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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A common life	David Laskin	In this splendid group portrait, David Laskin tells the stories of four friendships that helped to define the course of American literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and E…	OL109661W
The Diana Chronicles	Tina Brown	"Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person …	OL126919W
Friends	Sanjiva Wijesinha	Reminiscences by a doctor from Sri Lanka. Many of these stories were previously published as a column in the Sunday Island, Sri Lanka's national newspaper.	OL12758581W
Edvard Munch	Gerd Woll,Carla Lathe,Reinhold Heller,Dieter Buchhart,Frank Hoifodt,Iris Müller-Westermann,Albrecht Schröder,Albertina Wien,Christoph Asendorf,Edvard Munch,Arne Eggum,Marian Bisanz-Prakken,Antonia Hoerschelmann	Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und exp…	OL136192W
Letter to my daughter	Maya Angelou	For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around …	OL14951921W
Kate	Claudia Joseph	With her glossy dark hair, classic looks, natural appearance and cut-glass accent, Kate Middleton displays all the poise and breeding expected from the wife-to-be of the heir to the throne. Sophistic…	OL14981628W
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice	Allen Ginsberg	These are earliest journals and never-before-published poems of legendary Beat Generation avatar and poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept journals throughout his entire…	OL14997473W
The Pope's maestro	Gilbert Levine	"The story of the friendship between a Jewish-American conductor and Pope John Paul II This book offers the inspirational story of an unlikely friendship and the two men who collaborated in an extra…	OL15473544W
My life	Bill Clinton	President Bill Clinton's My life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard…	OL15838562W
Why women should rule the world	Dee Dee Myers	What would happen if women ruled the world?Everything could change, according to former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers. Politics would be more collegial. Businesses would be more productiv…	OL15845947W
Bushwomen	Laura Flanders	"The Bushwomen - the women appointed to the inner circle of the president's cabinet and sub-cabinet - are cast in the public mind as moderate, malleable, maverick, irrelevant or benign. Their careful…	OL15848614W
The Saddam tapes	Kevin M. Woods	"This study presents the annotated transcripts of Iraqi audio recordings of meetings between Saddam Hussein and his inner circle"-- "During the 2003 war that ended Saddam Hussein's regime, coalition…	OL16002621W
Magical Mystery Tours	Rosemary Kingsland,Tony Bramwell	Conversational, direct, and honest, the ultimate Beatles insider finally shares his own version of the frantic and glorious ascent of four boys from Liverpool lads to rock and roll kings.	OL16068360W
Washington and Hamilton	Tony Williams,Stephen F. Knott	From the Introduction... Theirs was an unlikely alliance, for George Washington and Alexander Hamilton could not have been more different. Washington was a gentleman farmer from the patrician colo…	OL17334101W
Confederate Cabinet Departments and Secretaries	Dennis L. Peterson	Thousands of books have been written covering every aspect of the Civil War. Yet scant attention has been given to the civilian government of the Confederacy. The most recent book on the subject was …	OL17365865W
The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady In The Van	Alan Bennett	"In The Clothes They Stood Up In, the staid Ransomes return from the opera to find their Regent's Park flat stripped bare - right down to the toilet-paper roll. Free of all their earthly belongings, …	OL17398155W
Starting over	Ken Sharp	Oral history of the making of Double Fantasy and account of Lennon's last days.	OL17690242W
Gandhi as disciple and mentor	Weber, Thomas	Thomas Weber's book comprises a series of biographical reflections about people who influenced Gandhi, and those who were, in turn, influenced by him. While the previous literature has tended to focu…	OL1775832W
After Woodstock	Elliot Tiber	During the summer of 69, Elliot Tiber helped start the gay liberation movement and saved the Woodstock Festival from cancellation. But some of the best and most significant events of Tiber s life did…	OL17873426W
The handoff	John Tournour	Describes the rise to fame of sports radio personality JT the Brick and the lessons he learned while trying to be strong and sticking by his close friend who was losing a battle with cancer.	OL17891201W