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	Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
	White-Jacket	Herman Melville	In the year 1843 I shipped as Ordinary seaman on board of a United States frigate, then lying in a harbour of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for more than a year, I was disc…	OL102744W
	The Rise of Silas Lapham	William Dean Howells	The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu…	OL10415255W
	The Glass Palace	Amitav Ghosh	Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create …	OL1054090W
	The Pilgrim's Progress	John Bunyan	Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley …	OL107195W
	Destiny of fire	Zoé Oldenbourg	Poor compared to previous 2 magnificent novels. This very much reads as an intense piece of juvenilia ,albeit so well researched.	OL10768W
	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
	La Vendee	Anthony Trollope	The history of France in 1792 has been too fully written, and too generally read to leave the novelist any excuse for describing the state of Paris at the close of the summer of that year. It is know…	OL109789W
	Rachel Ray	Anthony Trollope	"Rachel Ray is an 1863 novel by Anthony Trollope. It recounts the story of a young woman who is forced to give up her fiancé because of baseless suspicions directed toward him by the members of her c…	OL109861W
	The way we live now	Anthony Trollope	From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition): *“The Way We Live Now” (1875) is as much a portrait of the last few decades as it is of the high Victorian age, and…	OL109871W
$Sylvia\'s Lovers Complete$	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 monsters of St. Helena	Brooks Hansen	"Brooks Hansen's new novel is the story of Napoleon Bonaparte's last exile, in 1815, on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic, "the place on earth farthest from any other place." The island is pop…	OL112072W
	Perlman's ordeal	Brooks Hansen	Als een in Londen werkende Oostenrijkse arts in 1906 een patiënte met een persoonlijkheidsstoornis te behandelen krijgt, raakt hij met een spiritiste verwikkeld in een strijd om de geest van het kind.	OL112073W
	A Personal Devil:(Magdalene La Batarde #2)	Roberta Gellis	When Sabina, the blind mistress of the Old Priory Guesthouse, accepts the offer of Master Mainard to live exclusively with him, everyone expects that Mainard's wife, Bertrild, would be glad to be rid…	OL112303W
	Beijing coma	Jian Ma	Dai Wei lies in a coma after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier. As the minute-by-minute chronicling of the lead-up to his shooting becomes even more intense, t…	OL11240388W
	Vargr-moon	Bernard King	Synopsis - His King had sent for him. He had long avoided the court and its men of power, for power, he had seen, drove men mad. But now he, fated slayer of Starkadder, was commanded to attend. Oth…	OL11370052W
	The Lorimer Legacy	Anne Melville	Volume Two of the dramatic saga of the Lorimer Family A Legacy may be of great value and still bring bad luck... Although Margaret Lorimer has made her own way as a doctor, she does not at all app…	OL11374379W
	King Coal	Upton Sinclair	King Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single …	OL115067W
	Locke 1928	Shawna Yang Ryan	A mesmerizing story of a community of Chinese immigrants in a small California town in 1928, weaving history and mythology around the lives of the townspeople and the ghosts who haunt themLocke, CA, …	OL11989744W
	Hand of Isis	Jo Graham	Following her acclaimed debut, Jo Graham returns to the ancient world with a novel that will captivate lovers of fantasy, history and romance. Set in Ancient Egypt, Hand of Isis is the story of Charm…	OL12006897W
	Brethren	Robyn Young	A detailed, epic historical adventure set in Paris, London, Egypt, and Palestine on the eve of the last Crusade, Brethren tells the story of a young knight's search for a mysterious (and potentially …	OL12083558W