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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
High meadow	Joan Wolf	Life hasn't been easy for Kate Foley since her sister died seven years ago, leaving behind an infant son. But adopting and raising Ben with her widowed mother has brought joy, and with the family hor…	OL100049W
The Last Resort	Alison Lurie	Like a loyal Victorian wife, Jenny has devoted her life to her much older husband, the famous writer and naturalist Wilkie Walker, bringing up their children and researching and editing his best-sell…	OL102905W
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 blue bedspread	Raj Kamal Jha	In the middle of a steamy Calcutta night the phone rings. An unnamed man in a city of millions answers to a voice telling him that his long-lost sister is dead. He must go to the hospital to identify…	OL1049091W
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
Firefly beach	Luanne Rice	Under the summer sky, anything is possible....Author of the acclaimed novels Cloud Nine and Follow the Stars Home, Luanne Rice returns with another moving portrait of a family in crisis--as three sis…	OL106200W
A visitation of spirits	Randall Kenan	From Publishers Weekly As its title suggests, a powerful strain of mysticism runs through this story of personal awakening in a black North Carolina family, but first-time novelist Kenan has a rare …	OL109713W
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
Charmed	Nora Roberts	Boone Sawyer never expected to move next door to a woman who looked like one of the fairy princesses he often wrote about. Anastasia Donovan had a serene kind of femininity that would baffle and allu…	OL111495W
Our kid	Billy Hopkins	Billy Hopkins' OUR KID, the first of his novels based on his experiences growing up in Manchester, has delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. 'How wonderful to have a book like this...A glimpse …	OL11640852W
The adversaries	Jack Cavanaugh	Book 4, American Family Portrait series. Emotions erupt between the Morgan and Cooper families when the Morgan boys run slaves during a reunion with their Southern friends. As national tensions escal…	OL134188W
The Family Moskat	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Review in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/25/home/singer-moskat.html	OL1345096W
Unexpected blessings	Barbara Taylor Bradford	The new blockbuster from one of the world's greatest storytellers continues the legacy of A Woman of Substance.The great-grandaughters of Emma Harte, the heroine of A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE and EMMA'S SE…	OL14860327W
Man of the family	Kathleen Karr	During the 1920s, life for Istvan, the eldest child of a Hungarian-American family, holds both joy and sadness.	OL14912274W
Black Girl/White Girl	Joyce Carol Oates	Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died u…	OL14958451W
Whispers of Love	Rosie Harris	A compelling new saga set in Liverpool from the author of The Quality of Love.It is 1914 and Christabel Blakemore is happily preparing for her wedding when she receives the shattering news that her f…	OL14987882W
Homecoming	Belva Plain	Three weeks after an elderly woman sends letters to her troubled relatives, two estranged and hostile brothers, a young couple on the verge of divorce, and a loving couple whose parents despise one a…	OL15142200W
Post-Birthday World	Lionel Shriver	In this eagerly awaited new novel, Lionel Shriver, the Orange Prize-winning author of the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, delivers an imaginative and entertaining look at the im…	OL15149509W
The Flight	Bryan Malessa	A powerful novel set at the end of World War II about one woman and her family's struggle for survival.The thrust of this epic novel occurs in the spring of 1945, during an event known in Germany as …	OL15188878W
Golden country	Jennifer Gilmore	Spanning the first half of the twentieth century, Golden Country brings to life the intertwining stories of three Jewish immigrants seeking their fortunes--the handsome and ambitious Seymour, a sales…	OL15830856W