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Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she’s mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have... (more)

Home Comforts : The Art and Science of Keeping House

Home Comforts : The Art and Science of Keeping House

by Cheryl Mendelson

Home Comforts is something new. For the first time in nearly a century, a sole author has written a comprehensive book about housekeeping. This is not a dry how-to manual, nor a collection of odd tips and hints, a cleaning book, a history book, or an arid encyclopedia compiled by a committee or an institute. Home Comforts is a readable explanation for both beginners and experts of all the domestic arts --... (more)

The Help

by Kathryn Stockett

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will... (more)

Sink Reflections: Overwhelmed? Disorganized? Living in Chaos? The FlyLady's Simple FLYing Lessons Will Show You How to Get Your Home and Your Life in Order--and It All Starts with Shining Your Sink!

Sink Reflections: Overwhelmed? Disorganized? Living in Chaos? The FlyLady's Simple FLYing Lessons Will Show You How to Get Your Home and Your Life in Order--and It All Starts with Shining Your Sink!

by Marla Cilley

Fly Out of CHAOS (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome) Into Order--One BabyStep at a Time With her special blend of housecleaning tips, humor, and musings about daily life, Marla Cilley, a.k.a. The FlyLady, shows you how to manage clutter and chaos and get your home--and your life--in order. Drawn from the lessons and tools used in her popular mentoring program, FlyLady helps you create doable housekeeping routines... (more)

Passionate Housewives Desperate for God

by Stacy McDonald, Jennie Chancey

Have you struggled to reconcile God's vision of virtuous womanhood with worldly myths that marginalize and mock the role of the homemaker? Do you wrestle with cultural messages that demean the homemaker s calling and exalt instead the emotionally androgynous power-woman---the wife whose worth is measured only by the degree of her self-ambition, the shape of her body, or her money-making skills? Delightfully... (more)

Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home

Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home

by Martha Stewart

Whether your home is small or large, an apartment in the city or a country cottage, it is a space that should be at once beautiful and livable. The key to that is managing the upkeep without feeling flustered. Until now, there has never been a comprehensive resource that not only tells how to care for your home and everything in it, but that also simplifies the process by explaining just when. With secrets from... (more)

The Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle

The Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle

by Amy Dacyczyn

Having discovered that frugality is good for the bank account and the environment, Amy Dacyczyn started a newsletter for skinflints in 1989. Within a year, 50,000 cheapskates had subscribed to The Tightwad Gazette. Now Amy has collected all her wisdom into a book, and it's as good a deal as you'll find in these inflationary times. Line drawings.

Talking Dirty With the Queen of Clean: Second Edition

Talking Dirty With the Queen of Clean: Second Edition

by Linda Cobb

Want to clean a coffeepot in a flash? Unclog a sink with a simple homemade solution ? Do away with microwave odors? Banish those dust bunnies? Let her royal highness of housekeeping show you how to turn your home into a sparkling palace -- in no time at all! Step aside, Martha...Here comes the Queen of Clean, and her down-to-earth housekeeping guide for those of us who live in the real world. After all, the... (more)

The Tightwad Gazette #2: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle

The Tightwad Gazette #2: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle

by Amy Dacyczyn

The Tightwad Gazette II The Perfect -- and Cheap -- Home Chili Recipe! New Uses for Old Blue Jeans! Make a Quilt for Ninety-five Cents! In 1993, Amy Dacyczyn's first book featured advice from the pages of her two-year-old newsletter The Tightwad Gazette. Over 250,000 copies were sold, inspiring millions of people to profit through thrift. Now, The Tightwad Gazette II serves up all-new help and hints from the... (more)

Clutter Be Gone: Cleaning Your House the Easy Way

Clutter Be Gone: Cleaning Your House the Easy Way

by Don Aslett

Making a Home: Housekeeping For Real Life (Better Homes & Gardens)

Making a Home: Housekeeping For Real Life (Better Homes & Gardens)

by Better Homes and Gardens Books

Learn to organize, furnish, clean, and enjoy your home by following the timesaving tips and down-to-earth advice in the new book Making a Home: Housekeeping for Real Life, from Better Homes and Gardens®.

