Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Memory Book	Penelope J. Stokes	What do you find when you peer into a 75-year-old scrapbook and into your own future? How do you respond to the diary of a dead woman that tells the story of your own life?	OL8423718W
A Russian Diary	Anna Politkovskaya	Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia's most fearless journalists, was gunned down in a contract killing in Moscow in the fall of 2006. Just before her death, Politkovskaya completed this searing, intima…	OL8445523W
The Freedom Writers Diary	Freedom Writers,Erin Gruwell,The Freedom Writers,Zlata Filipović,Freedom Writers.	Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of th…	OL8526561W
Diary of a diet	Hannah Jones	Move over Julie Burchill 'cos there's a much bigger bitch in town. The book that eats the Size Zero debate for breakfast and coughs it back up with a side of comedy carbs, features the ordered rambli…	OL8582095W
A gift for Jo	Susan Beth Pfeffer	Jo March is given a journal in which to record her most private thoughts, but when her sisters read what she has written, it threatens to tear them apart.	OL860411W
Girl with Two Landscapes	Lena Jedwab Rozenberg	"In June, 1941, sixteen-year-old Lena Jedwab left Bialystok for summer camp in Russia - just when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.". "Stranded by war in a children's home in Russia, Lena agonized o…	OL8626340W
Tagebuch 1966-1971	Max Frisch	German and English (Sketchbook 1966-1971) editions	OL865558W
My First Years in the Fur Trade	George Nelson	"Captivated by the tales of adventure in the wild northwest told by the voyageurs, fifteen-year-old George Nelson left his family in southern Canada in 1802 and headed out to the Northwest Territory …	OL8693671W
Dear Canada	Julie Lawson	Kate's father is a builder for the Canadian Pacific Railway as it snakes across the mountains and through the Fraser Canyon. Everyone is excited about the "Iron Horse", but building the railroad is a…	OL871354W
It's Your Time You're Wasting	Frank Chalk	"Frank Chalk is a teacher in a fairly poor inner city school - a school where the kids get drunk, take drugs and beat up the teachers...when they can be bothered to turn up. He confiscates their porn…	OL8775446W
Spaniel Rage	Vanessa Davis	1 volume (unpaged) : 23 cm	OL8845206W
From Here to Paternity	Andrew Cullen	When his partner Kate discovered she was pregnant, Andrew Cullen decided to write the kind of book that he wanted to read but couldn't find anywhere, one that was truthful about the man's experience.…	OL8940138W
High Endeavours	Jimmy Cruickshank	x, 374 p., [16] p. of plates : 22 cm	OL9012796W
Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers	Louise Rennison	Let the overseas snogfest begin!Georgia and Jas are off to Hamburger-a-gogo land! Georgia plans to track down Masimo, the Italian-American dreamboat, but after a long week in America, she only succee…	OL92956W
Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas	Louise Rennison	The saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson continues as she travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limit…	OL92969W
The Red Leather Diary	Lily Koppel	Rescued from a Dumpster on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous, forgotten world of an extraordinary young woman.For more than half a century, the red leat…	OL9302606W
In Europa	Geert Mak	Geert Mak spent the year of 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence…	OL931630W
Charlie in the underworld	Charlie Small	A continuation of the purported journal of an eight-year-old adventurer, as he faces myriad strange creatures in the underground world of Subterranea.	OL9334441W
The top-secret journal of Fiona Claire Jardin	Robin Cruise	At the suggestion of her therapist, ten-year-old Fiona begins to keep a journal in which she records her fears, feelings, and gradual adjustment in the year after her parents get a divorce.	OL93880W
Diario	Christopher Columbus	Follows the first voyage of discovery made by Christopher Columbus through excerpts from the journal he kept.	OL99386W