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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The lemur	John Banville,Eduard Castanyo Montserrat	"John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable. He's given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate and former CIA agen…	OL11651248W
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
Of bees and mist	Erick Setiawan	From high in the house that stands on the hill, young Meridia watches her stern father Gabriel, disappear off into a mist each night and her proud mother speaking to her pots and pans in strange lang…	OL13760903W
The Wet Nurse's Tale	Erica Eisdorfer	Bright and clever with a sharp-tongued, adventurous heroine who offers a candid and often funny look at the business of nursing babies in Victorian England, this is a debut novel that will have every…	OL13773581W
Wisdom of Dead Men	Oisin McGann	Another epic story from the talented mind of Oisin McGann, author of the critically acclaimed Ancient Appetites.If you're head of the Wildenstern clan, you can expect someone'll try to kill you at so…	OL14907349W
Open country	Kaki Warner	How do you forgive a brother's betrayal? How far do you go to protect the family you love? Hank and Molly find out in OPEN COUNTRY, Book II of the 1870s family saga, the Blood Rose Trilogy. Molly…	OL15110952W
Dance With Wings	Amelia Carr	Multi-generational saga, secrets that have torn a family apart revealed. Strong love story set against the background of the ATA in World War 2, present day section told through the eyes of the peop…	OL15348073W
The scent of rain and lightning	Nancy Pickard	Twenty-three years ago, when she was only three years old, Jody Linder¡s father was murdered. Her mother had vanished, presumed dead. Local trouble-maker Billy Crosby confessed to the murder and was …	OL15472879W
The Lost Gate	Orson Scott Card	The Lost Gate is a fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card. It is the first novel in the Mither Mages trilogy. The second novel is The Gate Thief. There will be a third novel. (from Wikipedia)	OL15598528W
Long Gone	Alafair Burke	Echoing the intensity of Harlan Coben’s Tell No One and the psychological depth of Laura Lippman’s What the Dead Know, Alafair Burke’s first stand-alone novel catapults her into the top ranks of mode…	OL15816164W
The Sins of Lord Easterbrook	Madeline Hunter	Only a desperate mission could bring Leona Montgomery face-to-face with the scoundrel whose dangerous sensuality once sent her fleeing from his arms. But she has under-estimated Christian, Marquess o…	OL15978643W
Heat wave	Nancy Thayer	After her husband's sudden death from a heart attack, Carley finds herself in a difficult financial situation and decides to turn their historic Nantucket house into a bed-and-breakfast, but events d…	OL15988905W
Sins of the mother	Tara Hyland	Follows a mother and daughter through post-World War II Ireland and London, demonstrating that family bonds can never be broken.	OL16214099W
The still point	Amy Sackville	An exquisitely crafted, strikingly original literary debut that is both a doomed Arctic adventure and a haunting love story.	OL16296043W
The Sins of the Father	Jeffrey Archer	It is only days before Britain declares war on Germany. Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of a family scandal, and realizing he can never marry Emma Barrington, has joined the Merchant…	OL16342621W
The orchid house	Lucinda Riley	"For fans of The House at Riverton and Rebecca--a debut spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from a magnificent estate in war-torn England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a …	OL16415543W
August and then some	David Prete	New York City. By day, JT Savage is a labourer on the Upper East Side; by night an insomniac in an East Village tenement. His had been a superficially normal childhood in Yonkers, New York; a time of…	OL16520015W
The girl below	Bianca Zander	"In this haunting debut novel, a young woman, recently returned to London after ten years away, finds herself slipping back into her childhood and ultimately must solve the mysteries of her dysfuncti…	OL16585796W
The Polish boxer	Eduardo Halfon	Mapping the geography of identity in a world scarred by a legacy of violence and exile, 'The Polish Boxer' covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins.	OL16627113W
The apple orchard	Susan Wiggs	Set to inherit half of Bella Vista, a one hundred-acre apple orchard in a town called Archangel, along with a half-sister she's never heard of, Tess Delaney, who makes a living restoring stolen treas…	OL16802474W