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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
It's a Battlefield	Graham Greene	Read as a condemnation of the British judicial system this dark novel follows the events the events that follow when a man kills an off-duty police officer who is attacking his wife.	OL106064W
Monsignor Quixote	Graham Greene	"A direct descendant of his famous namesake, Father Quixote is a humble parish priest. By chance he is advanced to Monsignor, resulting in furor in the bishopric. Quixote and his friend Sancho Zancas…	OL106066W
Tarzan the Invincible (Ace Classic SF, F-189)	Franke, Henry G., 3rd,Casper Van Dien,Edgar Rice Burroughs,Joe Jusko	**Tarzan, his monkey friend Nkima, and Chief Muviro and his faithful Waziri warriors prevent Soviet communists from looting the lost city of Opar. The story also prominently features Tarzan's lion al…	OL1418089W
Bijou Roy	Ronica Dhar	Traveling to India to scatter her late father's ashes, a grieving Bijou abandons her life in Washington, D.C., to pursue the truth about why her parents severed their ties to their native culture, an…	OL15973854W
Sita Valles	Leonor Figueiredo	"Sita Valles was said to have been shot at five in the morning on 1 August 1977, one shot in each leg, one shot in each arm. Her body fell into the ditch that had been dug for the purpose before the …	OL16186717W
Tanya and the Border Guard	Anita Deyneka	More than anything else, a young Russian girl wants to find a Bible to give to her Father, whose bible was lost to him during WWII years. Some young solders were instrumental in helping her to achiev…	OL1631817W
Karl Marx	Jonathan Sperber	Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived. Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five…	OL16806613W
A Very Principled Boy	Bradley, Mark A.	Duncan Chaplin Lee was a Rhodes Scholar, patriot, and descendent of one of America's most distinguished families—and possibly the best-placed mole ever to infiltrate U.S. intelligence operations. In …	OL16819484W
Manifest destiny	Rick Robinson	296 p. ; 24 cm	OL18774955W
Roads	Marina Antropow Cramer	"When Nazi forces occupy the beautiful coastal city of Yalta, Crimea, everything changes. Eighteen-year-old Filip has few options; he is a prime candidate for forced labor in Germany. His hurried mar…	OL19715517W
Marx	Corinne Maier	"Of the great political philosophers, few have had as profound and enduring an impact as Karl Marx. In this graphic biography by the creative super-team that brought us Freud, Maier and Simon provide…	OL19992875W
Red wolf	Liza Marklund	"An Accidental Death?" Reporter Annika Bengtzon is working on the story of a devastating crime when she hears that a journalist investigating the same incident has been killed. It appears to be a hit…	OL21733511W
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex	Stefan Aust	The Baader-Meinhof Group--later known as the Red Army Faction (RAF)--was a violent urban guerilla group which terrorized Germany in the 1970s and '80s, killing 47 people, wounding 93, taking 162 host…	OL2270709W
Karl Marx	Paul Thomas	As one of the most influential thinkers of the modern age, Karl Marx's political philosophy has resounded throughout politics and history, from the nineteenth century to the present day. In recent ti…	OL24762127W
Wang Ruofei zai yu zhong	Yang, Zhilin.	Biography of a Chinese communist leader Wang Jo-fei, 1896-1946.	OL2608084W
The man who stayed behind	Sidney Rittenberg	iii, 589 p. : 21 cm	OL3908015W
The trouble with Harry Hay	Stuart Timmons	In a galvanizing sweep through the Twentieth Century, award-winning historian Stuart Timmons chronicles the story of the man who founded the modern gay movement. After decades of searching and strugg…	OL4477054W
V.I. Lenin	Elyse Topalian	Traces the life and assesses the influence of the leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution who formulated the official Communist ideology and became the first head of the Soviet state.	OL5606798W
Plain girl	Arthur Miller	"Janice Sessions, the only daughter of a stylish old-fashioned New York Jew, has never been considered a beauty. She shares her need for love with Sam Fink, a passionate Communist, while the crisis i…	OL66321W
El último general	Miguel Azpúrua E.	Esta es una historia apasionante sobre un revolucionario internacionaiista venezolano, que a grandes rasgos, luchó con el general Sandino en Nicargua, con el general Lázaro Cárdenas en Mexico, tomó l…	OL7825399W