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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
The Whipping Boy	Sid Fleischman	*A shout comes echoing up the stairway. "Fetch the whipping boy!"* A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep. "Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What's the prince done…	OL114726W
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
A Stranger in the Mirror	Sidney Sheldon	*Toby Temple is a superstar, the world's funniest man.* He gets any woman that he wants, but under the superstar image is a lonely man. *Jill Castle is a sensuous starlet.* She has a dark and…	OL15153140W
Windmills of the Gods	Sidney Sheldon	She's on the glinting edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become our newest ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, a woman who is about to dramatica…	OL15156421W
Smiley's People	John le Carré	*John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage* with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, …	OL15723133W
Little men	Louisa May Alcott,John Matteson,Reginald Birch,Reginald Bathurst 1856-1943 Birch,Reginald Bathurst Birch,Jan Oliveira,J. T. Barbarese,Ricardo Abraham,Alfredo Ricardo Abraham,Reginald B. Birch	The characters from Little Women grow up and begin new adventures at Plumfield, a progressive school founded by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husb…	OL17761452W
Happy Are the Peacemakers	Andrew M. Greeley	***Father Greeley's fictional detective, the Most Reverend John Blackwood Ryan, auxiliary bishop of Chicago and amateur sleuth par excellence, becomes involved in another mystery with both theologica…	OL17890W
Dirty Feet	Steven Kroll	Grades 1-2 Penelope removes her too-tight sneakers on the way to school, thereby setting the stage for a series of disastrous encounters between her feet and a variety of messy substances.	OL1879698W
the Vanishing Coin	Kate Egan	Mike Lane reluctantly bonds with good-girl neighbor Nora while learning fun skills at The White Rabbit magic shop, the owner of which believes Mike could become a great magician. Mike feels as tho…	OL19977073W
Temptations of a Wallflower	Eva Leigh	*Eva Leigh's deliciously sexy Wicked Quills of London series continues as a Lady's secret career writing erotic fiction is jeopardized by real-life romance . . .--FictionDB* **"In society circ…	OL20025708W
Snack Attack! (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2)	Natalie Shaw	Retelling of TM & © 2013 Sony Pictures Animation Inc. Movie. ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.'' Read the original book by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett Everyone in Swallow Falls is celebra…	OL20607656W
Over at the Rink	Stella Partheniou Grasso	Count all the ways to have fun at the hockey rink! Over at the rink Where the anthem's sung, The whole town gathered For some hockey fun. Set to the catchy rhythm of the traditional counting song "Ov…	OL20641954W
Memories of the Thirties	Clarence A. Boon	*The Author wrote this book in hopes that the younger generation might read it, to show them what it was like for the working men in the thirties.* Wayne Thomas happened to settle in a fairly goo…	OL20733276W
Bachelor Jim's Family	Clarence A. Boon	*Bachelor Jim's Family ...is the continuation of the book BACHELOR JIM. It tells about Jim's family, and where and how they lived.* Raising a family of three girls and a boy, was no easy task at …	OL20733323W
Overload	Arthur Hailey	In the middle of a sweltering July heat wave that has no end in sight, California’s Golden State Power and Light is on overload. An emergency brownout is already in effect. Then, GSP&L’s newest and l…	OL2475094W
The Secret Pilgrim	John le Carré	The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies now yield to glasnost and perestroika. The killing shadows of the Cold War are flooded with light. The future is unfathomable. …	OL29767W
The Harvester	Gene Stratton-Porter	Author of ''A Girl of the Limberlost,'' Freckles, etc. ***The Harvester (1911) by Gene Stratton Porter is the story of a Thoreau-esque idealist and naturalist and his search for the love of his dr…	OL42383W
Except for me and thee	Jessamyn West	*These further adventures of Jess and Eliza Birdwell, the beloved hero and heroine of ''The Friendly Persuasion,''* are cause for celebration to the millions who have met them in Jessamyn West's me…	OL4616538W
The Bastard	Lyle Kenyon Engel,John Jakes	*“Phillipe Charboneau—the bastard. Illegitimate son of an English nobleman,* Phillipe flees Europe and, as Philip Kent, joins the turbulent adventure that was the beginning of the American Experi…	OL56114W