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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Evergreen	Belva Plain	8 Months on the N.Y. Times Best-Seller List. The Best-Loved Best-Seller of the Year: A young Polish immigrant woman, in love with the scion of the German-Jewish banking family for which she work…	OL10672947W
White Banners	Lloyd C. Douglas	A heartening story of a domestic servant who molded wisely the lives of her employers and their children, knowing that service, whether as servant or king, is a noble destiny. **Lloyd Cassel D…	OL12589W
monster	Jonathan Kellerman	*A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk.* Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent r…	OL12729W
Heidi	Johanna Spyri	*The famous Swiss classic about Heidi, a five-year-old orphan girl* who goes to live with her grandfather, and his goats, in an alm (Alpine pasture)...up the Alps. **One of the most loved classic…	OL1455042W
Invitation to Live	Lloyd C. Douglas	The power of love ... even that coming from the grave .. *Barbara* has too much money and no friends. *Sally* is abrasive and opportunistic, and a gifted mimic. Lee is a frustrated artis…	OL15143507W
The Man from St. Petersburg	Ken Follett	Feliks came to London to commit a murder that would change history. He had many weapons at his command, but his most dangerous were the love of a innocent woman, and the passion of a lady demanding s…	OL15649851W
Strange Lands Near Home	M. A. L. Lane	*Readers -- 1870-1950. ''Youth's Companion Series'' Used in the U.S.A. school curriculum: Geography.* The volumes of the *''Youth's Companion Series'' entitled ''The Wide World,'' ''Northern…	OL16885322W
Helen Carey	Martha Trent	The story of the many and exciting adventures of a girl, brought up on a western ranch. Helen (nicknamed "Missy") Carey is a girl who does things, including the rescue of one of her father's helpers …	OL17665927W
The Naive and Sentimental Lover	John le Carré	*John le Carre's "The Naive and Sentimental Lover" offers a dark and ribald send-up of both middle-class and bohemian pretensions that will astonish and delight his many fans.* Aldo Cassidy is…	OL181815W
The Woman Who Couldn't Scream	Christina Dodd	*"Merida Falcon is a world-class beauty, a trophy wife who seems to have it all--except she has no voice.* For nine bitter years, Merida lived to serve her wealthy elderly husband, never leaving …	OL19712859W
Bedside Book of Laughter	The Editors of The Reader's Digest	The Reader's Digest Bedside Library: stories & quips selected from ''The Reader's Digest'' offerings. ''A little ruthless laughter clears the air as nothing else can do; it is good for us, every …	OL20664056W
Bachelor Jim's Family	Clarence A. Boon	*Bachelor Jim's Family ...is the continuation of the book BACHELOR JIM. It tells about Jim's family, and where and how they lived.* Raising a family of three girls and a boy, was no easy task at …	OL20733323W
The Talbot odyssey	Nelson De Mille	For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole -- code name Talbot -- inside the CIA. At first, Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Th…	OL22906W
Overload	Arthur Hailey	In the middle of a sweltering July heat wave that has no end in sight, California’s Golden State Power and Light is on overload. An emergency brownout is already in effect. Then, GSP&L’s newest and l…	OL2475094W
The Secret Pilgrim	John le Carré	The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies now yield to glasnost and perestroika. The killing shadows of the Cold War are flooded with light. The future is unfathomable. …	OL29767W
Shades Of Fortune	Stephen Birmingham	This is a novel of a modern-day cosmetics empire and the dynamic family dynasty behind it. Stephen Birmingham is the author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction including "The Auerbach Wil…	OL41754W
Except for me and thee	Jessamyn West	*These further adventures of Jess and Eliza Birdwell, the beloved hero and heroine of ''The Friendly Persuasion,''* are cause for celebration to the millions who have met them in Jessamyn West's me…	OL4616538W
The Red Snow	James Greiner	*In The Red Snow, his second work, Greiner turns his keen eye to Alaska's vast wilderness and its most mysterious creature: the gray wolf.* Basing his story on careful research and personal obser…	OL5107332W
Victorine (aka	Frances Parkinson Keyes	A lineal descendant of Frances Parkinson Keyes' last novel, "Blue Camellia," the story of Victorine concerns the return of a cosmopolitan, half-Jewish, half-Roman Catholic girl to Louisiana with her …	OL5910041W
The Black Stallion	Walter Farley	*Story of a horse the New York Times has called ''the most famous fictional horse of the Century!''* Young Alec is on his way home when a black stallion is loaded on to his ship. In a tragic s…	OL869965W