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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The heart of the matter	Graham Greene	Focusing on a British police officer in an unnamed West African colony, this novel attempts to show, along with the socially restricted lives of colonists in Africa, the effects of sin on a devout ca…	OL106077W
American Women Writers	Edith Wharton,Louisa May Alcott,Kate Chopin,Edna Ferber	[The Awakening][1] / Kate Chopin -- A whisper in the dark / Louisa May Alcott -- Selected stories / Edna Ferber -- The house of mirth (an extract) / Edith Wharton. [1]: https://openlibrary.…	OL14943618W
Cybele	Joyce Carol Oates	"In this mordant allegory about deluded obsession, Joyce Carol Oates has transformed the earth goddess Cybele into a goddess of degenerative possession. Edwin Locke, a charming forty-year-old who has…	OL14958330W
When Alex was bad	Jo Davis	The first erotic novel from an author who's already turned up the heat with her acclaimed novels of romantic suspense.After fifteen years together, Alexander and Olivia Quinn have become strangers, b…	OL15069600W
The Awakening & Other Stories (Athenaise / At the 'cadian Ball / Awakening / Belle Zoraide / Desire…	Kate Chopin	Contains: [The Awakening][1] Wiser than a god. -- A point at issue! -- A shameful affair. -- Miss McEnders. -- At the 'Cadian Ball. -- [Desiree's Baby][2] Madame Celestin's divorce. -- A L…	OL16551541W
Kate Chopin	Kate Chopin	A precursor of the twentieth century's feminist authors, Kate Chopin (1850–1904) wrote short stories and novels for children and adults. The St. Louis native lived in New Orleans for a dozen years an…	OL17882776W
The Awakening and Other Stories [24 stories]	Pamela Knights,Kate Chopin	Contains: [The Awakening][1] Wiser than God -- A point at issue! -- The Christ light -- The maid of Saint Phillippe -- Doctor Chevalier's lie -- [Beyond the Bayou][2] Old aunt Peggy -- Rip…	OL19741715W
Almost a Crime	Penny Vincenzi	Octavia Fleming is the kind of fashionable, well-connected working mother who manages both to enrich her power marriage with social contacts and to return home intact to tuck in her school-age twins …	OL2467466W
The Awakening and Selected Stories	Kate Chopin	Contains: [THE AWAKENING](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL65430W) BAYOU FOLK A No-Account Creole In and Out of Old Natchitoches In Sabine A very Fine Fiddle [Beyond the Bayou](https://openlibr…	OL26125409W
The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives	Sarah Strohmeyer	After a whirlwind overseas romance, down-home girl Claire Stark has moved to her new husband’s hometown, Hunting Hills, Ohio, where the men earn seven figures, the women wear size two, and if everyth…	OL2673917W
Therese Raquin	Émile Zola	Thérèse Raquin [teʁɛz ʁakɛ̃] is an 1868 novel by French writer Émile Zola, first published in serial form in the literary magazine L'Artiste in 1867. It was Zola's third novel, though the first to ea…	OL3521623W
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of t…	OL455305W
Marry Me	John Updike	A deftly satirical portrait of life and love in a suburban town as only Updike can paint it. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias--both married to other people--pursue a love affair with one another over t…	OL463829W
As We Lay	Darlene Johnson	Breck's mind went to Boston and eased into Eric's office. She saw him sitting at his desk with his legs stretched out and crossed at the ankles....A killer smile stretched wide across his face, revea…	OL6033491W
The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (At the 'cadian Ball / Athénaïse / Awakening / …	Kate Chopin	Contains: [The Awakening][1] Wiser than a god. A point at issue! A shameful affair. Miss McEnders. At the 'Cadian Ball. [Désirée's Baby][2] Madame Celestin's divorce. A lady of Bayou St. J…	OL65429W
The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (At the 'Cadian Ball / Awakening / Beyond the Bay…	Kate Chopin	Contains: [The Awakening][1] [Beyond the Bayou][2] Ma'ame Pélagie [Désirée’s Baby][3] A respectable woman The kiss [A Pair of Silk Stockings][4] The locket A reflection At the 'Cadian ba…	OL65434W