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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
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
Smell	Radhika Jha	Novel.	OL1070414W
Novels (Agnes Grey / Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights)	Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Anne Brontë	The three great novels collected here are set in a beautiful by awe-inspiring landscape and they explore the darkest and most extreme emotions. Here are some of the most memorable characters in liter…	OL1095411W
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
Holding the Dream	Nora Roberts,Sandra Burr	Nora Roberts presents the second novel in a dramatic new trilogy. Margo, Kate, and Laura were brought up like sisters amidst the peerless grandeur of Templeton House. But it was Kate who soon discove…	OL111571W
The optimist's daughter	Eudora Welty	The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel, a widow who returns to Mississippi when her father is ill and witnesses his death and funeral. From there, she embarks on a deeply personal journey to …	OL113982W
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
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
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
Shifting plains	Jean Johnson	The spellbinding prequel to the national bestselling Sons of Destiny series.Decades before the shattering of the empire of Aiar and hundreds of years before the time of the Sons of Destiny, Tava Ell …	OL12278140W
Daddy's little girl	Mary Higgins Clark	From Mary Higgins Clark, America's bestselling "Queen of Suspense," comes a chilling story of murder that reaches the heights of suspense while exploring the depths of the criminal mind. Ellie Cavana…	OL13060W
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
A Rainbow to Heaven	Barbara Cartland	Love's Fortunes... Lovely Diana Headley, London's brightest socialite, had everything--wealth, beauty, her choice of suitors. Then tragedy struck her family. Overnight she was penniless, a social …	OL135005W
A stranger in my grave	Margaret Millar	What happened to Daisy Harker on Decemeber 2,1955? That was the date she had seen on the tombstone and yet she was still alive. The name on the grave was hers but whose was the body? Regardless of th…	OL137336W
Sarny, a life remembered	Gary Paulsen	Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-fou…	OL14850090W
The devil of Nanking	Mo Hayder	Now reissued as a B-format paperback, an extraordinary, electrifying thriller by one of Britain's bestselling crime-writers.Tokyo, 1990Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching fo…	OL14861541W
The Serpent's Shadow (Elemental Masters #1)	Mercedes Lackey	Mercedes Lackey returns to form in The Serpent's Shadow, the fourth in her sequence of reimagined fairy tales. This story takes place in the London of 1909, and is based on "Snow White and the Seven …	OL14913424W
Hope's Highway	Dorothy Garlock	Abandoned by Ernie Harding, who steals her life's savings, Margie Kinnard pursues her dream of becoming a movie star with the help of her long-lost father, but her goals could be sidetracked by Ernie…	OL14914074W
Surf-Vival Handbook for Land & Sea	Patty Vogan,Carol O'Connell	The "surf" is always up in this pocket guide on life at the beach. Packed with cool, retro graphics and can-do positive affirmations, the handbook comes with tips on attitude, work ethic, surf ethic,…	OL14926142W
Peony in Love	Lisa See	"I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret."For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion m…	OL14927221W