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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A Shine of Rainbows	Lillian Beckwith	*Mairi and Sandy live on a lonely Hebridean island, content with each other, despite their lack of children.* When Mairi brings home Thomas, a child from the orphanage, Sandy is jealous of Mai…	OL10591088W
White Banners	Lloyd C. Douglas	A heartening story of a domestic servant who molded wisely the lives of her employers and their children, knowing that service, whether as servant or king, is a noble destiny. **Lloyd Cassel D…	OL12589W
Came a Cavalier	Frances Parkinson Keyes	Came a Cavalier is the story of Constance Galt, a beautiful girl who has great qualities of loyalty and loving-kindness, but whose outlook has been limited by a legacy of poverty and intolerance an…	OL15135226W
The Man from St. Petersburg	Ken Follett	Feliks came to London to commit a murder that would change history. He had many weapons at his command, but his most dangerous were the love of a innocent woman, and the passion of a lady demanding s…	OL15649851W
Mr. Lincoln's Wife Anne Colver	Anne Colver	“Here is a fresh telling of the story of 'the most maligned woman in American history.' Here is a memorable portrait of the proud, paradoxical woman who was one of our most fascinating First Ladies.”…	OL161204W
The Woman Who Couldn't Scream	Christina Dodd	**A beautiful, mute woman returns to Virtue Falls, Washington, to exact revenge on a deadly enemy in The Woman Who Couldn't Scream, a mesmerizing, emotional thriller from bestselling author Christina…	OL19726434W
How Green Was My Valley	Richard Llewellyn	This is a story set in a south Wales coal mining valley and tells of a family striving to improve their lives through hard work, education and their non-conformist faith. The main character is th…	OL2647269W
Landfall, a channel story	Rob Spence,Nevil Shute	*Against the grim background of England at war, the romance of Jery Chambers and Mona Stevens stands out like an unexpected spring day in the midst of a brutal winter.* Jerry is a flying officer …	OL2779743W
Noodle	Munro Leaf	The landmark collaboration of two of children's books most beloved talents, Ludwig Bemelmans and Munro Leaf, available again! *The story of Noodle, brought to you by the creator of Ferdinand, Mu…	OL4649310W
Death on the Ice	Cassie Brown,Harold Andrew Horwood	*Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman sailed out 'to the ice' to hunt seals in the hope of a few pennies in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John's.* The ye…	OL5171212W
Gentian Hill	Elizabeth Goudge	Novel set in England at the time of Napoleonic Wars. They met as children... Unable to bear the prospect of life at sea, young Anthony O'Connell deserts his ship at Torquay and escapes into the Devon…	OL535191W
The River of Diamonds	Geoffrey Jenkins	*The wind struck another hammer-blow. The whaler wheeled away stern-on, and then came up with a sickening thump forward. "One anchor cable gone!" Minnaar shouted above the roar of the wind. "The…	OL5414714W
Lobo, Rag, and Vixen and pictures	Ernest Thompson Seton	*Ernest Thompson Seton was an instrumental figure in the establishment of the Boy Scouts, but he also wrote stories about the frontier and Westerns that continue to be read today.* These stori…	OL549985W
Convention, M.D.	Frank G. Slaughter	*''The scorching best seller of medical intrigue and sexual blackmail by the author of CODE FIVE''--fr. cvr.* When members of the Central Medical Association gather to elect a new president, t…	OL99227W
The mapmaker	Frank G. Slaughter	*I am by no means the first to be convinced that no sharp line can be drawn separating fiction from history. The Mapmaker is a novel, ant yet real history is an integral part of every page.* Andr…	OL99251W