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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The dark Lord of Pengersick	Richard Carlyon	Mabby and Jago determine to defeat the Lord of Pengersick, an evil sorcerer who has filled the lives of the people of the surrounding area with misery and terror.	OL101336W
The executioner's song	Norman Mailer	Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 a…	OL10426574W
The Hessian	Howard Fast	When his entire brigade is wiped out by the colonists, a sixteen-year-old German drummer boy survives with the aid of a Quaker family and the local doctor.	OL1067130W
Soon	Jerry B. Jenkins	Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance with the world government's prohibition on religion. Paul relishes his job and…	OL108030W
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s…	OL1095427W
Sweet Revenge	Nora Roberts	Kurzbeschreibung Gefährliche Verstrickung (Sweet Revenge) - Nora Roberts Die Prinzessin Adrianne scheint ein glückliches und ausgefülltes Leben zu führen. Die ebenso schöne wie elegante Frau v…	OL111438W
Birthright	Nora Roberts,Michel Ganstel	When five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adv…	OL111543W
Table for Two (Lessons Learned / Summer Desserts)	Nora Roberts	Two tempting classics from the master of romance! Summer Desserts: When love-resistant dessert chef Summer Lyndon develops a taste for her delectable boss Blake Cocharan, her legendary willpower i…	OL111581W
The Switch	Elmore Leonard	Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara hit it off in prison, where they were both doing time for grand theft auto. Now that they're out, they're joining forces for one big score. The plan is to kidnap the wife…	OL111652W
Escape me never	Sara Craven	There was simply no escaping love... Cassie Linton turned unobtrusiveness into an art. She wasn't a frustrated widow--ripe for the taking--and she went out of her way to avoid appealing to the opp…	OL11327665W
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh	Michael Chabon	Im magischen Sommer nach dem Collegeabschluß will Art Bechstein Pittsburgh auf den Kopf stellen. Und wird selbst auf den Kopf gestellt. Er versinkt völlig in den glitzernd bunten Geheimnissen der gra…	OL119429W
L’étranger	Albert Camus	L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienn…	OL1230613W
No place like home	Mary Higgins Clark	I cannot believe I am standing in the exact spot where I was standing when I killed my mother...When she was ten Liza Barton shot her mother dead, trying to protect her from her violent stepfather. T…	OL13066W
Gauchos judíos	Alberto Gerchunoff	"Reprint, with minor changes, of the 1955 translation of Gerchunoff's 1910 classic volume about Jewish immigrants in rural Argentina. Twenty-six vignettes, with some inter-related characters, tell st…	OL1308236W
The Shell Seekers	Rosamunde Pilcher	The Shell Seekers is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The Shell Seekers is filled with real people--mothers…	OL134642W
Trial by fire	J. A. Jance	In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she…	OL13655W
Tombstone courage	J. A. Jance,Hillary Huber	With grit, courage and dogged determination, Joanne challenged the status quo -- and won. Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, she must battle the prejudice and hostility of a mi…	OL13667W
Best friends	Thomas Berger	"Since childhood, Sam Grandy and Roy Courtright have been best friends. They grew up in the same prosperous community, went to the same prep school, and later entered the same university. After Sam's…	OL137285W
Under the Andes	Rex Stout	A non-Nero Wolfe novel, rather Wierd Science and pulp magazine-ish. From Goodreads: "Under the Andes is an early novel by Rex Stout, first published in the All-Story Magazine in 1914. Temptress Desi…	OL137507W
The siege	Stephen White	Stephen White—author of over a dozen New York Times bestsellers— returns with a relentlessly propelled, thriller that will remind readers of his acclaimed Kill Me. Stephen White’s Alan Gregory novels…	OL14847921W