household employees

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household employees

The gallery

In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.
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Lazarillo de Tormes

L?zaro, a Salamanca town crier, relates the story of his struggle out of poverty, beginning with his widowed mother who apprenticed him to a cunning, blind beggar, and leading to his efforts at outwitting a variety of disreputable masters before getting married to the mistress of a local churchman.
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Beneath my mother's feet

When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.
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Grow a ghost!

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.
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Gosford Park

What starts out as a typical country party at Gosford Park turns into something more sinister when one of the guests turns up dead. Includes commentaries, deleted scenes, production featurette, and other special features.

The others

Grace raises her two children in a mansion on the island of Jersey while her husband is fighting in World War II. The children have xeroderma pigmentosum and cannot be exposed to sunlight. Three mysterious servants arrive at the house and attempt to take over.

Careers for the 21st century video library

Explores eight service jobs and lists typical job duties and identifies where and how to receive the necessary education and training.

Servant to Abigail Adams

the early American adventures of Hannah Cooper
In 1800, thirteen-year-old Hannah Cooper works as a servant for Abigail Adams. Hannah corresponds with her printer brother, Daniel, about President Adams's run for re-election against Thomas Jefferson, the newly constructed White House, and life in the President's household.

Thank you, Amelia Bedelia

Amelia Bedelia, the new maid, is so eager to please that she follows instructions to the letter.

The white snake

adapted from a fairy tale by the Grimm brothers
A graphic novel adaptation of the tale of Randall, a young servant who eats a forbidden food, gains the ability to understand animals' speech, and attains great rewards.

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