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"The moment the plane touched down at Ministro Pistorini Airport in Buenos Aires, Joachim von Hartmann knew in every fiber of his being that he was home. It was almost as if his heart and soul, and even his body, knew it. He had left as a boy of seventeen, twenty-five years before, when he moved to France with his mother, and new French stepfather. Eight years later, he went to England on a lark, which turned into a worthy career for the past seventeen...
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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3.5 stars
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Inspired by a true story where Cecil Gaines, a devoted husband, father, and White House butler who served eight Presidential administrations during the turbulent politics and civil rights battles of twentieth century America.
3. The butler
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2013
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English
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This mesmerizing companion book to the award-winning film The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the eyes of Eugene Allen-a White House butler who served eight presidents over the course of thirty-four years. During the presidencies of Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, Eugene Allen was a butler in the most famous of residences: the White House. An African American who came...
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Lexile measure:
710L
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English
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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"In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages." --
"When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another...
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37 Ink/Atria
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture, as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served no fewer than eight presidents, from Harry...
6. Dear Beast
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Dear Beast volume 1
Publisher:
Holiday House
Lexile measure:
530L
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English
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Through a series of letters, Simon, a grumpy and jealous cat, informs Baxter, his boy's new dog, that he is not welcome and should leave at once.
7. Kindred
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580L
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English
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4.1 stars
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Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stays grow longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether...
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TO WED AND PROTECT. When she was entrusted with the young Collingwood heir, Juliana Goodhew never anticipated the atrocious murder of the toddler's parents or the reality of running for her life, baby in tow. Now she had no choice but to place her trust and her life in the hands of Hunter Sinclair, the enigmatic man who offered her every means of protection, even marriage. A wedded alliance with her reclusive guardian would reveal scandalous secrets...
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Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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Revised and updated paperback edition of the national bestseller (now in its fifth printing), and "definitive guide to the art of living well" (Charlotte Empey, editor-in-chief of Metro), including a new foreword by Debbie Travis and updated sections on business etiquette and everyday entertaining. Widely considered a world expert in butlering, Charles MacPherson lays out the essentials of household management in this wonderfully illustrated style,...
11. Black butler
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Yen Press
Pub. Date:
2010-
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English
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"Just a stone's throw from London lies the manor house of the illustrious Phantomhive earldom and its master, one Ciel Phantomhive. Earl Phantomhive is a giant in the world of commerce, Queen Victoria's faithful servant ... and a slip of a twelve-year-old boy. Fortunately, his loyal butler, Sebastian, is ever at his side, ready to carry out the young master's wishes. And whether Sebastian is called to save a dinner party gone awry or probe the dark...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date:
2011
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English
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B With a houseful of foster children, Michelle Worthington needed a handyman, security guard and temporary dad all rolled into one. Her help-wanted ad landed her a thief, a drunk and a cross-dresser! Surely, advertising for a butler would bring her a higher class of a man, wouldn't it? Or Bodyguard? She'd hoped for a proper gentleman; she got Devlin Rhett-six feet two inches, with the features of Adonis and sensuality oozing from every pore of his...
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Wildside Press
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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What happens when your weird cousin sends you a telegram stating that your aunt's dead and the butler did Lindsay Graham discovers that there's more in store than a traditional English funeral and the requisite neighborhood gathering. Way more. Maria Lima's Agatha-Award nominated short story is a great read! Just don't go into it expecting a novel-length work; it's a short story, and priced accordingly.
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Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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"Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, he's not sure what he'll find. He is sure of one thing-he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. It's forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes,...
18. Erewhon
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1420L
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English
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"A utopian classic with a rich legacy-influencing authors from Huxley to Herbert and beyond-Erewhon satirizes Victorian society with biting insight still relevant today. When Higgs, a young traveler, stumbles upon the beautiful land of Erewhon, he soon discovers that its seemingly ideal culture is founded upon bizarre, unsettling beliefs. Crime is a sickness, while sickness is a crime; the greatest scholarly achievement is unreason, and all machines...
19. The Butler's Son
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Thunderchild Publishing
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Eighteen-year-old Max Edwards, the self-educated son of a butler, lives on a grand Irish country estate. He dreams of a better life and unexpectedly finds love with the owner's new Japanese bride, but class differences make their love impossible. World War I erupts, and Max faces the nightmarish Battle of the Somme. Wounded in combat, he meets a commander who transfers him to the Royal Flying Corps to be a pilot. In the air, he fights the famous Red...
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Treasure Troop volume 1
Publisher:
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date:
2021
Lexile measure:
580L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Marly and two classmates she barely knows--Isla and Sai--must work together to unravel the clues leading to the treasure left for them in Mr. Summerling's will.