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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A Shine of Rainbows	Lillian Beckwith	*Mairi and Sandy live on a lonely Hebridean island, content with each other, despite their lack of children.* When Mairi brings home Thomas, a child from the orphanage, Sandy is jealous of Mai…	OL10591088W
An instant in the wind	André Brink	Based on the lives of Elisabeth Larsson and Adam Mantoor.	OL11347466W
Gremlins	George Gipe	When Billy forgets to follow specific instructions for care of his strange new pet, Gizmo, beastly gremlins pop up to wreak havoc on the town.	OL122751W
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
Came a Cavalier	Frances Parkinson Keyes	Came a Cavalier is the story of Constance Galt, a beautiful girl who has great qualities of loyalty and loving-kindness, but whose outlook has been limited by a legacy of poverty and intolerance an…	OL15135226W
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
Der Milchmann	Rafael Seligmann	Jakob Weinberg hat etwas aus seinem Leben gemacht. Wohlhabend lebt der Siebzigjährige mit seiner jungen Geliebten in München. Bei seinen Freunden gilt der Milchmann als Held. In Auschwitz hat er Troc…	OL1694335W
The Woman Who Couldn't Scream	Christina Dodd	**A beautiful, mute woman returns to Virtue Falls, Washington, to exact revenge on a deadly enemy in The Woman Who Couldn't Scream, a mesmerizing, emotional thriller from bestselling author Christina…	OL19726434W
Temptations of a Wallflower	Eva Leigh	*Eva Leigh's deliciously sexy Wicked Quills of London series continues as a Lady's secret career writing erotic fiction is jeopardized by real-life romance . . .--FictionDB* **"In society circ…	OL20025708W
Curious George (2013) Builds an Igloo	Erica Zappy (Adaptor)	Curious George wants to help his friend Bill build a house made of snow--an igloo! But will George's supersize igloo be too cold to sleep in? / "" Gr. 1 / Guided reading level: I	OL20381258W
Sans Moi	Marie Desplechin	"Sans Moi is the resonant story of two Parisian women: the narrator, a single mother and commercial writer struggling to bring up her two young children, and Olivia, a recovering drug addict and onet…	OL2302249W
How Green Was My Valley	Richard Llewellyn	This is a story set in a south Wales coal mining valley and tells of a family striving to improve their lives through hard work, education and their non-conformist faith. The main character is th…	OL2647269W
Landfall, a channel story	Rob Spence,Nevil Shute	*Against the grim background of England at war, the romance of Jery Chambers and Mona Stevens stands out like an unexpected spring day in the midst of a brutal winter.* Jerry is a flying officer …	OL2779743W
The people's act of love	James Meek	Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005. 1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of the Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian…	OL3171355W
Gentian Hill	Elizabeth Goudge	Novel set in England at the time of Napoleonic Wars. They met as children... Unable to bear the prospect of life at sea, young Anthony O'Connell deserts his ship at Torquay and escapes into the Devon…	OL535191W
Lobo, Rag, and Vixen and pictures	Ernest Thompson Seton	*Ernest Thompson Seton was an instrumental figure in the establishment of the Boy Scouts, but he also wrote stories about the frontier and Westerns that continue to be read today.* These stori…	OL549985W
Partisan (Hostile Takeover)	S. Andrew Swann	This sequel to Profiteer returns readers to the 24th century universe at a time when humans have built a star spanning Confederacy that encompasses 84 worlds minus one--Bakunin. Now the Confederacy w…	OL5814048W
細雪 (Sasameyuki)	谷崎潤一郎	The outstanding Japanese novelist of the century...The Makioka Sisters is his greatest book' Edmund White, New York Times Book ReviewTanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the decli…	OL668682W
I Am Fifteen--And I Don't Want to Die	Christine Arnothy	Everyone, regardless of age, should read this book, as told by a 15 year-old child, who lived through WWII, and was brave enough to share her experience, with the world. Both Christine Arnothy an…	OL706612W
Never Love a Stranger	Harold Robbins	Harold Robbins' very first novel is also one of his most powerful. Never Love a Stranger tells the gritty and passionate tale of Francis "Frankie" Kane, from his meager beginnings as an orphan in…	OL8045876W