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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A Shine of Rainbows	Lillian Beckwith	*Mairi and Sandy live on a lonely Hebridean island, content with each other, despite their lack of children.* When Mairi brings home Thomas, a child from the orphanage, Sandy is jealous of Mai…	OL10591088W
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
When the Bough Breaks	Jonathan Kellerman	In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when …	OL12723W
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories [8 stories]	Agatha Christie	*A collection of Miss Marple mysteries, plus some bonus short stories...*First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound...then, the riddle of a dead man's buried treasure...the curious …	OL260390W
The Book of Ruth	Jane Hamilton,Jane Hamilton	"I learned slowly, that if you don't look at the world with perfect vision, you're bound to get yourself cooked." Having come within an inch of her life, Ruth Dahl is determined to take a good look a…	OL2705556W
Before We Were Trans	Kit Heyam	A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity  Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of mal…	OL27417587W
Landfall, a channel story	Rob Spence,Nevil Shute	*Against the grim background of England at war, the romance of Jery Chambers and Mona Stevens stands out like an unexpected spring day in the midst of a brutal winter.* Jerry is a flying officer …	OL2779743W
The Body in the Library	Agatha Christie	The very-respectable Colonel and Mrs Bantry have awakened to discover the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cold …	OL471610W
A Caribbean Mystery	Agatha Christie	As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her intere…	OL472458W
Plough the Sea	Robert Wilder	"The bold and powerful novel of an island in the sun, the man who ruled it, and the woman who loved him."	OL5851620W
Joy in the Morning	Betty Smith	*In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love.* Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry hi…	OL78356W
Never Love a Stranger	Harold Robbins	Harold Robbins' very first novel is also one of his most powerful. Never Love a Stranger tells the gritty and passionate tale of Francis "Frankie" Kane, from his meager beginnings as an orphan in…	OL8045876W
Lorena	Frank G. Slaughter	TORN BY CONFLICTING LOYALTIES, LINKED BY PASSIONATE LOVE The Civil War had separated beautiful, willful Lorena Selby from her husband. He had gone to fight the Yankees, while she stayed be…	OL99250W
Sword and Scalpel	Frank G. Slaughter	*ABOUT AUTHOR: Frank Gill Slaughter , pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies.* His novels drew on h…	OL99269W
The Stubborn Heart	Frank G. Slaughter	Confederate surgeon turns plantation house into hospital.	OL99272W