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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
20 Years at Hull House	Jane Addams	Jane Addams's narrative of life in an immigrant urban neighborhood provides students with an introduction to the issues of the Progressive era and the tenets of social activism. This new teaching edi…	OL1106688W
Time and again	Nora Roberts	Time Was Cal Hornblower is flying his ship when he has an accident. He wakes up in a remote Oregon cabin, rescued by Libby Stone. But something is drastically wrong. His environment is different, …	OL111537W
Velocity	Aloysius G. Casey	"This storyline addresses the only question mark on O'Malley's career -- the Lavelle raids of February 1972. Using appropriate Nixon White House audio recordings and top secret messages (sent by the …	OL11870079W
White Banners	Lloyd C. Douglas	A heartening story of a domestic servant who molded wisely the lives of her employers and their children, knowing that service, whether as servant or king, is a noble destiny. **Lloyd Cassel D…	OL12589W
Came a Cavalier	Frances Parkinson Keyes	Came a Cavalier is the story of Constance Galt, a beautiful girl who has great qualities of loyalty and loving-kindness, but whose outlook has been limited by a legacy of poverty and intolerance an…	OL15135226W
Ice Station	Matthew Reilly	At a remote US ice station in Antarctica, a team of scientists has made an amazing discovery. They have found something unbelievable buried deep below the surface, trapped inside a layer of ice 400 m…	OL15157288W
The Pocket Essential F. Scott Fitzgerald	Richard Shephard	F Scott Fitzgerald is widely praised as the finest and most celebrated novelist of twentieth century America. His reputation is infinitely more lustrous since his untimely death than it was for much …	OL15172335W
CliffsCompleteTM The Awakening	Sheri Metzger	A minor masterpiece, The Awakening was a scandalous book when it arrived from the turn-of-the-century presses. With a heroine who found her husband dull, married life dreary and confining, and mother…	OL15184170W
Papa Was a Preacher	Alyene Porter	The life of a preacher and his family from his child's point of view. ''..abounding with goodness of spirit and humor..''--New York Times ***Eight lively children running in and about the par…	OL15391560W
4 Ingredients	Kim McCosker	Contains 340 quick, easy and very delicious recipes to whip up and 'wow' your friends and family, all with four or less ingredients. All the equipment you'll need for these recipes is 1 cup, 1 teaspo…	OL15692485W
The scarlet letter	Nina Baym	Analyzes the plot, setting, characters, themes, and symbolism in Hawthorne's novel, and discusses the purpose of its "Custom-house" portion.	OL15839687W
Bringing Light to Twilight	Giselle Liza Anatol	"Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series has met with astonishing commercial success--not just amongst adolescent girls, but with college students, middle-aged women, and writers and publishers who hope to…	OL15999032W
The Routledge concise history of Canadian literature	Lane, Richard J.	"<EM>The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature</EM> introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts. In this clear and structured volu…	OL16125923W
Enduring Courage	John F. Ross	From the Introduction... Rickenbacker lived at a time when the latest machines of the industrial revolutions were ripping apart the ages-old rhythms of plow and steam. When he was seven, the first…	OL17322120W
Knowing the enemy	Richard A. Mobley	"Covers the Navy intelligence establishment's support to the war effort in Southeast Asia from 1965 to 1975. It describes the contribution of naval intelligence to key strategic, operational, and tac…	OL17340283W
Off the Grid	C. J. Box	There's no hiding off the grid. Joe Pickett's old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, lying low while the FBI search for him. But they're not the only ones looking. Nate finds himself confront…	OL17359877W
The 5th Inning	E. Ethelbert Miller	Summary:The 5th Inning is poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller's second memoir. Coming a decade after Fathering words: the making of an African American writer, this book finds Miller retur…	OL17397297W
Amy Ernst	Steve Lucas	Illustrated full color catalog of American contemporary artist Amy Ernst's artwork for the 2017 two-person exhibition entitled Amy Ernst/Amy Ragus: The Third Entity, held at the Art Center Sarasota…	OL17716401W
Queer threads	John Chaich,Todd Oldham	"Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community" spotlights an international, intergenerational, intersectional mix of thirty artists who are remixing fiber craft traditions, such as crochet, embroid…	OL17856767W
Spain in our hearts	Adam Hochschild,Adam Hochschild	For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist u…	OL17863771W