Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition	Edward Rowe Snow,Phyllis McGinley,John N. Morris,Sarah Kemble Knight,J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur,James Russell Lowell,Robert Frost,Edwin Arlington Robinson,T. S. Eliot,Carl Sandburg,Margaret Walker,Elinor Wylie,Sidney Lanier,Jonathan Edwards,Richard Eberhart,William Bradford,William Cullen Bryant,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Ernest Hemingway,Archibald MacLeish,Teresa Palomo Acosta,Katherine Anne Porter,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer,John Greenleaf Whittier,Sara Teasdale,Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Cotton Mather,Gary Soto,Dorothy Parker,Emily Dickinson,Denise Levertov,Ezra Pound,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Abraham Lincoln,Anne Bradstreet,Mollie Dorsey Sanford,Kurt Vonnegut,Edith Wharton,Lewis Thomas,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Paul Laurence Dunbar,William Faulkner,William Carlos Williams,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Carson McCullers,Adrienne Rich,Willa Cather,Maxine Kumin,Walt Whitman,Bernard Malamud,Arna Wendell Bontemps,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Randall Jarrell,David Wagoner,Claude McKay,Stephen Crane,Amiri Baraka,Sherwood Anderson,Richard Wilbur,John Steinbeck,N. Scott Momaday,Benjamin Franklin,Frederick Douglass,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,William Least Heat Moon,Robert E. Lee,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Wallace Stevens,William Stafford,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Chief Joseph,Tennessee Williams,James E. Miller, Jr.,Edgar Allan Poe,Howard Nemerov,Elizabeth Bishop,Amy Lowell,Francis Wright,Philip Morin Freneau,Jean Toomer,Thomas Paine,Galway Kinnell,Eudora Welty,Robert Hayden,Ralph Ellison,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James Weldon Johnson,Isaac Asimov,Flannery O'Connor,Kate Chopin,James Masao Mitsui,James Baldwin,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Karl Jay Shapiro,Patrick F. McManus,May Swenson,Edgar Lee Masters,Jim Wayne Miller,Robert Anderson,Countee Cullen,Sylvia Plath,Seattle Chief,Lorraine Hansberry,Louise Bogan,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Thomas Jefferson,Robert Lowell,Sabine R. Ulibarrí,Marianne Moore,Lawson Fusao Inada,Phillis Wheatley,Vern Rutsala,Kerry M. Wood,Eugenia Collier,John Smith,William Byrd II,James W. C. Pennington,Satanta,Lillian Hellman,Mona Van Duyn,Richard Rodriguez,Mari Evans,Theodore Roethke,John Crowe Ransom,Taylor, Edward,Robinson Jeffers	Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibra…	OL15164554W
Lovelier than daylight	Rosslyn Elliott	"When her nieces and nephews fall victim to their alcoholic father's mistakes, Susanna Hanby vows to rescue them. In 1875, Susanna Hanby travels to her sister's Ohio farm--but no one is there. Her si…	OL16714794W
Dealing with tattling	Don Middleton	Explains what tattling is, why people do it, and what the consequences might be; then suggests alternatives to this behavior and ways to resolve problems created by talebearing.	OL1816809W
Alice Dodd and the spirit of truth	Catherine Frey Murphy	While spending the summer in a vacation cabin with her aunt and three-year-old cousin, a young girl finds herself more and more involved in a series of lies and deceptions.	OL2042065W
The Go-Between	L. P. Hartley	Narrated as a memoir, this excellent novel tells the story of one summer at the turn of the century when the narrator was a young boy. The boy spends the summer in question as a guest at a country es…	OL2047674W
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition	Jorge Luis Borges,Alice Walker,William Faulkner,Lewis Carroll,X. J. Kennedy,Emily Brontë,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Tennessee Williams,Edgar Allan Poe,James Joyce,Kate Chopin,Sylvia Plath,Jack London,Shirley Jackson,Margaret Atwood,Chinua Achebe,Dana Gioia,William Shakespeare	Fiction. Talking with Amy Tan -- Reading a story -- The art of fiction -- Types of short fiction -- Death has an appointment in Samarra / Sufi Legend -- The north wind and the sun / Aesop -- Th…	OL26371856W
The smile	Joy Cowley	Baby's smile makes everyone's day a little brighter.	OL29245231W
Hiding from love	John Sims Townsend	When you experience emotional injury, fear, shame, or pride your first impulse is to hide the hurting parts of yourself from God, others, even yourself. Often you've learned these hiding patterns dur…	OL2958139W
Out of here	Sandy Asher	The lives of Stacey Lawrence and other seniors at Oakview High School in Eli, Missouri, are interconnected in sometimes unseen ways as they move from the first day of school to graduation day.	OL3191429W
High performance through communicating information	Lucy Rosen	Discusses communication skills and their importance in school and at work.	OL3233094W
Change your mind, change your life	Gerald Jampolsky,Gerald G. Jampolsky	"Most of us want to change the world, but only a few of us are willing to change our own minds!" Yet there is a shift taking place in the world, where more and more people are recognizing that it…	OL3260771W
Searching for Atticus	Jan Marino	As she tries to help her father deal with his memories of Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Tess finds comfort in her friendship with the sensible Selina and distraction in her infatuation with the dangerous…	OL3358749W
Ironman	Chris Crutcher	While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.	OL3454746W
Hi!	Ann Herbert Scott	While waiting in line with her mother at the post office, Margarita greets the patrons who come in carrying different types of mail.	OL3520186W
The Campus Life guide to making and keeping friends	Chris Lutes	A guide for teenagers from a Christian perspective to making and keeping friends.	OL4464723W
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of t…	OL455305W
Fourth Grade Rats	Jerry Spinelli	A fast, fun, friendship read from the Newbery-award winning author of Maniac Magee. Fourth graders are tough. They aren't afraid of spiders. They say no to their moms. They push first graders off …	OL77089W
Six Great Modern Plays	Sean O'Casey,Henrik Ibsen,Антон Павлович Чехов,Arthur Miller,George Bernard Shaw,Tennessee Williams	Three sisters, by A. Chekhov. The master builder, by H. Ibsen. Mrs. Warren's profession, by G.B. Shaw. Red roses for me, by S. O'Casey. All my sons, by A. Miller. [Glass menagerie](https://…	OL8468119W
Smoky Night	Eve Bunting	When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.	OL97618W