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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Barchester Towers Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope *The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 2: Barchester Towers* Written as a sequel to "The Warden", this is the second book of the Barsetshire novels. Described as humorous, this wonderful novel that… OL109724W
The Last Chronicle of Barset The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope *The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 6: The Last Chronicle of Barset* OL109876W
The legacy of Cain The legacy of Cain Wilkie Collins At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English … OL176076W
The Reaper The Reaper Peter Lovesey "Otis Joy is the popular and handsome young rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in Foxford, Wiltshire, England. Soon after a pastoral visit to him by the bishop, the bishop's body is found lying at th… OL40363W
Behave yourself, Bethany Brant Behave yourself, Bethany Brant Patricia Beatty A preacher's daughter with lots of curiosity and a penchant for getting into trouble has an eventful year and a half, as all the predictions of a fortune-teller at a Texas county fair in 1898 come tr… OL4090611W
The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of t… OL455305W
Blood Ties Blood Ties Ralph M. McInerny Henry Dolan's granddaughter, Martha Lynch, adopted 23 years earlier, wants to find her birth parents. Her adopted parents are frantic over the idea of losing her, so Henry seeks out Father Dowling fo… OL57281W
Abracadaver Abracadaver Ralph M. McInerny <I> Abracadaver</I> begins with a magic show at the St. Hilary’s parish center on a peaceful winter’s night in Fox River, Illinois. A ring inscribed “To FG from AG. Con amore” is used in a trick, but… OL57323W
Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday Ralph M. McInerny Father Dowling has been serving as parish priest and resident sleuth at St. Hilary’s for a while now, but he’s no lifer, and there’s plenty that he doesn’t know about the old guard. So when a strange… OL57324W
A Loss of Patients A Loss of Patients Ralph M. McInerny Phil Keegan and the Fox River, IL police department are bewildered by a series of unexplained deaths. Two attractive women, friends, are found dead, about a month apart: the first, in her bathtub wit… OL57329W
Second Vespers Second Vespers Ralph M. McInerny Francis O'Rourke, noted American author, is more alive dead than he ever was when alive. He was born and grew up in Fox River, a town now seething with big O’Rourkian business. Collectors, scholars, … OL57332W