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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The scandal of the season	Sophie Gee	This is a novel about risk and dangerous liaisons in a time of Jacobite plots and Popish fears, when marriage was a market and sex a temptation fraught with danger. It is a witty, modern love story -…	OL12297628W
Star light, star bright	Katherine Stone	To find happiness at FoxHaven, Rafe McClure must choose betweeen Lily and Blaire.	OL14852521W
Hell's Bay	James W. Hall	Descended from pioneer stock, the Bateses are an aristocratic Floridian family with vast holdings in real estate and mining. When matriarch Abigail Bates is discovered drowned in the Peace River, a c…	OL15103684W
The spare wife	Alex Witchel	A beautiful and wealthy widow, Ponce Morris enjoys her life as the perfect companion to the powerful couples with whom she socializes, until an ambitious young writer reveals her secret affair with a…	OL15366452W
The FitzOsbornes in exile	Michelle Cooper,Michelle Cooper	In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social…	OL15998728W
Secret relations	Annabel Dilke	Lifelong friends and cousins Charlie, Kitty, Max, and Liza of the St. Clair political family struggle with limitations that are placed on their ambitions, questionable business decisions that comprom…	OL16026812W
Whitefern	V. C. Andrews	"The long-awaited sequel to My Sweet Audrina, one of V.C. Andrews's strangest, most beloved books--and now a Lifetime movie! Whitefern swallowed Audrina's childhood--and now the sprawling Victorian m…	OL19063893W
The complete Patrick Melrose novels	Edward St Aubyn	Follows the life of Patrick Melrose, a member of an upper class English family, through his traumatic childhood with an abusive father, drug addiction, fatherhood, and the possible loss of his family…	OL19324353W
Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel	Imbolo Mbue,Sarah Tardy	When Jende Jonga journeys to New York City from Cameroon in 2004 on a visitors' visa in hopes of obtaining a green card, he's sure his life will only improve. After saving up enough money to bring ov…	OL19354213W
We shall not all sleep	Estep Nagy	"Seven Island has two houses. One for Hillsingers and one for Quicks. 1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family -…	OL19714811W
Death was in the blood	Linda Richards	When her father killed himself after the stock market crash of 1929, Kitty Pangborn's life changed forever. Raised to be a debutante, she was forced to get a job as a secretary for Los Angeles P.I. D…	OL19969993W
Snobs	Julian Fellowes	"Snobs is narrated by a journeyman actor who moves comfortably among the upper classes, while chronicling their foibles. And what a tale he has to tell." "Edith Lavery, the attractive only child of a…	OL27971451W
Victorian girls	Sheila Fletcher	The daughters of George, fourth Lord Lyttelton, were the nieces of Prime Minister Gladstone. Their letters and diaries provide a detailed picture of their lives at home in Worcestershire and in fashi…	OL3286741W
Me vence tu sensibilidad	Corín Tellado	Los Harris y los Richardson, dos familias amigas pertenecientes a la alta sociedad de Camden, están de fiesta. El joven arquitecto Peter Harris va a contraer matrimonio con Rixa, la pequeña de los Ri…	OL3658156W
The Loving Spirit	Daphne du Maurier	***This book is a lush generational novel from the bestselling author of Rebecca. In her acclaimed debut, celebrated author Daphne du Maurier weaves a stunning tale of heartbreaking loss and undying …	OL36622W
Ada	Vladimir Nabokov	Two young children engage in an inocent tryst only to later discover a wonderful and terrible secret about themselves. "The arbors and ardors of Ardis."	OL4413233W
The late George Apley	John P. Marquand	From back cover of Washington Square Press paperback January 1970: A wicked satire This is a brilliantly etched portrait of a Bostonian and of the tradition-bound, gilded society in which he li…	OL5102221W
The Cinderella Scandal	Barbara McCauley	Dynasties: The Danforths. A family of prominence...tested by scandal, sustained by passion!Tina Alexander wanted her wealthy playboy neighbor gone—he was too much of a distraction for the normally st…	OL5690807W
Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn Waugh	The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the…	OL5721394W
The House at Riverton	Kate Morton	1 volume ; 20 cm	OL9006004W