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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Glass Palace	Amitav Ghosh	Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create …	OL1054090W
A vow to cherish	Deborah Raney	When his precious wife of thirty years received a devastating diagnosis, John Brighton's world fell apart. As his wife slipped from him day by day, his love was being tested as never before, and he f…	OL114220W
If There Be Thorns	V. C. Andrews	If There Be Thorns is a novel by Virginia Andrews which was published in 1981. It is the third book in the Dollanganger series. The story takes place in the year 1982. The book is narrated by tw…	OL134891W
Miss Wyoming	Douglas Coupland	Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him. As a producer of high-adrenaline action…	OL14854123W
Winter garden	Kristin Hannah,Susan Ericksen,Inés Belaustegui Trias	Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn’t know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates t…	OL14954933W
Dance Lessons	Aine Greaney	A contemporary novel set in Ireland and greater Boston. Depicts the lives of three women and the intergenerational secrets they keep.	OL15679483W
I loved you all	Paula Sharp	Single mother Marguerite Daigle turns to alcohol to forget her torubles and her two daughters, Mahalia and Penny, turn away from her. After drying out, Marguerite discovers that it is not easy to win…	OL15843390W
Red Hook Road	Ayelet Waldman	After John Tetherly and Becca Copaken die in a freak car accident an hour after their wedding, their families are left to bridge stark class and cultural divides, and eventually forge deep-rooted bon…	OL15926311W
The Newcomes	William Makepeace Thackeray	The Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in th…	OL16312W
Shine shine shine	Lydia Netzer	Sunny wants, more than anything, to be "normal." She's got the housewife thing down, but her husband Maxon, a genius engineer, is on a NASA mission to the moon. Once they were two outcasts who found …	OL16557973W
Fictions--Second Edition	Mark Twain,Jorge Luis Borges,Антон Павлович Чехов,Edith Wharton,Ambrose Bierce,Alice Walker,William Faulkner,Philip A. Roth,Joseph F. Trimmer,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,James Joyce,Richard Wright,Jack London,Gabriel García Márquez,Doyle, A. Conan,Shirley Jackson,Alice Munro,C. Wade Jennings	Truth or consequences / Alice Adams The egg / Sherwood Anderson Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara Sara Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks The author / Donald B…	OL17733654W
After Annie	Michael Tucker	Celebrity Herbie Aaron is bereft by the cancer death of his wife until his natural cantankerous charisma reasserts itself, leading to relationships with a beautiful bartender and a tough-talking golf…	OL17829644W
For the love of Catherine	Carole Llewellyn	In the chaos aboard the sinking Titanic, Mair Parsons is separated from her infant daughter, Catherine, and her travelling companion and future mother-in-law, Ethel Jenkins. The disaster changes all …	OL17879732W
Three Short Novels	Gina Berriault	Gina Berriault work as a storywriter of great psychological empathy and extraordinary elegance and subtlety was celebrated widely at the end of her life. Her collection Women in Their Beds, won the P…	OL17912043W
The gift	Cecelia Ahern	Workaholic executive Lou Steffen shows an uncharacteristic burst of generosity towards Gabe, a homeless man who always seems to be in two places at once. Can Gabe help Lou fix what's broken before it…	OL18014715W
The angel of losses	Stephanie Feldman	When she discovers her grandfather's notebook, which is filled with stories of a miracle worker named the White Rebbe in league with the mysterious Angel of Losses, Marjorie embarks on a journey into…	OL18149401W
How to Be Good	Nick Hornby	According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor and her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes go…	OL1916938W
Roads	Marina Antropow Cramer	"When Nazi forces occupy the beautiful coastal city of Yalta, Crimea, everything changes. Eighteen-year-old Filip has few options; he is a prime candidate for forced labor in Germany. His hurried mar…	OL19715517W
The love wife	Gish Jen	From the highly praised author of Mona in the Promised Land and Who's Irish?--a generous, funny, explosive novel about the new "half-half" American family.Here is Carnegie Wong, second-generation Chi…	OL1973670W
Family ties	Danielle Steel	In this compelling novel, a young woman overnight becomes mother to her sister's three small children. Grown now, each of them will choose a different path. Through it all, one thing will remain: fam…	OL19949587W