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282) alkhadima
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Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of...
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"At the end of her wandering, Sumire the nekomata found herself in the company of a spirited android and a compassionate undead. Led by the sweets-loving elder prince, the team of monster maids travels across the Demon Realm outsmarting mad scientists and rescuing damsels in distress. However, unbeknownst to them, trouble is brewing, as word of their exploits has reached the ears of the demon king's underlings..."--
285) Chiisai ouchi
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日本語
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The time frame is 1931-1945, as Japan drifts towards war. But while the sociopolitical aspects make an important backdrop, the story is deeply personal: the doomed illicit love between a married matron and her husband's artistic colleague, as observed and later recalled by an innocent servant girl.
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日本語
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Teenage millionaire Yoshikata lives on his own in a magnificent mansion, and, having fired the original maids, needs help keeping up the place. Enter Izumi and Mitsuki, two girls of Yoshikata's age, who accept his offer of to fill in as live-in maids. Along with Anna, another maid, the three girls live with the eccentric Yoshitaka in a goofball comedy that brings laughs with every episode. Contains all 12 episodes.
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Telne, an ancient and powerful harmony dragon, has arranged for Elma to return to the dragon world and enter a political marriage. While Elma herself is agreeable, Kobayashi and Tohru are unable to accept it, and they find themselves re-evaluating everything they thought they understood. When a dragon and a human put their heads together, what kind of answer will they find?
291) La joven de la perla
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"Países Bajos, siglo XVII. La joven Griet, de dieciseis años, entra a trabajar al servicio de Johannes Vermeer en la ciudad de Delft. Griet parece saber cuál es su papel en la casa: ocuparse de las tareas domesticas y cuidar a los seis niños del pintor. Sin embargo, la sensibilidad de la muchacha llama la atención de Vermeer, quien le abre las puertas de su mundo y su trabajo. A medida que la intimidad crece entre ambos, tambien lo hacen la tensión...
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"Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, to solve the case. Armed with wit and whimsy, not to mention Florence's mean right hook, the pair set out to discover what really happened...
295) La casa del azúcar
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Nos remontamos a 1907, cuando Manuela, una inocente y analfabeta chica de quince años, empieza a trabajar para la familia más rica de Terreros, un pueblo de Aragón. Para cualquier chica de su condición se trata de una oportunidad única de escapar de trabajos mucho más duros. Al entrar en la Casa Grande intenta pasar desapercibida, pero pronto hará gran amistad con Inés, la hija más joven de la familia, que le enseñará a leer, y se enamorará...
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"Sumire has settled into her place among the employees of Cirsium Domestic Staffing Agency quite nicely--between dealing with magic gone wild and unmasking predators, she's become an integral part of their strange little family. But family can be rather complicated, and as the demon king's minions close in on their prey, the sparks of an age-old feud between two brothers threaten to engulf the Demon Realm once more..."--
297) Rotten to the core
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Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 8
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"Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through the heart. Amateur sleuth Lady Hardcastle and her trusty lady's maid, Flo, suddenly have a juicy case on their hands. Might the mysterious stranger they recently met in the village be to blame? When a...
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