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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
One Night of Passion	Elizabeth Boyle	They Met At London's Notorious Cyprian's Ball...Georgiana Escott has one night to find the perfect man to ruin her and leave her with a tattered reputation so she can avoid an arranged marriage to an…	OL1000064W
Rituals of the Season	Margaret Maron	- "High Country Fall, Margaret Maron's most recent installment in the Deborah Knott series, was published in Mysterious Press hardcover in 8/04, with a first printing of 40,000 copies.- Margaret Maro…	OL100007W
High country fall	Margaret Maron	With friends and family over-reacting to her announcement that she plans to marry Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, Judge Deborah Knott gratefully seizes the opportunity to put a five-hour drive betwee…	OL100011W
Hard row	Margaret Maron	As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the cou…	OL100017W
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
A Kind of Honor	Joan Wolf	When beautiful Amanda Doune wed the Duc de Gace, the elegant exiled French noble offered her full enjoyment of his wealth and position in return for her total worship of him. But her early adoration …	OL100052W
Hawksong: The Kiesha'ra	Amelia Atwater-Rhodes	DANICA SHARDAE IS an avian shapeshifter, and the golden hawk's form in which she takes to the sky is as natural to her as the human one that graces her on land. The only thing more familiar to her is…	OL100071W
The savage curse	Jory Sherman	Believing that he is indestructible and unstoppable, Ollie Hobart, a murderer and a thief, joins a band of renegade Navajos to continue raiding every mine in Tucson. He doesn't count on John Savage,…	OL100152W
Sister Carrie	Theodore Dreiser	Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York.	OL100203W
The rich and the profane	Jonathan Gash,Jonathan Gash	This could only happen to Lovejoy. One minute a beautiful young girl is asking him how to steal a cheap Edwardian necklace; the next he's jetting off to the Channel Isles, posing as a showbiz impresa…	OL100309W
Dead Air	Iain M. Banks	Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian, vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast, people start dropping fruit from a balcony on to a deserted car park below. As they …	OL100778W
Dog World	Alfred Gingold	"I fuss over George when he's sick and I fuss over him when he's well. I send him to a play group several days a week to give him intraspecies quality time. I will discuss the state of his bowels wit…	OL100865W
Famous last words	Timothy Findley	En 1945, dans un palace abandonné des Alpes autrichiennes, un écrivain américain traqué, zélateur du fascisme, couvre les murs et les plafonds de ses souvenirs : la Chine de 1924; la France de 1936; …	OL102444W
The janitor's boy	Andrew Clements	Fifth-grader Jack finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his anger onto his father.	OL102504W
Lunch money	Andrew Clements	Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.	OL102505W
Jake Drake know-it-all	Andrew Clements	Jake is determined to win the third grade science fair not only for the grand prize, but to beat the annoying class know-it-alls, as well.	OL102512W
Two truths and a lie	Katrina Kittle	Dair Canard has long been a master at weaving stories out of thin air. A natural actress, she leads a life that's a minefield of untruths she can never admit to anyone—especially not to Peyton, her h…	OL102620W
Traveling light	Katrina Kittle	"Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face" was the best advice Summer Zwolenick ever received from her father, though she didn't recognize it at the time. Three years after the accident tha…	OL102621W
Billy Budd	Herman Melville	TRIALS OF THE HANDSOME SAILOR Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the Handsome Sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, noble looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful …	OL102746W
The fan	Peter Abrahams	"Two men."--BOOK JACKET. "One is a baseball star. He has an ex-cheerleader for a wife and a girl in every big-league town. The ball comes off his bat like a firecracker. Bobby Rayburn isn't just a ba…	OL102872W