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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Doctor Olaf van Schuler's brain	Kirsten Menger-Anderson	Plagued by madness and guided by an intense desire to cure human affliction, each generation of the unusual van Schuler family is driven by the science of its day. As they make their way in the world…	OL11977464W
The Help	Kathryn Stockett	Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi…	OL11999891W
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
Super sad true love story	Gary Shteyngart,Adam Grupper,Ali Ahn	From the New York Times [review][1] written by Michiko Kakutani, June 2010: *"Gary Shteyngart’s wonderful new novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performanc…	OL15326463W
The illumination	Kevin Brockmeier	"What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination begins. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a f…	OL15662887W
Next to normal	Tom Kitt	"A contemporary musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. With provocative lyrics and an electrifying score of more than thirty original songs, Next to normal shows how far …	OL16113251W
Bring Up the Bodies	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the Bodies is a historical novel by Hilary Mantel; sequel to the award-winning [Wolf Hall;](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL464512W) and part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thoma…	OL16547664W
Hope to Die	James Patterson	Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family -- his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious c…	OL17079191W
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
I Know This Much Is True	Wally Lamb	E-book extra: "Who Is Wally Lamb?" The author recalls events surrounding the acclaimed publication of I Know This Much Is True. ( Not available in print editions of this work.)Wally Lamb's masterful …	OL1952159W
The Children's Book	A. S. Byatt	Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize--winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I year…	OL447886W
Rabbit is rich	John Updike	It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in pl…	OL463820W
The wide, wide world	Susan Warner	Ellen has difficulty believing that God will take care of her when her dying mother leaves her with the unloving Mrs. Dunscombe.	OL4874217W
The Twilight Collection (Twilight)	Stephenie Meyer	*a wonderful teenage vampire romance*	OL5720031W
Män som hatar kvinnor	Stieg Larsson	Mikael Blomkvist, ekonomireporter, döms till fängelse för förtal av finansmannen Wennerström, och beslutar sig för att ta time out från sitt jobb på tidskriften Millennium. I samma veva får han ett …	OL5784622W
Little Bee	Chris Cleave	A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.	OL5845214W
Men and Cartoons	Jonathan Lethem	Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers--nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as L…	OL74407W
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J. K. Rowling	Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be fa…	OL82586W
A Passage to India	E. M. Forster	When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape…	OL88883W
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