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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Last Kiss Last Kiss Luanne Rice New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice returns to Hubbard's Point, Connecticut, and to characters from her beloved Beach Girls, to tell the haunting story of a close-knit community grappling w… OL106201W
My Oedipus Complex My Oedipus Complex Frank O'Connor A child's jealousy of his place in his mother's life erupts when his father comes home from the war, not to subside until a new baby arrives placing his father and him in the same position. OL1195439W
The well The well A. J. Whitten Fourteen-year-old Cooper must face a monster trapped for two centuries in a well near his stepfather's Maine vineyard or risk everything that he holds dear, including his girlfriend, Megan. OL13768244W
The Wet Nurse's Tale The Wet Nurse's Tale Erica Eisdorfer Bright and clever with a sharp-tongued, adventurous heroine who offers a candid and often funny look at the business of nursing babies in Victorian England, this is a debut novel that will have every… OL13773581W
Esther Waters, a novel Esther Waters, a novel George Moore Quoting Wikipedia: "Set in England from the early 1870s onward, the novel is about a young, pious woman from a poor working class family who, while working as a kitchen maid, is seduced by another em… OL1381165W
The world according to Garp The world according to Garp John Irving "A Henry Robbins book." OL14858722W
The chimpanzee kid The chimpanzee kid Ron Roy Considered to be something of a misfit by his classmates because of his interest in animal rights, Harold finds a friend in the new boy in class who agrees to help him in his secret plan to free a ca… OL15270160W
Operation rhinoceros Operation rhinoceros Lee Wardlaw Jeffrey plans a way to combat the fact that he is losing all of his friends in the fifth grade because his mother is the new teacher. OL15286953W
Maggy's child Maggy's child Karen Robards She was Mrs. Lyle Forrest now, the coolly elegant wife of Louisville's most prominent publisher, the slum girl whose dreams -- and nightmares -- came true the night she married the multimillionaire o… OL167232W
Candles on Bay Street Candles on Bay Street K. C. McKinnon A woman who left her high-school sweetheart to marry another, returns 15 years later as a single mother, becoming best friends with his wife. It happens in Maine where she opens a candle shop. OL167337W
Bloodstream Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen Lapped by he gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the distractions of… OL261692W
The batboy The batboy Mike Lupica It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball wa… OL2727932W
Raven Stole the Moon Raven Stole the Moon Garth Stein From the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain comes an extraordinary tale of grief, devotion, redemption, and timeless mystery.When Jenna Rosen abandons her… OL2756025W
The mothers The mothers Keith Botsford "The Mothers are the women in Jim Mount's life: his adoring (and rejected) mother, Felicita (ironical name for her, "Happiness"), and the four women he loved and lived with: Louise is a sexually vora… OL5749342W
The history of Sir Richard Calmady The history of Sir Richard Calmady Lucas Malet This is a fascinating study of a man born with his feet where his knees should be. It chronicles his struggles with his disability. Malet is the pseudonym of the daughter of Charles Kingsley, the … OL5777681W
Portnoy's Complaint Portnoy's Complaint Philip A. Roth Though is caused outrage and controversy at the time of its publication Roth’s comic novel of sexual obsession and frustration is now widely regarded as one of the best novels of the twentieth centur… OL74676W
The Golden Age The Golden Age Gore Vidal **From Amazon.com:** **The Golden Age** is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and t… OL7974912W
Is Anybody There? Is Anybody There? Eve Bunting After discovering the disappearance of several household items, Marcus, a thirteen-year-old latchkey child, suspects that a stranger may be prowling around inside his house while he's at school and h… OL97513W