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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Strudel stories	Joanne Rocklin	Seven generations of a Jewish family hear stories of their family history, all told while making apple strudel.	OL121004W
Gauchos judíos	Alberto Gerchunoff	"Reprint, with minor changes, of the 1955 translation of Gerchunoff's 1910 classic volume about Jewish immigrants in rural Argentina. Twenty-six vignettes, with some inter-related characters, tell st…	OL1308236W
The Unspoken Truth	Angelica Garnett	The Unspoken Truth is an intense, delicate and evocative quartet of autobiographical stories by one of Bloomsbury's inner circle, and one of its last survivors, the daughter of Vanessa Bell and Dunca…	OL14992763W
Verbrechen	Ferdinand von Schirach	Ferdinand von Schirach hat es in seinem Beruf alltäglich mit Menschen zu tun, die Extremes getan oder erlebt haben. Das Ungeheuerliche ist bei ihm der Normalfall. Er vertritt Unschuldige, die mit dem…	OL15367614W
Snow in August	Pete Hamill	In Brooklyn in the late 1940s, adolescent Michael Devlin is a dutiful son to his widowed mother and a conscientious altar boy at the parish church. One day, he meets Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a chance enco…	OL15845208W
Tales from the Arabian nights [21 stories]	Richard Francis Burton	Magic and marvels await you in Tales from the Arabian Nights, a collection of twenty of the best-known stories from the book that western readers have known for over three centuries as The Arbian Nig…	OL15936336W
Novelists	Craig Boyko	"Novelists: the soul of an age, certainly. Brilliant? Perhaps. Yet aren't they also doddering, petulant, pedantic, knockkneed, skittish, and thunderingly insecure--resentful, awkward, annoying--deman…	OL17840499W
Mr. Tall	Tony Earley	A collection of short stories and one novella features tales about a widow being visited by Bigfoot and an elderly woman plagued by Jesse James' ghost.	OL17872914W
Further joy	John Brandon	An anthology of eleven stories features a range of protagonists, from gamblers and psychics to wanderers and priests, on the verge of discovering the limits of their choices in extreme environments.	OL19981634W
The Martini Shot	George P. Pelecanos	"Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance…	OL19988999W
Make something up	Chuck Palahniuk	"Stories you'll never forget--just try--from literature's favorite transgressive author. Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (…	OL19999551W
The beat goes on	Ian Rankin	"Brilliant, irascible and frequently frustrating to both his friends and his long-suffering bosses, John Rebus has made the dark places of Edinburgh his home for over two decades. THE BEAT GOES ON co…	OL20005628W
The new prophets of capital	Nicole Marie Aschoff	Mythmaking is as central to sustaining our present economy as profit-making. In the 1980s, Thatcher and Reagan's stories about welfare queens, greedy workers and the beauty of the free market cleared…	OL20006418W
Today is not your day	Marian Thurm	With her fourth collection, acclaimed short story writer Marian Thurm brings her darkly comic sense of humor to a memorable set of new characters-every one of whom is brought to vivid life under her …	OL21540125W
Die Taube	Patrick Süskind	Een eenzame teruggetrokken levende bewaker bij een bank raakt volkomen uit zijn gewone doen als er op een dag een dode duif voor zijn huisdeur ligt.	OL2182299W
The fifth lash & other stories	Anis Shivani	Short stories.	OL24264841W
De kermis van Gravezuid	Hannah van Wieringen	De jaarlijkse kermis heeft een grote impact op het leven van enkele bewoners van een klein dorpje in Noord-Holland.	OL24713047W
Die Bibel	Erich Jooß	Kinder lernen die Bibel kennen: Die Bibel - nicht nur ein Buch für uns Erwachsene. Sie möchte genauso alle Kinder ansprechen und bietet eine Vielzahl von interessanten und lehrreichen Tatsachenberich…	OL27014421W
The ancestor tree	T. Obinkaram Echewa	Saddened by the death of their special friend, the very old man who told them stories and jokes, the village children decide to go against custom and plant a tree for him in the Forest of the Ancesto…	OL3908970W
Te Kaihau	Keri Hulme	Belletristik : Neuseeland/Maori ; Erzählungen.	OL3991461W