Simple Secrets to a Beautiful Home: Creating a Place You and Your Family Will Love

Simple Secrets to a Beautiful Home: Creating a Place You and Your Family Will Love

by Emilie Barnes

The good news is that a beautiful home doesn’t require too much money, too much energy, or too much time. Bestselling author and home–management expert Emilie Barnes shows readers how they can easily weave beauty and happiness into the fabric of their daily lives. With just a touch of inspiration, readers can turn their homes into havens of welcome and blessing build a lifestyle that beautifully... (more)

How to Organize (Just About) Everything: More Than 500 Step-by-Step Instructions for Everything from Organizing Your Closets to Planning a Wedding to Creating a Flawless Filing System

How to Organize (Just About) Everything: More Than 500 Step-by-Step Instructions for Everything from Organizing Your Closets to Planning a Wedding to Creating a Flawless Filing System

by Peter Walsh

Professional organizer Peter Walsh presents this witty and enormously practical guide to getting it -- and keeping it -- all together. With more than 500 easy-to-follow how-to instructions, How to Organize (Just About) Everything is packed with shrewd advice and insider tips to make your home, your workplace -- indeed, every imaginable aspect of your life -- run more smoothly. Step-by-step solutions help even the... (more)

The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping: The Care of Collections in Historic Houses Open to the Public

The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping: The Care of Collections in Historic Houses Open to the Public

by National Trust

The Manual of Housekeeping is essential reading for all those involved in the care of historic houses and their collections. Building on the success of bestselling earlier editions, this greatly expanded manual covers a wider range of subjects in greater detail and includes the very latest thinking on housekeeping theory and practice. The National Trust gives detailed practical guidance on the care and... (more)

How to Do Just About Everything

by Courtney Rosen

The experts at eHow know how to do just about everything, and in this comprehensive reference book, they share their know-how with you. From pets to home improvement, sports to job survival, here are 1,001 how-to solutions to help you get the job done -- and done well. For every task, eHow provides concise step-by-step instructions, helpful tips and warnings, and useful lists of everything you'll need to get the... (more)

How to Clean Practically Anything

by The Editors of Consumer Reports

A handy, up-to-date guide describes the most efficient and cost-effective ways to clean practically everything, with special sections on how to cope with daily cleaning regimens, eliminating germs, paint removal, oven cleaners, carpet and floor cleaning, and safe storage of cleaning supplies. Original.

Household hints and handy tips

by Editors of Readers Digest

More than 4000 time-saving and cost-saving tips for everyday life. Packed with shortcuts, practical advice, ingenious ideas, how-to information, and more than 1000 illustrations, all designed to save time and trouble.

Emilie's Creative Home Organizer (Barnes, Emilie)

Emilie's Creative Home Organizer (Barnes, Emilie)

by Emilie Barnes

More than 285,000 copies of Emilie’s Creative Home Organizer have been sold! With its new cover, Emilie’s timeless household wisdom will reach even more women from all walks of life. A time and organizational management expert, Emilie offers thousands of helpful tips for cleaning, cooking, gardening, staying healthy, raising children, and more. From the kitchen to the bathroom, from doing laundry to... (more)

The 15 Minute Organizer

by Emilie Barnes

Bestselling author and time–management expert Emilie Barnes gives women the basic strategies they need to survive in today’s busy world. Realistic and practical, each chapter offers proven methods for taking the stress out of meal planning, housekeeping, finances, holiday shopping, and more. In just 15 minutes a day, readers will discover how to— whip their entire house into shape create a... (more)

The Tightwad gazette III : promoting thrift as a viable alternative lifestyle

The Tightwad gazette III : promoting thrift as a viable alternative lifestyle

by Amy Dacyczyn

This third collection of the best of Dacyczyn's popular newsletter presents all-new advice and tips, culled from the fifth and sixth years of The Tightwad Gazette. A tireless advocate of "voluntary simplicity, " Dacyczyn offers lessons in advanced "tightwaddery, " such as how to cut back APR interest points on credit cards, strategies for comparing food bills, guides to saving on the cost of college, and the... (more)

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by Sophie Kinsella

by Cheryl Mendelson

by Kathryn Stockett

by Marla Cilley

by Stacy McDonald, Jennie Chancey

by Martha Stewart

by Amy Dacyczyn

by Linda Cobb

by Amy Dacyczyn

by Don Aslett

by Better Homes and Gardens Books

by Emilie Barnes

by Peter Walsh

by National Trust

by Courtney Rosen

by The Editors of Consumer Reports

by Editors of Readers Digest

by Emilie Barnes

by Emilie Barnes

by Amy Dacyczyn