Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Rhino, rhino, sweet potato Rhino, rhino, sweet potato Francine Prose When hungry rhinos rampage the village eating all the sweet potatoes, Roy bravely goes and teaches them new ways to live. OL14952617W
You never know You never know Francine Prose Though mocked by the rest of the villagers, poor Schmuel the shoemaker turns out to be a very special person. OL14952619W
Caravaggio Caravaggio Francine Prose Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary p… OL14952620W
Goldengrove Goldengrove Francine Prose A young girl faces the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward unders… OL14952621W
Burn This Book Burn This Book Paul Auster,Ed Park,Nadine Gordimer,Russell Banks,Salman Rushdie,John Updike,Francine Prose,Toni Morrison,David Grossman,Pico Iyer,Orhan Pamuk Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see th… OL15191496W
The turning The turning Francine Prose "A teen boy becomes the babysitter for two very peculiar children on a haunted island in this modern retelling of The Turn of the Screw"-- OL16694523W
The way we cook The way we cook James Oseland,Francine Prose Visually captivating, this stunning book is a photo journal of home cooks in their kitchens. Through arresting scenic photography, personal stories, and authentic recipes, see how individuals in diff… OL18016184W
Peggy Guggenheim Peggy Guggenheim Francine Prose Contains primary source material. A biography of one of twentieth century America's most influential patrons of the arts that covers her personal life, uncompromising spirit, and relationships with … OL19667667W
Bullyville Bullyville Francine Prose After the death of his estranged father in the World Trade Center on 9/11, thirteen-year-old Bart, still struggling with his feelings of guilt, sorrow and loss, wins a scholarship to the local prepar… OL19956113W
Anne Frank Anne Frank Francine Prose In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years… OL24190460W
(R)evolution (R)evolution Francine Prose "Inside these pages you will find poems, essays, and fiction from the next generation of women writers. Through the Girls Write Now program, each mentor-mentee pair develops and presents her best wor… OL28170397W
Bigfoot dreams Bigfoot dreams Francine Prose Vera Perl, "star reporter of a sleazy supermarket tabloid ... conjures up stories about UFO sightings, miracle cures in garden vegetables, evidence of life after death, and the ever-popular Bigfoot .… OL92809W
Household saints Household saints Francine Prose Tells the story of the Santangelos, a family in New York's Little Italy. OL92821W
The Lives of the Muses The Lives of the Muses Francine Prose Hester Thrale & Samuel Johnson. Yoko Ono & John Lennon. Alice Liddell & Lewis Carroll.... OL92825W
Blue Angel Blue Angel Francine Prose It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel.It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a p… OL92830W
A Changed Man A Changed Man Francine Prose On an unseasonably warm spring afternoon, a young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of World Brotherhood Watch, a human rights foundation headed by a charismatic Holocaust … OL92834W