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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s…	OL1095427W
A reliable wife	Robert Goolrick	A widower advertises for "a reliable wife" and he chooses Catherine. To her surprise, Catherine learns to love Ralph and must, as a result, abandon the remaining traces of her former life and cope wi…	OL13654113W
The walking people	Mary Beth Keane	Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that i…	OL13691676W
Annie's Ghosts	Steve Luxenberg	Beth Luxenberg was an only child. Everyone knew it: her grown children, her friends, even people she’d only recently met. So when her secret emerged, her son Steve Luxenberg was bewildered. He was ce…	OL13759939W
Crossers	Philip Caputo	From the acclaimed author of Acts of Faith ("A miracle . . . You can hardly conceive of a more affecting reading experience"--Houston Chronicle), a blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty…	OL14924859W
The Red Pyramid	Rick Riordan	Since their mother’s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Eg…	OL15183119W
Faith's reward	Tammy Barley	"As Jake and Jessica Bennett eagerly anticipate the birth of their first child, their faith in God and in each other is tested by such trials as a life-threatening illness, a conspiracy that puts Jes…	OL15414721W
A secret kept	Tatiana de Rosnay	Very interesting book. Holds your attention on the order of Gone Girl. You have to get to the very end to get the answer to the secret.	OL15603282W
Long Gone	Alafair Burke	Echoing the intensity of Harlan Coben’s Tell No One and the psychological depth of Laura Lippman’s What the Dead Know, Alafair Burke’s first stand-alone novel catapults her into the top ranks of mode…	OL15816164W
Shanghai girls	Lisa See	Two sisters leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles in this fresh, fascinating adventure.	OL15839821W
A heart most worthy	Siri L. Mitchell	The elegance of Madame Fortier’s gown shop is a far cry from the downtrodden North End of Boston. Yet each day Julietta, Annamaria, and Luciana enter the world of the upper class, working on finery f…	OL15917446W
Bijou Roy	Ronica Dhar	Traveling to India to scatter her late father's ashes, a grieving Bijou abandons her life in Washington, D.C., to pursue the truth about why her parents severed their ties to their native culture, an…	OL15973854W
The Sins of Lord Easterbrook	Madeline Hunter	Only a desperate mission could bring Leona Montgomery face-to-face with the scoundrel whose dangerous sensuality once sent her fleeing from his arms. But she has under-estimated Christian, Marquess o…	OL15978643W
Heat wave	Nancy Thayer	After her husband's sudden death from a heart attack, Carley finds herself in a difficult financial situation and decides to turn their historic Nantucket house into a bed-and-breakfast, but events d…	OL15988905W
Matrimony and murder	Lois Lamanna	215 p. ; 20 cm	OL16002450W
When a crocodile eats the sun	Peter Godwin	After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on h…	OL16027174W
The Best of Evil	Eric Wilson	"Spare your soul," he ranted, "and turn your eyes from greed...." The tattoos on his arms still reading "Live by the Sword" and "Die by the Sword," Aramis Black is ready for a fresh start. Determi…	OL16068197W
Abiding love	Kate Welsh	A man from her past . . . A young boy's future. Guidance counselor Alexandra Lexington found strength in prayer as she healed from an abusive relationship. And when she encountered the troubled s…	OL16071227W
Before ever after	Samantha Sotto	Three years after her husband Max's death, Paolo, an Italian editor of American coffee table books, shows Shelley some childhood photos. Paolo tells her that the man in the photos, the bearded man wh…	OL16167020W
A wish and a prayer	Jayne Ann Krentz	"Anyone worried that life in a small town could get boring certainly hasn't lived in Henry Adams: With a pig on trial, the town's foster children still trying to find their place, and new love blosso…	OL16176224W