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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Sorta like a rockstar Sorta like a rockstar Matthew Quick Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean … OL11904006W
Love may fail Love may fail Matthew Quick Escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, Portia Kane returns to the South Jersey home of her youth and resolves to save herself by assisting a beloved English teacher wh… OL20001677W
Every exquisite thing Every exquisite thing Matthew Quick Nanette O'Hare, a star student and athlete, is given a mysterious out-of-print cult classic novel by her beloved teacher that sparks the rebel within her, but as she befriends the reclusive author an… OL20026873W
The reason you're alive The reason you're alive Matthew Quick Sixty-eight-year-old David has a brain tumor that he attributes to Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating the name of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipli… OL20059212W
Boy21 Boy21 Matthew Quick Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks… OL20980239W
The silver linings playbook The silver linings playbook Matthew Quick Pat Peoples knows that life doesn't always go according to plan, but he's determined to get his back on track. After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, Pat is staying with his parents and trying to l… OL20982724W
Liefde kan mislukken Liefde kan mislukken Matthew Quick Een jonge vrouw laat haar comfortabele leventje achter zich en keert terug naar haar moeder en de omgeving van haar jeugd, waar zij op zoek gaat naar haar leraar Engels die gedesillusioneerd thuis zi… OL24701592W
Sorta like a rockstar Sorta like a rockstar Matthew Quick Amber Appleton has a lot to be thankful for. OR Amber Appleton has never had it easy. Both are true. On the one hand, she's got the best friends a seventeen year old could ask for and a loyal dog, Bo… OL24717911W
Lŏbŭ mei p'eil Lŏbŭ mei p'eil Matthew Quick Portia Kane is escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, running back to South Jersey, a place that remains largely unchanged from the years of her unhappy youth. Looking… OL29316247W