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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The executioner's song	Norman Mailer	Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 a…	OL10426574W
Mary the Queen	Hilda Lewis	Based on the life of Mary Tudor.	OL10569158W
Schindler's ark	Thomas Keneally	"Keneally wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a n…	OL10619574W
What Is the What	Dave Eggers	What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children--the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age …	OL114663W
My Brilliant Career	Miles Franklin	The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Bri…	OL1217011W
Bad Boy	Jim Thompson	At thirteen Jim Thompson was learning how to smoke cigars and ogle burlesque girls under the tutelage of his profane grandfather. A few years later, he was bellhopping at a hotel in Fort Worth, where…	OL13420877W
My Name is Aram	William Saroyan	A Huckleberry Finn like book.	OL1442074W
Village Teacher	Jack Sheffield	Another heartwarming, funny and moving tale about life in a small Yorkshire villageIt's 1980: recession and unemployment has hit Britain, a royal wedding is on the way, and the whole country is wonde…	OL14937727W
Alfred and Emily	Doris Lessing	I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without…	OL14949418W
Christ the Lord - Out of Egypt	Anne Rice	Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of CHRIST THE LORD, …	OL14962665W
Mistress Shakespeare	Karen Harper	A delicious and intriguing historical novel about the woman who was William Shakespeare's secret wife— by New York Times–bestselling author, Karen Harper.In Mistress Shakespeare, Elizabethan beauty A…	OL15078675W
The Accident Man	Tom Cain	Meet the Accident Man, Samuel Carver. Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. Drug-baron's helicopter develops mechanical failure mid-flight: reason being Samuel Carver. Terro…	OL15086236W
Rocky Mountain Fugitive	Ann Voss Peterson	Eric Lander hated to be tied down...But when Sarah Trask, the woman he'd left months ago, came to him for help solving a very personal murder, saying no wasn't even an option. Especially once he lear…	OL15174520W
Le città invisibili	Italo Calvino	"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venet…	OL15297W
Heresy	S. J. Parris	"Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite. Th…	OL15498811W
Brief gaudy hour	Margaret Campbell Barnes	The enigmatic Anne Boleyn comes to life in this charming, brilliant portrayal by acclaimed British novelist Margaret Campbell Barnes. The infamous love of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Eli…	OL156861W
Детство; Отрочество; Юность	Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoy,Isabel F. Hapgood,C. J. Hogarth,Isabel Florence Hapgood,Will Jonson,C J Hogarth	Written from 1852 to 1856, this autobiographical novel was Tolstoy's first publication. The early life of Nikolai, the son of wealthy landowner in Russia, is fully explored, slowly revealing this you…	OL15698346W
In the shadow of the banyan	Vaddey Ratner	Told from the tender perspective of a young girl who comes of age amid the Cambodian killing fields, this novel is based on the author's personal story. For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end o…	OL16134691W
The secrets of Mary Bowser	Lois Leveen	"Based on the true story of Mary Bowser, a freed slave who returns to Virginia to spy on the Confederates, The secrets of Mary Bowser is the powerful story of a woman who must sacrifice her freedom t…	OL16152781W
Abdication	Juliet Nicolson	In a tale set against a backdrop of pre-World War II turbulence in England and Edward VIII's scandalous affair, a fatherless chauffeur shares an undeclared love with a complex Oxford undergraduate, a…	OL16548004W