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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Moonlight on linoleum	Terry Helwig	"Forced by her mother's instability to care for her five siblings, Helwig crafts a moving story of a mother she loved and struggled to understand"--	OL15941930W
The house in France	Gully Wells	"Set in Provence, London, and New York: a daughter's wonderfully evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather--Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. Ayer, …	OL16014013W
The genius in my basement	Alexander Masters	"Simon Norton won a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad at the age of 15 and again at 16; folks said he was the greatest English mathematician since Sir Isaac Newton. A Daily Mail headline …	OL16142231W
Butterfly in the typewriter	Cory MacLauchlin	"The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for two…	OL16489763W
Autobiographical writings	Mark Twain	"An intimate look at Mark Twain that only he himself could offerA must-have for all lovers of Mark Twain, this selection of his autobiographical writings opens a rare window onto the writer's life, p…	OL16521313W
Every love story is a ghost story	D. T. Max	"The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with…	OL16558246W
From Germany to Germany	Günter Grass	"In January 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gunter Grass made two New Year's resolutions: the first was to travel extensively in the newly united country and the second was to ke…	OL16607524W
The White Road	Edmund De Waal	"An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"--	OL17323213W
The Heming Way	Marty Beckerman	"More than fifty years have passed since the death of Ernest Hemingway, history's ultimate man, and young males today--obsessed with Facebook, Twitter, and Playstation--know nothing about his legenda…	OL17435816W
After visiting friends	Michael Hainey	"A decade in the writing, the haunting story of a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's death--a universal memoir about the secrets families keep and the role they play in making us w…	OL17805676W
El mundo amarillo	Albert Espinosa	El mundo amarillo es un mundo fantástico que quiero compartir contigo. Es el mundo de los descubrimientos que hice durante los diez años que estuve enfermo de cáncer. Es curioso, pero la fuerza, la v…	OL17914496W
The fortunes of Francis Barber	Michael Bundock	"This compelling book chronicles a young boy's journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London's literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life. Francis…	OL19663087W
Logical family	Armistead Maupin	Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Maupin reflects on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, sharing his candid search f…	OL19716738W
Dashiell Hammett	Sally Cline	"Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the fig…	OL19975922W
The Mockingbird next door	Marja Mills	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author has said almost nothing on the record. Journa…	OL19981950W
God'll cut you down	John Safran	"An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story about race, money, sex, and power in the modern American South"--	OL19987085W
Publishing	Gail Godwin	"A personal story of a writer's hunger to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then the long haul--for Gail Godwin, forty-five years of being a published writer and all that goes with it. A st…	OL19992388W
The Brothers Vonnegut	Ginger Gail Strand,Ginger Strand	"Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schen…	OL20012864W
The whole harmonium	Paul L. Mariani	"A perceptive, insightful biography of perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens, by an accomplished biographer and poet who traces Stevens's lifelong artisti…	OL20022387W
I'll tell you in person	Chloe Caldwell	"Praise for Chloe Caldwell: "I read it a couple of months ago in one can't-put-it-down-even-though-it's-the-middle-of-the-night sitting. It's as intense and interesting and clear-hearted as they come…	OL20040275W