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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Forever Amber	Kathleen Winsor	Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve …	OL100278W
English social history	George Macaulay Trevelyan	This is volume 3 of 4 volumes. I actually loathe Trevelyan but even so he does come in useful (not to say indispensible) at times	OL10439947W
Land law	L. B. Curzon	xxviii, 292 pages : 18 cm	OL10460024W
Mr Finchley discovers his England	Victor Canning	This is a whimsical episodic novel. Mr. Edgar Finchley, unmarried solicitor's clerk aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He books a hotel in Margate but, before he sets …	OL10536805W
Beatles	Mike Venezia	Tells the story of the world's most celebrated and influential rock group.	OL106275W
Anna of the Five Towns	Arnold Bennett,Frank Swinnerton	Set in the Potteries, the region in which Bennett spent much of his youth, this is the story of a miser's daughter who inherits a fortune. She stands out as a spirited, complex modern woman in a stif…	OL109233W
The hawk and the jewel	Lori Wick	Sunny (a vivacious girl) is ripped from her home and those she calls family. Now she must adjust to London life and having a real loving family. Will she be able to forgive those who have wronged her…	OL111083W
The lost Lennon interviews	Geoffrey Giuliano	vii, 261 p. : 24 cm	OL116542W
Dickens in his time	Ivor John Carnegie Brown	Discussion of the social and working conditions in England, with frequent reference to the characters and events in Dickens' novels.	OL1197442W
Customers and patrons of the mad-trade	Andrew T. Scull,Jonathan Andrews,Jonathan Andrews	"This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book ke…	OL12397343W
The Shell Seekers	Rosamunde Pilcher	The Shell Seekers is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The Shell Seekers is filled with real people--mothers…	OL134642W
Morwenna	Anne Goring	From back cover: "Morwenna...was just a girl when she first saw handsome, arrogant Maxwell Thurlow, mounted high on the rearing, plunging stallion that had murderously trampled her father. Morwenna..…	OL15146902W
The shooting in the shop	Simon Brett	301 p. ; 22 cm	OL15455692W
God save the Queen!	Dorothy Cannell	This is one of the best British cozies and should be a classic. The characters are wonderfully British and eccentric. Flora is charming,of course, but it seems unbelievable that a 17 year old girl h…	OL15830840W
I was a rat!	Philip Pullman	A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.	OL15837360W
Sophie's snail	Dick King-Smith,David Parkins	Follows the humorous adventures of four-year-old Sophie as she pursues her dream of becoming a farmer.	OL15964431W
Magicalamity	Kate Saunders,Paola Escobar	Eleven-year-old Tom is shocked to learn that he is a demisprite, half fairy and half mortal, and that he, aided by three fairy godmothers, must save his father, who is hiding in the fairy Realm, whil…	OL16342433W
The Isles	Norman Davies,Norman Davies	Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Isles is a revolutionary narrative history that takes a new perspective on the development of Britain and Ireland, l…	OL17035543W
Sherlock Holmes - The Patchwork Devil	Cavan Scott	London, 1919. While the world awaits the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Holmes and Watson are called to a singular mystery. A severed hand has been found on the banks of the Thames, a hand belo…	OL17198302W
How to Entice an Earl	Manda Collins	FLIRTING WITH DANGER Lady Madeline Essex is the last of the unwed "ducklings" in her family; and by far the most outspoken. But when she boldly enters London's most notorious gaming house in s…	OL17564257W