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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
NAPOLEON ON ELBA	Sir Neil Campbell,Jonathan North	256 pages : 24 cm	OL13634355W
Lambrusco	Ellen Cooney,Ellen Cooney	The year is 1943. The Nazis have invaded Italy; American troops have landed. At Aldo's restaurant on the Adriatic coast, Lucia Fantini entertained customers for years with her marvelous opera singing…	OL16026211W
The Tudors	Anne Gracie,Michael Hirst	A king torn between two women could lead to a kingdom torn. Troubled by religious unrest in his kingdom and changing alliances with other countries, weighing most on King Henry VIII of England's mind…	OL16066125W
The Jester	James Patterson,Andrew Gross	Hugh De Luc returns from the Crusades to discover that his terrifying nightmare has just begun. Merciless killers have slain his young son, kidnapped his wife, Sophie, and destroyed his town in their…	OL167161W
R. E. Lee	Douglas Southall Freeman,Richard Harwell	Douglas Freeman's biography, in its 4 volumes and 2421 pages, is not only comprehensive, but remains to this day the best life of Lee ever published, even if sometimes producing the impression the ma…	OL1863304W
After the Ball	Patricia Beard	Glamorous, cultured, and ambitious -- but fatally young and naïve -- James Hazen Hyde was twenty-three when he inherited the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society in …	OL1929473W
A chain of voices	André Philippus Brink,Andre Brink	On a farm near the Cape Colony in the early nineteenth century, a slave rebellion kills three and leaves eleven others condemned to death. The rebellion’s leader, Galant, was raised alongside the boy…	OL1965328W
Painting the Darkness	Robert Goddard	Eleven years after the heir to a baronetcy supposedly committed suicide, the appearance of a man claiming to be the very same person touches off a bitter struggle over the inheritance money	OL1984956W
Charles the Bold	Werner Paravicini (foreword),Richard Vaughan,Vaughan, Richard	Synopsis Charles the Bold (1467-1477) was the last of the great Dukes of Burgundy. This historical and biographical work assesses his personality and his role as a ruler, and discusses his relatio…	OL3452262W
The Conquest	Jayna J. Brown,Oscar Micheaux	*The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer*, portrays the aspirations and struggles of a black homesteader named Oscar Devereaux. Born on a small farm near Cairo, Illinois, one of thirteen child…	OL3462389W
Blood on the gallows	Joseph A. West,Ralph Compton	Former big-city detective John McBride is an easygoing man - until people rub him the wrong way. So he's less than please when he sees three hanged men outside the town of Rest and Be Thankful, and t…	OL3622875W
Le Comte de Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	xxix, 608 pages ; 21 cm	OL36287W
The Known World	Antonio Fernandez Lera,Edward P. Jones	E-Book exclusive extras: "Inside The Known World: An Interview with Edward P. Jones"; Reading Group GuideHenry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost …	OL4112932W
Frank Tobuk, Evansville	Frank Tobuk,Curt Madison,Yvonne Yarber	An Eskimo tells in his own words of his life in Alaska from 1900 to the present.	OL5626998W
The iron curtain	Vaughan, Robert,Robert Vaughan	Volume six of Robert Vaughan's American Chronicles begins with the emergence of a new America from the fiery furor of World War II; an America ready and eager to grasp the future. But the country ca…	OL5685617W
Maximes	Stuart D. Warner,Stéphane Douard,François duc de La Rochefoucauld,Jean Rohou	"The translation of this bilingual edition of La Rochefoucauld's Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (long known in English simply as the Maxims) is the first to appear in forty years. It is c…	OL571112W
Letters from an age of reason	Nora Hague	"Nora Hague's debut novel, Letters from an Age of Reason, is set amid two historical hotbeds of racial tension, moral hypocrisy, and shifting sexual convention. The years in question are the tumultuo…	OL6225741W
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African	Robert J. Allison,Olaudah Equiano,Rebecka Rutledge Fisher	The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and late…	OL743333W
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
The Reverse of the Medal	Patrick O'Brian,Patrick Ob4brian	First edition in Polish.	OL9697527W