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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
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
Marriage	Susan Ferrier	xi, 529 pages ; 20 cm	OL10417844W
Royal summons	Elizabeth Cadell	An independent, spirited beauty, Ellen Berg seemed the least likely girl to fall in love with an historic ruin in a small English village. But that was before she was told of her deceased mother's re…	OL104227W
Covergirl	Maura Moynihan	Maura Moynihan's first novel, Covergirl, blends reality and fiction in a brilliant and exciting roman a clef that draws richly from the author's own adventures as a Warhol Girl and from her many year…	OL1050973W
Hearts of Gold	Jessica Stirling,Jessica Stirling	Elspeth and Anna Patterson of Balnesmoor have married well: Elspeth to a wealthy wool merchant, Anna to the son of a respected factor. But they are not happy. The two married sisters, leading oddly p…	OL10614347W
Treasures on Earth	Jessica Stirling	Scotland 1791: on a wild November night, highlander Gaddy Paterson strays into the staid lowland parish of Balnesmoor, and stumbles on a dead girl and her abandoned baby. Gaddy adopts the child but w…	OL10614353W
Smell	Radhika Jha	Novel.	OL1070414W
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
Wives and daughters	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.	OL1103200W
Dark eye	William Bernhardt	Sometimes her eyes seduce. Sometimes they stare straight at the kind of sights most people turn away from. But in the blazing neon and searing sun of Las Vegas, she can't see the man who is watching …	OL114368W
The Moneychangers	Upton Sinclair	Upton Sinclair writes an historic novel concerning the Wall Street scare of 1907. He describes how several formidable capitalists organize the fall of a rival trust company. The ruin of this enterpri…	OL115069W
A Clergyman's Daughter	George Orwell	One of Orwell’s earlier novels this relates the strange story of a young unmarried woman who is seemingly content to keep house for her father, a village rector. After a dinner with a local bachelor …	OL1168017W
Factory Girls	Leslie T. Chang	An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.China has 130 million migrant workers--the largest migra…	OL11892758W
B As in beauty	Alberto Ferreras	Everyone in the world, it seems, is either prettier or thinner (or both) than Beauty Marie Zavala. And the only thing "B" resents more than her name is the way others judge her for the extra 40 pound…	OL11963148W
Grasshopper	Ruth Rendell	Clodagh Brown loved climbing. First it was trees. Later, as a teenager, she would scale the electrical pylons that tower over the English countryside like giant grasshoppers -- and share the experien…	OL12123W
My Brilliant Career	Miles Franklin	The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Bri…	OL1217011W
Works (Ethan Frome / Hermit and the Wild Woman and other stories)	Edith Wharton	Contains: The hermit and the wild woman -- The last asset -- In trust -- The pretext -- The verdict -- The pot-boiler -- The best man -- [Ethan Frome](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98501W…	OL13131348W
April Shadows	V. C. Andrews	April had always felt like an outsider. Her older sister Brenda was tall, athletic, competitive, and sure of herself. But April Taylor was short, sensitive, and overweight -- and she couldn't …	OL134820W
Tarnished Gold	V. C. Andrews	Gabriel Landry is as beautiful as her beloved bayou. Her high school graduation just days away, Gabriel is blissfully happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, …	OL134877W
The Best Man	Grace Livingston Hill	Cyril Gordon, a handsome government agent, possesses vital information that, in the wrong hands, would threaten national security. And he is being pursued by desperate men who will stop at nothing to…	OL14848626W