Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Thomas Wolfe Thomas Wolfe Fritz Heinrich Ryssel ix, 117 pages 20 cm OL1342979W
Complete novels Complete novels John Cheever Here are the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for the first time. In these dazzling works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of not just the ascendant postwar elite but als… OL15580574W
Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane Miller, John E. The mother-daughter partnership that produced the Little House books has fascinated scholars and readers alike. Now, John E. Miller, one of America's leading authorities on Laura Ingalls Wilder and R… OL1970435W
One Christmas One Christmas Truman Capote One unforgettable Christmas, young Truman Capote is sent from his childhood home and his beloved cousin Miss Sook to New Orleans, to a father he's never met. Far from the warmth and familiarity of sm… OL1992175W
Life, Letters and Journals Life, Letters and Journals Ednah Dow Ednah Dow Cheney,Ednah Dow Littlehale 1824-1904 Cheney,Louisa May Alcott,Ednah D. Cheney,Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney,Ednah Dow 1824-1904 Cheney Excerpts from the author's diaries, written between the ages of eleven and thirteen, reveal her thoughts and feelings and her early poetic efforts. OL29984W
Christopher Smart's cat Christopher Smart's cat Igor Webb "This is a book about displacement, flight, settlement and resettlement, about life and death in the Pannonian plain, as Igor Webb writes, appropriating the old Roman name for today s Central Europe … OL32563846W
Big Sur Big Sur Tom Parker,Jack Kerouac *Big Sur* is a novel written by *Jack Kerouac*, that was published in 1962. The books perspective is told from Kerouac's alter ego *Jack Dulouz*. The novel describes Kerouac's frustration that he has… OL65938W
A Son of the Sun A Son of the Sun Jack London **A Son of the Sun** is a 1912 novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old Englis… OL74483W
Legend of a Suicide Legend of a Suicide David Vann Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that… OL8859342W