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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
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The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking,...
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"Two different worlds and two very different lives collide in Paris ... Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the precision and intense demands, and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes...
3) The Butler
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Inspired by a true story about 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.
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Series
Black butler volume 25
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Sphere Music Hall, with its elaborate entertainments, has the denizens of London under its spell and at the mercy of its resident cult's nefarious motives. To snap the populace out of the trance, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his unparalleled butler Sebastian get down to business--literally. The young earl takes the fight right to the enemy's door by opening a music hall of his own. But as a new kind of battle gets under way on the stage, Othello, a...
8) The butler
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Inspired by a true story about 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.
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Likable Bob can't hold a job, and alphabetically finds employment using the phonebook. Once in the "B's", he stumbles upon Butler School and is soon hired by Anne, single mother of two and business owner, who desperately needs help. But trouble ensues when Bob is in charge of all the household duties and Anne's family will never be the same!
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"In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman-his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe-and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr. Crowe was once famed for his gifts-unaccountable gifts, known...
11) The Aristocats
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In the heart of Paris, a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to Duchess, her high-society cat. Duchess has three little kittens. A greedy, bumbling butler pulls off the ultimate catnap caper. Now it's up to the rough-and-tumble alley cat, Thomas O'Malley, and his band of swingin' jazz cats to save the day.
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Series
Black butler volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
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"Just a stone's throw from London lies the manor house of the illustrious Phantomhive earldom, 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 secrets...
13) Bob the butler
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Likable, bumbling Bob can't hold a job, and finds employment using the phonebook. Once in the B's, he stumbles upon Butler School and is soon hired by Anne, a single mother of two and a business owner, who desperately needs help.
14) Grow a ghost!
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Series
Ghost detectors volume 17
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Malcolm spots an advertisement for Mystic Mack's Grow A Ghost, he jumps at the chance to have a butler ghost to do his chores and homework, and spy on his sister--but soon things start to go wrong, and this ghost proves difficult to get rid of.
15) My man Godfrey
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This madcap, romantic romp is one of the finest screwball comedies of them all. Carole Lonbard is a party girl who finds a tramp during a society scavenger hunt and hires him as a butler for her wacky family...never knowiwng that he is richer than she is! William Powell is the very model of sophisticated comedy as the 'butler' who teaches them that money isn't everything.
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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...
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Series
Romney Marsh romances volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Michaels introduces the Beckets of Romney Marsh, a sprawling British family headed by the eccentric Ainsley Becket and filled out, mostly, with children he "adopted, purchased, [or] scooped up" during his time as a businessman in the Caribbean. In 1811, Ainsley's son Chance, at 30 the eldest of the eight children, is returning to the family estate in Kent with his five-year-old daughter, Alice, and an assignment from the War Office to investigate...
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Series
Westham-Brentwood volume 1
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Morgan Drummond, Marquis of Westham returns home after a five-year absence to find a horde of strangers who've taken up residence in his house, courtesy of his butler.