, but if he sends her home, she will be ruined. Bernadette's solution: convince Rabbie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONBronte, Charlotte
Summary: In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROHunter, Jillian.
Summary: "Courtesan Georgette Lawson entrusts governess Kate Walcott with the care of her unruly children and the writing of her shocking memoirs, but when Colin Boscastle, Georgette's first lover, comes back to restore his honor and avenge his father's murder, Kate's finds her heart at risk"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUNJames, Eloisa
Summary: Highly sought for her premiere governesses, witty and elusive Eugenia Snowe clashes with brilliant inventor Ward Reeve, who resorts to everything including kidnapping to claim her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AvonBooks, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Eloisa
Summary: The handsome, rakish heir to a dukedom, Lord Roland Northbridge Wilde, known to his friends as North, left England two years ago, after being jilted by Miss Diana Belgrave. He returns from war to find that he's notorious: polite society has ruled him "too wild to wed." Diana never meant to tarnish North's reputation, or his heart, but in her rush to save a helpless child, there was no time to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMBrontë, Charlotte
Summary: In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer, who has a terrible secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DODLadd, Sarah E
Summary: "In the first of a new series from beloved Regency romance author, Sarah Ladd, Delia, a governess to five recently orphaned children, would risk anything to protect them ... even her heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LADDodd, Christina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DODDodd, Christina.
Summary: A young governess arrives prepared to take chage of six rebellious girls, but finds dealing with their handsome widowed father more difficult.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DODDodd, Christina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001