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	Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
	A thing of beauty	Casey Claybourne	Belinda Croft had never been accepted into high society — having sacrificed fashion and frivolity for science and education. When Sissy, her birdbrained cousin, appears before the first big ball of t…	OL1000075W
	Dangerous gifts	Haywood Smith	3.62 · Rating details · 37 ratings · 2 reviews Palmer Freeman returns from the Crusades broken in body and spirit. What he finds at home is a wife he never knew existed named Claire w…	OL1000091W
	David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rooke…	OL10322056W
	The Grafton girls	Annie Groves	The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. A unique bond is formed as the hostilities take…	OL10373W
	Reel murder	Marian Babson	When Trixie Dolan accompanies her friend and rival Evangeline Sinclair to London, she's hoping they'll have a good time. Then a dead body turns up, followed by another one, and the police are suspect…	OL103869W
	The fledgling	Elizabeth Cadell	Vitorina's escort from Lisbon to London wore a cloak of respectability which convinced the child's father and aunts, but even before the ten-year-old girl had made her disconcerting discovery of his …	OL104218W
	The beasts of Clawstone Castle	Eva Ibbotson	Can two children foil an outrageous criminal plot with the help of some of the funniest and maddest ghosts ever invented? Clawstone Castle is ancient and famous, but its elderly owners have no money.…	OL104401W
	The great ghost rescue	Eva Ibbotson	The ghosts of Britain need a sanctuary. Castles with central heating, bogs drained for motorways, dismal forests cleared for car parks-there are few places left for a respectable ghost to haunt. Hump…	OL104418W
	A bone and a hank of hair	Leo Bruce	Gentleman Detective Carolus Deene is called to investigate the disappearance of Mrs. Rathbone, and perhaps the second Mrs. Rathbone, and the third. With little more than the title clues to aid him, D…	OL10507990W
	Jack on the gallows tree	Leo Bruce	Within the space of an hour or two the dead bodies of two elderly ladies, Miss Sophia Carew and Mrs. Westmacott, were discovered in the vicinity of the town of Buddington-on-the-Hill; both women had …	OL10508000W
	Brighton rock	Graham Greene	An atmospheric crime thriller featuring a teenage sociopath intent on becoming the underworld boss of Brighton. Having murdered a man who had betrayed his gang the young gangster Pinky Brown tries to…	OL106083W
	Corridors of guilt	John Buxton Hilton	Asked to speak at a conference on the topic of riot control, Inspector Kenworthy of Scotland Yard grows utterly perplexed when an obscure government agency is linked to a crime involving a gang of fo…	OL10677577W
	I Am Morgan Le Fay	Nancy Springer	Once there was a girl named Morgan, a girl of magic! She saw her father slain and her mother stolen by a king named Pendragon. But the king was not long to live, and now with an entire country at war…	OL108832W
	Shirley	Charlotte Brontë	<p><i>Shirley</i>, published in 1849, was <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charlotte-bronte">Charlotte Brontë’s</a> second novel after <i><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charlott…	OL1095397W
	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
	Mr. Scarborough's Family	Anthony Trollope	It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they…	OL109858W
	Ayala's angel	Anthony Trollope	Ayala's Angel showcases Trollope's great theme: the ways in which the conflicts between money and affection shape the dance of courtship and marriage among the gentry and middle class in Victorian En…	OL109862W
$Sylvia\'s Lovers Complete$	Sylvia\'s Lovers Complete	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	A powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, Sylvia's Lovers is set in the 1790s in an English seaside town. England is at war with France, and…	OL1103152W
	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 Perfect Poison	Jayne Ann Krentz	Plagued by rumours that she poisoned her fiance, Lucinda Bromley manages to live on the fringes of polite society, tending her beloved plants - and occasionally consulting on a murder investigation. …	OL112317W