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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Life is what you make it	Peter Buffett	From composer, musician, and philanthropist Peter Buffett comes a warm, wise, and inspirational book that asks, Which will you choose: the path of least resistance or the path of potentially greatest…	OL13847462W
Worst Case	James Patterson,Michael Ledwidge	Best case: survivalThe son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. His parents can't save him, because this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he …	OL14920173W
Assassins of Athens	Jeffrey Siger	When the body of a boy from one of Greece's most prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens' worst neighbourhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is certain there's a message in the m…	OL15324201W
Sun lover	Sondra Stanford	Vicki had left Alex once because he insisted on treating her as a possession, not a woman with a mind of her own. But she had never really stopped loving him. Thrown together again, their passions…	OL15393095W
Little Darlings	Jacqueline Wilson	Sunset lives a life of luxury with her beautiful ex-model mum, a world-famous ex-rocker dad and two little celeb siblings. But life on the red carpet is no compensation for rowing parents, constant n…	OL15653091W
The narcissist's daughter	Craig Holden	Fantasizing about the downfall of the Kesslers, his well-to-do boss's family, streetwise pre-med student Syd Redding meets the family daughter and quickly becomes embroiled within the Kessler dysfunc…	OL15844236W
City of Girls: A Novel	Elizabeth Gilbert,Elizabeth Gilbert	In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aun…	OL19756861W
Adored	Cecily von Ziegesar	Jenny Humphrey's time at Waverly Academy has had its ups and downs, from making enemies of the most popular girl at school to stealing her room mate's boyfriend. But now everything has changed; Jenny…	OL24160662W
Happy campers	David E. Shaolian	Secluded at camp in the wilderness, surrounded by others solely concerned with satisfying hedonistic desires, at a locale where anything can happen at any moment, which will ultimately prevail: sanit…	OL24160900W
Gossip Girl, The Carlyles	Cecily von Ziegesar,Annabelle Vestry	Triplets Avery, Baby, and Owen Carlyle have different approaches to their new life in a Manhattan penthouse and elite private schools, but soon each has cause to want to return to their home on Nantu…	OL24253234W
Notorious	Cecily von Ziegesar	Jenny Humphrey has left her Manhattan school to attend elite Waverly Academy in New York horse country where glamorous rich kids don't let the rules get in the way of an excellent time. She will do a…	OL24289138W
Gossip Girl, The Carlyles	Cecily von Ziegesar,Annabelle Vestry	The social hierarchy of the Upper East Side has seen some dramatic changes since the Carlyle triplets hit town.	OL24301644W
Washington Square	Henry James	With a new afterword by Michael CunninghamWhat Catherine Sloper lacks in brains and beauty, she makes up for by being "very good." The handsome Morris Townsend would do anything to win her hand-even …	OL276395W
The Children's Book	A. S. Byatt	Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize--winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I year…	OL447886W
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.In the moments of uph…	OL457162W
The world's room	Todd London	"When Willy and Lorna Hofmann's seventeen-year-old son, Erich, commits suicide in 1969, his younger brother asks to be called by the dead boy's name. Already deeply affected by more than two years of…	OL4983765W
Cross My Heart	Carly Phillips	Lacey Kincaid is a classic New York success story. As the owner of Odd Jobs, she's gone from rags to riches…sort of. Because Lacey's harboring a secret: she was born Lillian Dumont, and spent her chi…	OL5682913W
How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls	Zoey Dean	Recent Yale graduate Megan Smith comes to Manhattan with big plans for a career in journalism and even bigger student loan debt: $75,000. When she flails at her trashy tabloid job, she's given an esc…	OL5708687W
The Cup of the World	Dickinson, John	FILLED WITH IMMENSE characters, this thrilling medieval fantasy filled with moral complexity and vision announces the arrival of a special new writing talent.Phaedra, the beautiful daughter of a baro…	OL5712578W
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all…	OL66534W