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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The magic of Provence	Yvone Lenard	When Yvone Lenard returned to her native France and purchased a house in a hilltop village of Provence, an enchanted world of food, wines, and unusual adventures--including chicken rustling, flirtati…	OL100245W
Taking liberty	Ann Rinaldi	After serving Martha Washington loyally for twenty years, Oney Judge realizes that she is just a slave and must decide if she will run away to find true freedom.	OL112471W
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
With Hemingway	Arnold Samuelson	Presents a portrait of Hemingway as seen through the eyes of a Midwestern farm boy living with the family and fishing, talking, and writing with Hemingway.	OL122623W
Kitchen Privileges	Mary Higgins Clark	Lively memior of mystery author Mary Higgins Clark. She had been a secretary, stewardess, copywriter, radio writer, and bestselling author. The book has a humorous touch even when discussing tragi…	OL13048W
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
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
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
Narrow Margins	Marie Browne	Narrow Margins is the true story of one family's journey from the financial crash of the Rover car company to an alternative and better lifestyle. Faced with the loss of everything, the house, the ca…	OL15173068W
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
Martin's Hundred	Ivor Noël Hume	This first-hand account examines an important excavation in American historical archaeology--the discovery of a lost plantation, providing extensive evidence of English colonial life in early sevente…	OL15843993W
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
Imagined London	Anna Quindlen	"This book is a tale of three cities: the fictional London that lives in the pages of writers from Shakespeare to P. D. James and Martin Amis; the historical metropolis where so many immortal authors…	OL15854409W
Four dreamers and Emily	Stevie Davies	Four chaste ladies, one of them a 60-year-old virgin, discover passionate love while attending a stuffy conference on Emily Bronte. A look at the influence of literature on love.	OL15855347W
Boldt Castle	Paul Malo	"Each summer a quarter-million people visit Boldt Castle and learn its tragic love story. Louise Boldt, forty-one years old and mother of two, died just as her husband was attaining great wealth and …	OL15905686W
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