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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A garden of earthly delights	Joyce Carol Oates	In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard e…	OL14958466W
The days of the king	Filip Florian	Dentist Joseph Strauss leaves Prussia in the spring of 1866 and follows Captain of Dragoons Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen to Bucharest, where the officer is to a…	OL16121329W
We go together!	Calef Brown	"In Calef Brown's poem "We Go Together," he jubilantly decrees: "We go together / like fingers and thumbs. / Basses and drums. / Pastries and crumbs." In "You Are Two (Kiwis)," he muses, "I am quite …	OL16645686W
A Secret Splendor	Sandra Brown	After the death of her little boy, Joey, Arden Gentry feels a terrible emptiness. Divorced and devastated over the loss of her son, Arden is utterly alone. But she has another son--a child she agreed…	OL167275W
Mistress of My Fate	Hallie Rubenhold	England, 1789. Under a cloud of scandal, Henrietta Lightfoot flees her home at Melmouth Park. She has little money and no worthwhile talents, for what use is a neat stitch and a pretty voice outside …	OL17091241W
The English Lord’s Secret Son	Margaret Way	Cate Hamilton and Ashe Carlisle had a passionate affair seven years ago, but his haughty mother came between them and Cate fled back to Australia, not knowing then that she was pregnant. Now a succes…	OL17433636W
Novels (Above and Beyond / Secret Splendor)	Sandra Brown	A Secret Splendor - SHE WAS A MOTHER WITHOUT A CHILD.After the death of her son, Arden Gentry felt a terrible emptiness. But she had another son, a child her ex-husband had forced her to give up at b…	OL17520536W
Philomena	Martin Sixsmith	"When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman." Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousan…	OL17861231W
Mayflower bastard	Lindsay, David,David Lindsay	"David Lindsay, researching old records to learn details of the life of his ancestor Richard More, soon found himself in the position of the Sorcerer's Apprentice - wherever he looked for one item, t…	OL1958858W
Paradise jazz	Kat Pomfret	Deals with sassy dialogue and jazz club rhythms.	OL19893345W
Tycoon takedown	Ruth Cardello	Melanie Hanna has finally worked up the courage to travel from Texas to New York and tell an old flame that he's the father of her young son. When her best friend asks her brother to watch over Melan…	OL20000431W
The one before the one	Katy Regan	A contemporary love story told with Katy's inimitable laugh-out-loud humour, poignancy and heart. TO DO LIST: Make something with Quinoa; Pluck eyebrows; Do something 'cultural' every week; Dump marr…	OL20942878W
Warrior of ice	Michelle Willingham	Physically and emotionally scarred, Lady Taryn knows no man would want her for a wife. Nonetheless, she's determined to free her father from his merciless overlord and enlists powerful warrior Killia…	OL21540375W
A mother's shame	Rosie Goodwin	Hatter's Hall is a forbidding place - home to the mentally insane. One rainy, dismal day in 1857, Maria Mundy arrives at Hatter's Hall, not as an inmate but as a worker. Here, she is ordered to care …	OL24843391W
To the last man	Zane Grey	"This is the classic story of a deadly feud between cattlemen and sheepherders in the Tonto Basin of Arizona in the late years of the 1800s that gave substance to one of the legendary conflicts of th…	OL26441156W
Murder on Lenox Hill	Victoria Thompson	Hired by the wealthy Linton family to confirm that their teenage daughter, a mentally deficient young girl who is constantly protected, has somehow become pregnant, turn-of-the-century midwife Sarah …	OL3594521W
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of t…	OL455305W
Hollow Ground	Stephen Marion	"When Gary left Zinctown, Tennessee, fourteen years ago, he left behind a father he couldn't please, a long-dead brother whose memory was inescapable, and a girl who was carrying his child. He hadn't…	OL6215428W
Wise Children	Angela Carter	In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora -- unacknowledged the daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor…	OL697431W
The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates the same episodes from four different viewpoints, using a different …	OL82870W