Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Les Liaisons dangereuses	Pierre Choderlos de Laclos	Cet ouvrage, ou plutot ce recueil, que le public trouvera peut-etre encore trop volumineux, ne contient pourtant que le plus petit nombre des lettres qui composaient la totalite de la correspondance …	OL1157252W
Shadow-box	Antonia Logue	The story of 1910s painter Mina Loy, onetime lover of Henri Matisse, and her doomed romance with boxer and art critic Arthur Cravan. It is told through correspondence between Loy and Cravan's friend,…	OL15845071W
Ketchup clouds	Annabel Pitcher	Zoe, a teenager in Bath, England, writes letters to a death-row inmate in Texas, hoping to find comfort in sharing her guilty secret over the death of a friend with someone who can never tell her fam…	OL17823673W
Color Purple / Meridian / Third Life of Grange Copeland	Alice Walker	Contains - [The Color Purple](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1815836W/Color_Purple) - Meridian - Third Life of Grange Copeland	OL18025207W
A Celibate Season	Carol Shields	A husband and wife exchange vows of celibacy when she has to move to the other side of the country for a job. Over a period of a year they exchange letters, telling each other how they are doing. The…	OL18330W
The lacuna	Barbara Kingsolver	"The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of th…	OL18545102W
Gilead	Marilynne Robinson	WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the so…	OL1875009W
The woman before me	R. E. Dugdall	Rose Wilks' life is shattered when her newborn baby Joel is admitted to intensive care. Emma Hatcher has all that Rose lacks. Beauty. A loving husband. A healthy son. Until tragedy strikes and Rose i…	OL19966367W
Late Arcade	Nathaniel Mackey	191 pages : 21 cm	OL20216908W
The Christmas Letters	Lee Smith	In The Christmas Letters, three generations of women reveal their stories of love and marriage in the letters they write to family and friends during the holidays. It's a down-home Christmas story …	OL2045968W
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creatur…	OL450063W
Thank you, Aunt Tallulah!	Carmela LaVigna Coyle	The many mishaps of Bettina, who is attending summer camp, and her Aunt Tallulah, who is living at the South Pole, are described in the letters they exchange.	OL5714467W
Mail-Orders	Sunka Simon	"While the advent and structure of electronic mail has been discussed in web caucuses, newspapers, hypertext theory, and communication theory, it has not yet been considered in conjunction with epist…	OL8358635W
The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 19…	OL875437W
The The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society	Annie Barrows,Mary Ann Shaffer	"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of t…	OL9334371W