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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
If Tomorrow Comes	Sidney Sheldon	*She's Tracy Whitney. Sidney Sheldon's most exciting heroine ever.* Lovely, idealistic, she's soon to enter into a dazzling world of sumptuous wealth, audacious exploits, and narrow escapes--***a…	OL10640705W
Evergreen	Belva Plain	8 Months on the N.Y. Times Best-Seller List. The Best-Loved Best-Seller of the Year: A young Polish immigrant woman, in love with the scion of the German-Jewish banking family for which she work…	OL10672947W
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
Heidi	Johanna Spyri	*The famous Swiss classic about Heidi, a five-year-old orphan girl* who goes to live with her grandfather, and his goats, in an alm (Alpine pasture)...up the Alps. **One of the most loved classic…	OL1455042W
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
Invitation to Live	Lloyd C. Douglas	The power of love ... even that coming from the grave .. *Barbara* has too much money and no friends. *Sally* is abrasive and opportunistic, and a gifted mimic. Lee is a frustrated artis…	OL15143507W
Helen Carey	Martha Trent	The story of the many and exciting adventures of a girl, brought up on a western ranch. Helen (nicknamed "Missy") Carey is a girl who does things, including the rescue of one of her father's helpers …	OL17665927W
Happy Are the Peacemakers	Andrew M. Greeley	***Father Greeley's fictional detective, the Most Reverend John Blackwood Ryan, auxiliary bishop of Chicago and amateur sleuth par excellence, becomes involved in another mystery with both theologica…	OL17890W
The Naive and Sentimental Lover	John le Carré	*John le Carre's "The Naive and Sentimental Lover" offers a dark and ribald send-up of both middle-class and bohemian pretensions that will astonish and delight his many fans.* Aldo Cassidy is…	OL181815W
Overload	Arthur Hailey	In the middle of a sweltering July heat wave that has no end in sight, California’s Golden State Power and Light is on overload. An emergency brownout is already in effect. Then, GSP&L’s newest and l…	OL2475094W
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
The Secret Pilgrim	John le Carré	The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies now yield to glasnost and perestroika. The killing shadows of the Cold War are flooded with light. The future is unfathomable. …	OL29767W
Except for me and thee	Jessamyn West	*These further adventures of Jess and Eliza Birdwell, the beloved hero and heroine of ''The Friendly Persuasion,''* are cause for celebration to the millions who have met them in Jessamyn West's me…	OL4616538W
Call After Midnight	Mignon Good Eberhart	A woman battles to protect her ex-husband from a murder charge. The phone rings just after twelve. Jenny Vleedam knows it cannot be anyone but Peter, and she tries to let it ring. **He left her f…	OL470400W
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
The Bastard	Lyle Kenyon Engel,John Jakes	*“Phillipe Charboneau—the bastard. Illegitimate son of an English nobleman,* Phillipe flees Europe and, as Philip Kent, joins the turbulent adventure that was the beginning of the American Experi…	OL56114W
The Rib of the Hawk	Rosamond Marshall	''*A story of Renaissance Rome and of Mia, a fair haired 16th Century girl not entirely unlike our own Marilyn Monroe*...Virtue triumphs herein, but the margin is close enogh to give Rosamond Mar…	OL7421477W
Joy in the Morning	Betty Smith	*In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love.* Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry hi…	OL78356W
The man in grey	Lady Eleanor Smith	*In fact and name, a Regency romance, and a most accomplished piece of story telling, with color, passion and high drama.* From the gay, gaudy, glamorous world of Whig fashionables, a descendant …	OL9465935W
Lorena	Frank G. Slaughter	TORN BY CONFLICTING LOYALTIES, LINKED BY PASSIONATE LOVE The Civil War had separated beautiful, willful Lorena Selby from her husband. He had gone to fight the Yankees, while she stayed be…	OL99250W