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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Rouse up o young men of the new age!	Kenzaburō Ōe	"K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, the oldest of whom was born with a brain anomaly that has left him mentally disabled. A highly cerebral man who often retreats …	OL10339365W
Furious gulf	Gregory Benford	From back cover Warner paperback February 2005: Trying to escape the relentless mechs, the last humans from the planet Snowglade take their ancient starship on a dangerous course straight into the…	OL108291W
If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever?	M. E. Kerr	Alan, a popular senior high school student, faces painful changes after a new student, Duncan "Doomed" Stein, comes to town and starts an influential underground newspaper.	OL108489W
Mr. Scarborough's Family	Anthony Trollope	It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they…	OL109858W
Bud, Not Buddy	Christopher Paul Curtis,Alberto Jimenez Rioja,aa,Reginald André Jackson	It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own i…	OL115602W
Lord of the Nutcracker men	Iain Lawrence	Ten-year-old Johnny eagerly plays at war with the army of nutcracker soldiers his toymaker father whittles for him. He demolishes imaginary foes. But in 1914 Germany looms as the real enemy of Europe…	OL116319W
Goblins!	Royce Buckingham	Sneaking out into the woods near the Canadian border, Sam and PJ come across what looks like a mutant gorilla with a bad attitude. But its no ape its a goblin, and thousands more of them live under t…	OL11876591W
Never Mind	Edward St Aubyn	Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner Never Mind, the first installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose …	OL12091223W
The Storm	Frederick Buechner	The Boston Globe calls Frederick Buechner "one of our finest writers." USA Today says he's "one of our most original storytellers." Now this acclaimed author gives us his most beguiling novel yet--a …	OL12935W
Nati due volte	Giuseppe Pontiggia	"The first major book by one of Italy's most distinguished novelists to appear in America - an award-winning fictional memoir of a man's transfiguring experiences raising a son whose disabilities wer…	OL133409W
King Blood	Jim Thompson	Blood’s thicker than water and that’s doubly true for the King family who has built its considerable fortune through decades of the most ruthless violence and bloodshed that Oklahoma has ever seen. I…	OL13420883W
Tinkers	Paul Harding	An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once…	OL13609372W
Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet	Jamie Ford	"Sentimental, heartfelt....the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a sha…	OL13646885W
Beneath the Lion's Gaze	Maaza Mengiste	An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution. This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, …	OL13852619W
Until I find you	John Irving	Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns -- his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Ali…	OL14858712W
The Lord of Death	Eliot Pattison	Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. He is ferrying a corpse on muleback over th…	OL14924899W
Bullet point	Peter Abrahams	Wyatt never really thought much about his dad—a hardened criminal, a lifer in a prison somewhere on the other side of the state. But then the economy had to go and tank, and the community had to go a…	OL14953755W
His Secret Christmas Baby	Rita B. Herron	Investigator Derrick McKinney's quiet bachelor life was shattered when the son he just learned existed was abducted right out from under the watchful eye of his beautiful guardian. And although she w…	OL15189996W
Daddy's little scout	Janet Bingham	Previously published: London : Scholastic Children's Books, 2008 under the title, A new home for Little Fox. Little Fox and his father look at other woodland animals' homes, then make a new den for …	OL15529771W
Pojken som sov med snö i sin säng	Henning Mankell	Now almost fourteen, Joel becomes a local hero to his small Swedish town when he saves an old man from freezing to death in the woods.	OL158653W