Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Brown girl, brownstones	Paule Marshall	"Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this is the story of a Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. She is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious …	OL15829612W
The New York Trilogy	Paul Auster	The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gri…	OL1682241W
Exit West	Mohsin Hamid	"In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet-- sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloist…	OL17635446W
Where I'm Calling From	Raymond Carver	By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprint…	OL1865876W
Letters to memory	Karen Tei Yamashita	Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters represen…	OL19718827W
El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca)	Jhumpa Lahiri	Gogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy starts to hate the awkward name and itches to cast it off, along with the inherited…	OL2001056W
Interpreter of maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri	Oorspr. titel: Interpreter of maladies. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin. Verhalen over Indiase emigranten in de Verenigde Staten.	OL2001058W
Carson McCullers	Carson McCullers	x, 667 pages ; 21 cm	OL20046269W
Neuromancer	William Gibson	The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimp…	OL27258W
Tales from Firozsha Baag	Rohinton Mistry	Tales From Firozsha Baag is a collection of 11 short stories by Rohinton Mistry about the residents of Firozsha Baag, a Parsi-dominated apartment complex in Mumbai. Mistry's first book, it was publis…	OL2980901W
The Girls in 3-B	Valerie Taylor	An honest, explosive novel that turns conventional ideas of 1950s feminity upside down, The Girls in 3-B reveals in page-turning detail the hidden world of mid-century America, showcasing predatory B…	OL4376662W
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt	Aimee Bender,Aimee Bender	A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows a strange man home, seeking total sexual abandon: He only wants …	OL46566W
Push	Tayari Jones,Sapphire	Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just on…	OL47292W
Junkie	William S. Burroughs,Oliver Harris	A semi-autobiographical account, narrated in a matter-of-fact manner, of the author’s life as a drug addict. The story ranges from the backstreets of New York to a drug rehabilitation hospital in Ken…	OL483570W
Tar Baby	Toni Morrison	Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat …	OL50557W
El Nombre del Mundo Es Bosque	Ursula K. Le Guin	Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered …	OL59797W
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	Ursula K. Le Guin	This is a collection containing, among other stories, the short story that started the Earthsea series." Along with "The Rule of Names," the story establishes the world and characters of Earthsea. Fi…	OL59861W
Portnoy's Complaint	Philip A. Roth	Though is caused outrage and controversy at the time of its publication Roth’s comic novel of sexual obsession and frustration is now widely regarded as one of the best novels of the twentieth centur…	OL74676W
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever	James Tiptree, Jr.	Is there any hope for us? For how many of us, me in my way, you in yours, are not our pens the weapons with which we can do something-a tiny something-about wrongs? Even if only to name them? A…	OL7910223W
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Díaz	Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he kee…	OL7990014W