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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Fifty days of solitude	Doris Grumbach	Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. The result is a beautiful meditation abo…	OL114069W
Byron	Harold Nicolson	Lord Byron's first epic poem, "Childe Harold", was published in 1812. Only 12 years later after a life including exile, marriage and fatherhood, he died aged 36 at Missolonghi in Greece. First writte…	OL1155706W
A house in Fez	Suzanna Clarke	When Suzanna Clarke and her husband bought a dilapidated riad, or traditional courtyard house, in the Middle the ancient Medina of Fez, their friends thought they were mad. Located in a maze of donke…	OL11776478W
Woodsong	Gary Paulsen	For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the au…	OL14850222W
Monticello	Leonard Everett Fisher	Describes the planning, construction, and occupancy of Thomas Jefferson's dream home.	OL14865778W
A travel guide to Al Capone's Chicago	Diane Yancey	Describes what a visitor to Chicago in 1929 would find to see and do, including providing references to famous gangster activities and haunts.	OL14870516W
In het huis van Anne Frank	Menno Metselaar	Van veel foto's voorzien overzicht van de lotgevallen van de familie Frank voor en in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, van de gebeurtenissen rond het dagboek van Anne Frank en van de totstandkoming van het mu…	OL14910788W
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
What a year	Tomie dePaola	Tomie has an eventful first grade year with his sixth birthday party, his first Halloween trick-or-treating followed by Thanksgiving, his first Christmas pageant, and a late night New Year's celebrat…	OL15056757W
The underground heart	Ray González	"Returning home after a long absence is not always easy. For Ray Gonzalaz, it is more than a visit; it is a journey to the underground heart.". "He has lived in other parts of the country for more t…	OL15105429W
Monticello	Catherine Reef	This is a history of Monticello, the Virginia country estate, which Thomas Jefferson designed and built as his primary residence.	OL15281009W
Paradise	Larry McMurtry	"In 1999 Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a c…	OL15283913W
Poems	Robert Louis Stevenson	An illustrated collection of thirty-two popular poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, mostly from "A Child's Garden of Verses." Includes an introduction about the poet's life and work.	OL15403167W
Amsterdam & zijn schrijvers	J. H. van Geemert	Informatie in woord en beeld van plekken in Amsterdam die een rol spelen en leven en werk van literaire schrijvers.	OL15426418W
When all the world was young	Barbara Holland	In a memoir of growing up in Washington, D.C., during the 1940s and 1950s, the author of "Gentleman's Blood" and "Hail to the Chiefs" gives a sharp-eyed look at history, as well as insights into her …	OL15833980W
Noa Noa	Paul Gauguin	Paul Gauguin fled what he called "filthy Europe" in 1891 to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise, Tahiti. He painted 66 magnificent can vases during the first two years he spent there and kep…	OL15844326W
Bohemian Paris	Dan Franck	"Paris is a mythical city, a capital of the arts that has hosted some of the most legendary developments in world culture. Perhaps this reputation has never been so richly deserved as at the beginnin…	OL15860023W
So chic	Margaret Russell	From the Publisher: We are always curious and fascinated as to how the "other half" lives. What kind of furniture do Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor have in their Hollywood home? Is Ralph Lauren's …	OL15930820W
Without a map	Meredith Hall	"Meredith Hall grew up bonded to her insular New Hampshire community, comforted by the hallmarks of belonging: perfect attendance in Sunday school, classmates who seemed more like cousins, teachers w…	OL16027193W
Il Mare,Il Mito	Luigi Martellini	In una calda estate del 1883 Gabriele D'Annunzio, allora ventenne, trascorre la luna di miele a Porto San Giorgio con la Duchessina Maria Hardouin di Gallese. Un matrimonio contrastato, il loro, che …	OL16610208W