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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The ambassador	Henry James	An American ambassador in Vietnam faces a moral and political crisis when he is placed in the position of having to decide the fate of the country and the life or death of its rulers.	OL10424520W
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s…	OL1095427W
This must be the place	Anna Winger	Walter Baum has one of the most famous voices in Germany, if no longer a famous face. A former television star, he's been dubbing Tom Cruise's lines into German for fifteen years, since he returned f…	OL11914246W
Haunting beauty	Erin Quinn	Danni always believed she was an abandoned child. Then the seductive Sean Ballogh appears out of nowhere with a startling story challenging everything Danni thought was true. He claims that Danni’s f…	OL13780197W
If you follow me	Malena Watrous	Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can n…	OL13782083W
Short Stories (Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans / Adventure of the Cardboard Box / Adventure…	Arthur Conan Doyle	Contains: [Red-Headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930336W/The_Red-Headed_League) Adventure of the Cardboard Box Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans [Adventure of the Dancing Men…	OL14929949W
Mr. Darcy broke my heart	Beth Pattillo	American Claire Prescott doesn't really understand Mr Darcy's appeal. But when she agrees to stand in for her sister at a Jane Austen seminar in Oxford, she finds herself holding a lost version of Pr…	OL15022526W
Through thick & thin	Sandra Byrd	Fifteen-year-old Savvy Smith, an American living near London, sees her chance to write a full column for her school newspaper, and must rely on her Christian faith when she is forced to choose betwee…	OL15109109W
Sherlock Holmes (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Bow / Memo…	Arthur Conan Doyle	- [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia) [Re…	OL1518262W
Darcy Cousins	Monica Fairview	One might reasonably expect that a young lady dispatched in disgrace across the Atlantic to England would strive to behave with decorum, but Mr. Darcy's incorrigible American cousin, Clarissa Darcy, …	OL15190217W
The bread of angels	Stephanie Saldana	A romantic memoir of a young woman's year in Damascus. In 2004, 27-year-old Stephanie Saldaña traveled to Syria on a Fulbright fellowship to study the role of the prophet Jesus in Islam. She was also…	OL15408612W
A Wallflower Christmas	Lisa Kleypas	Lisa Kleypas (Wallflowers #5) The Wallflowers are four young ladies in London who banded together in their wild and wickedly wonderful searches for true love. Now happily married, they join tog…	OL15588214W
La perdida	Jessica Abel	Carla Olivares, a young Mexican-American woman, goes to Mexico to "find herself," and moves in which an old fling, but when his circle of Anglo expat friends fail to provide her with the authentic ex…	OL15758371W
The desert contract	John Lathrop	Steve Kemp, investment counselor, trying to rebuild his finances and restore his integrity, and steer clear of politics, returns after a decade to the Arabian Gulf. Reconnected by chance with his old…	OL15835751W
Jungle nurse	Arthur Catherall	What girl would refuse a chance to go up-country to see a teakwallah’s camp in colorful Burma? With their homeward-bound liner delayed in Rangoon harbor Jill Ormond and her French friend Marcelle Du…	OL15847241W
Crossbones	Nuruddin Farah	"A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books) A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old f…	OL15947486W
Guilty wives	James Patterson,David Ellis,David Ellis	"No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever b…	OL15980916W
Dreaming in Chinese	Deborah Fallows	Fallows unravels Chinese culture by explaining the intricacies and subtleties of Mandarin, devoting each chapter to a particular linguistic quirk.	OL16087030W
An African affair	Nina Darnton	After the assassination of a prominent Nigerian politician, New York journalist Lindsay Cameron moves to Lagos to follow a trail of corruption, drug smuggling, and murder. What begins with the most c…	OL16116538W
Where the shadows lie	Michael Ridpath	On loan to the Icelandic Police Force, former Boston detective Magnus Jonson is forced to confront difficult truths about his father's murder while investigating rumors about a priceless ancient manu…	OL16126056W