Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
This Proud Heart	Pearl S. Buck	A truthful account of the sacrifices required for a burgeoning great artist. Also describes different types of artists. But they all have one thing in common. They must be completely selfish and dedi…	OL1140101W
The Mother	Germaine Delamain,Pearl S. Buck	Pearl Buck paints the portrait of a poor woman living in a remote village whose joys are few and hardships are many. As the ancient traditions, which she bases her philosophies upon, begin to collide…	OL1140106W
The Good Earth	Ruth Goode,Donald F. Roden,Stephen Colbourn,Nick Bertozzi,Pearl S. Buck,Ernst Simon	This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby,…	OL1140109W
The Chinese story teller	Pearl S. Buck	Grandmother tells her two grandchildren the story she heard in China that explains why dogs and cats hate each other.	OL1140117W
The Exile	Pearl S. Buck	The Exile is a memoir/biography about Pearl Buck's mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker (1857–1921), describing her life growing up in West Virginia and life in China as the wife of the Presbyteri…	OL1140125W
The good deed	Pearl S. Buck	Collection of ten stories ranging in time from World War II to the present.	OL1140144W
The illustrated Story Bible	Pearl S. Buck	"A Meridian book."	OL1140158W
The long love [by] John Sedges [pseud.]	Pearl S. Buck	This is the story of Edward Haslatt and Margaret Seaton's happy marriage, which spans forty years. Despite the overall happiness of their marriage, it is not without its conflicts. Edward has to lear…	OL1140171W
A gift for the children	Pearl S. Buck,Elaine Scull	Twenty-two stories recount the adventures of children at Christmas and other times of the year.	OL1140231W
Little Red	Pearl S. Buck	In China during World War II, a young boy makes a daring rescue attempt to free his father, a captured prisoner of the Japanese army.	OL1140238W
Death in the Castle	Pearl S. Buck	Sir Richard Sedgeley and Lady Mary are broke and without an heir to the castle that’s been in their family for centuries. Tourists are infrequent, and the offers they’ve received are not ones they ca…	OL1140272W
The living reed	Pearl S. Buck	The Living Reed follows four generations of one family, the Kims, beginning with Il-han and his father, both advisors to the royal family in Korea. When Japan invades and the queen is killed, Il-han …	OL1140281W
Portrait of a marriage	Pearl S. Buck	A wealthy painter finds his inspiration, and tumultuous love, in a girl he meets by chance At the turn of the century, an upper-class painter from Philadelphia goes searching for inspiration. He find…	OL1140291W
Great Short Stories of the World	Максим Горький,Colette,Frank O'Connor,Max Aub,Henry Lawson,Albert Camus,Corrado Alvaro,Robert Benchley,H. G. Wells,Isak Dinesen,Ernest Hemingway,Nigel Balchin,Sholem Aleichem,Katherine Anne Porter,Santha Rama Rau,Rabindranath Tagore,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Leo Kennedy,Joseph Conrad,Антон Павлович Чехов,Dorothy L. Sayers,Aldous Huxley,David Herbert Lawrence,Graham Greene,Nadine Gordimer,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,Alberto Moravia,O. Henry,Rumer Godden,John O'Hara,Truman Capote,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Gabrielle Roy,Unknown,Sally Benson,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Doris Lessing,Wallace Stegner,Guy de Maupassat,James Joyce,Luigi Pirandello,Eudora Welty,William Somerset Maugham,Mikhail Zoshchenko,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Montague Rhodes James,Paul Horgan,Saki,Thomas Head Raddall,Katherine Mansfield,Bertolt Brecht,Josh Gregory,Irwin Shaw,Marcel Aymé,Jean Stafford,Lilika Nakos,S. J. Perelman,Damon Runyon,Anatole France,Machado de Assis,Jessamyn West,Hjalmar Söderberg	The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak …	OL16048288W
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]	Bret Harte,Richard Connell,Heywood Broun,Ernest Hemingway,Marc Connelly,Mark Twain,Edith Wharton,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Jesse Stuart,John O'Hara,John Cheever,Ray Bradbury,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Stephen Vincent Benét,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Eudora Welty,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Pearl S. Buck,Jack London,Shirley Ann Grau,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Kay Boyle,Walter Van Tilburg Clark,Susan Glaspell,Damon Runyon,Readers Digest Editors	Contains: Winter Dreams What Stumped the Bluejays To Build a Fire A Jury of Her Peers The Storm The Pioneer Hep-Cat The Furnished Room I Can’t Breathe The Short Happy Life of Francis Macombe…	OL16481148W
The eternal wonder	Pearl S. Buck	"The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, …	OL19704275W
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze	Jade Snow Wong,Alfred Noyes,Phyllis McGinley,Alan Feinstein,Robert Frost,James Stephens,Carl Sandburg,Raymond R. Patterson,Ernest Hemingway,Kyorai,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Teresa Palomo Acosta,William Saroyan,Mary O'Neill,James Ramsey Ullman,Anne Terry White,Dorothy De Wit,Gary Soto,Rod Serling,Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,Mary Austin,Emily Dickinson,Paul Annixter,Washington Irving,Joan Aiken,James Dickey,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,O. Henry,Barbara Mahone,Oliver Herford,Will Hobbs,Margery Facklam,Alice Walker,Amy Tan,Lewis Carroll,E. E. Cummings,Arthur W. Ryder,Walt Whitman,Olivia E. Coolidge,H. N. Levitt,William Jay Smith,Nikki Giovanni,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Rudyard Kipling,Edwin Way Teale,Charles Dickens,Richard Lederer,Aesop,Piri Thomas,Langston Hughes,Jack Finney,Quentin Reynolds,Inea Bushnaq,Yao-Wen Li,Wilson Rawls,Lucille Clifton,Sam Selvon,Mildred D. Taylor,Edgar Allan Poe,Denise Chavez,Chief Dan George,Vachel Lindsay,Andrew A. Rooney,James Herriot,Josephine Preston Peabody,Blanche L. Serwer-Bernstein,Pura Belpré,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Carol Kendall,Alexander McCall Smith,Israel Horovitz,Isaac Asimov,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,James Whitcomb Riley,Courlander, Harold,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Ekkehart Malotki,Buson Taniguchi,Robert Service,Mari Sandoz,Shel Silverstein,Wendy Rose,Edward D. Hoch,Ernesto Galarza,Mai Vo-Dinh,Sarah Ann Leuthner,Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett,Juliet Piggott,Russell Baker,Theodore Roethke,Sumner Braunstein,Basho,Otsuji,William Shakespeare	Grades 7-9	OL24558115W