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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Rise of Silas Lapham	William Dean Howells	The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu…	OL10415255W
Being there	Jerzy N. Kosinski	Being There is a satirical novel by the Polish born writer Jerzy Kosinski, first published in 1971. Set in America the story concerns Chance, a simple gardener who unwittingly becomes a much sought a…	OL10695414W
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
Birthright	Nora Roberts,Michel Ganstel	When five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adv…	OL111543W
The brass verdict	Michael Connelly	Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his…	OL111709W
Hoosier school-master	Edward Eggleston	Edward Eggleston (1837-1902) was born in Vevay, Indiana. He was both a novelist and a historian, authoring several texts of U.S. history.	OL1145619W
Green Light	Lloyd C. Douglas	*** Those who have read the book have much to say about this (and other) quality workings of Lloyd Douglas, so please be sure to check out ''community reviews'' at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/s…	OL12590W
Sapphira and the slave girl	Willa Cather	Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works.	OL12821W
Flowers in the Attic	V. C. Andrews	Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series. The novel is written in the first-person, from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger. …	OL134834W
Tales of Mystery and Imagination [29 stories]	Edgar Allan Poe	Tales of Mystery and Imagination, London: George Harrap and New York: Brentanos, 1919. (This famous and frequently copied collection features elaborate illustrations by Harry Clarke. The original edi…	OL13537898W
This War Called Love	Alejandro Murguía	From Mexico City to San Francisco's Mission District, nothing comes easy—in life or in love. Here is an unstereotypical view of a world as treacherous as it is tender, as hilarious as it is heartbrea…	OL13786226W
In my opinion	Orville Prescott	Certain aspects of modern thought reflected in novels.	OL138992W
Lanterns & lances	James Thurber	Contains 24 pieces in which the well-known humorist is largely concerned with the survival of our English language, currently being subjected to much erroneous use.	OL14857160W
The world according to Garp	John Irving	"A Henry Robbins book."	OL14858722W
The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli, Book 1)	Tess Gerritsen,Tess Gerritsen	If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. The terrifying first Jane Rizzoli bestseller.In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs…	OL14871640W
Witch & wizard	James Patterson,Gabrielle Charbonnet	Your books, music, and art - BANNED You are holding an urgent and vital narrative that reveals the forbidden truth about these perilous times... This is the astonishing testimonial of Wis…	OL14920182W
Poetry, Tales and Selected Essays [74 stories, 62 poems, 5 essays]	Edgar Allan Poe	Poetry. Tales and Sketches The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym The Journal of Julius Rodman . Eureka: A Prose Poem . Selected Essays. Chronology …	OL14938065W
Edgar Allan Poe	Edgar Allan Poe	STORIES [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Ligeia [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/work…	OL14938089W
The African-American Novel in the Age of Reaction	Charles Waddell Chesnutt	xx, 587 p. ; 18 cm	OL14950330W
Women on Women	Joan Nestle,Naomi Holoch	The 29 stories in the volume range from the daring and erotic "Eat" by Sapphire to Dorothy Allison's energetic Southern tale "A Lesbian Appetite" to Valerie Miner's suspenseful "Trespassing." Whether…	OL15065461W