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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Vol de nuit	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	Night Flight (French title: Vol de Nuit) is the second novel by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in 1931 and became an international bestseller. The book…	OL10267W
Mindhunter	John E. Douglas,Mark Olshaker	Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of t…	OL119421W
Journey of a thousand miles	Lang Lang,Lang Lang,David Ritz	"Number One" was a phrase my father--and, for that matter, my mother--repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents' friends and by their friends' children. Whenever adults discu…	OL12305745W
R. E. Lee	Douglas Southall Freeman,Richard Harwell	Douglas Freeman's biography, in its 4 volumes and 2421 pages, is not only comprehensive, but remains to this day the best life of Lee ever published, even if sometimes producing the impression the ma…	OL1863304W
Outlaw Woman	Jennifer Baumgardner,Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz	In 1968, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz became a founding member of the early women's liberation movement. Along with a small group of dedicated women, she produced the seminal journal series, *No More Fun and…	OL2655617W
American Indian women, telling their lives	Kathleen Mullen Sands,Gretchen M. Bataille	A study of American Indian women's autobiographies demonstrates their distinct status as literature, analyzing important works in the genre and examining their cultural and political significance. In…	OL2972821W
Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen #1)	Ernestine Gilbreth Carey,Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.	The unforgettable story of the Gilbreth clan as told by two of its members. In this endearing, amusing memoir, siblings Frank Jr. and Ernestine capture the hilarity and heart of growing up in an over…	OL36520026W
Robert Creeley	Maria Trambacco,Ekbert Faas	"Robert Creeley, one of the most revered voices of contemporary American poetry, has attained an almost legendary status, based on his role in such avant-garde movements as Black Mountain, Tish, and …	OL3857844W
Manson in his own words	Charles Manson,Nuel Emmons	"The myth of Charles Manson is not likely to survive the impact of his own words,” Nuel Emmons writes in the introduction to Manson In His Own Words, the shocking true confessions that lay bare the…	OL5279907W
My heart will cross this ocean	Craig Wolff,Kadiatou Diallo	Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen. T…	OL6033534W
The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky	Mir Tamim Ansary,Farah Ahmedi	When ABC News\'s Good Morning America asked its viewers to write essays describing true-life experiences about romance, adventure, loss, and overcoming tremendous odds, the network never imagined rec…	OL8455180W
God grew tired of us	Michael Sweeney,John Bul Dau	"Lost Boy" John Bul Dau's harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicled in this inspiring memoir and featured in a…	OL8808581W
Leaving Mother Lake	Christine Mathieu,Yang Erche Namu,Yang Erche Namu	The haunting memoir of a girl growing up in the Moso country in the Himalayas--a unique matrilineal society. But even in this land of women, familial tension is eternal. Namu is a strong-willed daugh…	OL9253098W
Mountains Beyond Mountains	Tracy Kidder	At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-c…	OL98216W