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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Les années	Annie Ernaux	"Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the le…	OL102389W
A common life	David Laskin	In this splendid group portrait, David Laskin tells the stories of four friendships that helped to define the course of American literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and E…	OL109661W
Hazlitt	R. L. Brett	40 p. : 22 cm	OL1312288W
Venices	Paul Morand	This autobiography is a poetic evocation of certain scenes of Morand's varied encounters & experiences. All this is filtered through the one constant in his life - the one place to which he would alw…	OL1331587W
Louisa May Alcott	Harriet Reisen	A biography of Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) that provides a solid description of the life and thoughts of the author most famous for "Little Women" (1968).	OL13770103W
The land remembers	Ben Logan	The Land Remembers is the autobiographical account of Ben Logan, first published in 1975 by Heartland Press. Logan was raised on his family's farm, Seldom Seen, in the southwest Wisconsin hill countr…	OL14852546W
An American childhood	Annie Dillard	A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in t…	OL14857922W
Letter to my daughter	Maya Angelou	For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around …	OL14951921W
Closing Time	Joe Queenan	A deeply funny and affecting memoir about a great escape from a childhood of povertyJoe Queenans acerbic riffs on movies, sports, books, politics, and many of the least forgivable phenomena of pop cu…	OL14951996W
It's been a good life	Isaac Asimov	"As one of the most gifted and prolific writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Asimov has become a literary legend. In reflecting on his years and his career in the last volume of his autobiographic…	OL14959279W
The Education of a British-Protected Child	Chinua Achebe	From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays--his first new book in more than twenty years.Chinua…	OL14966094W
Dichter leben	Frederik Hetmann,Harald Tondern,Ingrid Röbbelen	Lernen? Geht doch. Mit der »etwas anderen« Literaturgeschichte. Eine Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur mit Viten, Lesevorschlägen und Besichtigungstipps. Wie waren die Dichter eigentlich…	OL15010158W
Some Girls Do	Jacinta Tynan	For every woman who has been a teenager or is one now, a funny, quirky and revealing collection of stories by well-known Australian women writers about their teen years.You've read their bestselling …	OL15186027W
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm	Roger Deakin	For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal t…	OL15188844W
O caderno	José Saramago	"Provocative and lyrical, ... on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, the author started jotting down his reflections on the world in which he lives. He evokes life in his beloved city of Li…	OL15320723W
Wulidtu hunāk, wulidtu hunā	Murīd Barghūthī	Short stories.	OL15635118W
Fowl weather	Bob Tarte	A reflection on the unexpected benefits of living with an exuberant menagerie of thirty-nine animals--including parrots, ducks, geese, parakeets, rabbits, cats, hens, a dove, and a turkey--describes …	OL15811892W
"There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me	Eva Gabrielsson	Here is the real inside story—not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism, w…	OL15813553W
The other side of me	Sidney Sheldon	Author of over a dozen bestsellers, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and creator of some of television's greatest hits, Sheldon has seen and done it all, and now in this candid memoir, he shares h…	OL15858171W
Jealousy	Catherine Millet	When Catherine M. discovers a letter in their apartment that makes it clear Jacques is seriously involved with someone else, she must reconcile her need for freedom and sexual liberation with the ver…	OL15889398W