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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A red death	Walter Mosley	It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS ag…	OL115566W
Lone wolf and cub	Goseki Kojima,Dana Lewis,Kazuo Koike	An epic samurai adventure.	OL11639596W
The Help	Kathryn Stockett	Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi…	OL11999891W
Demanding respect	Paul Douglas Lopes	How is it that comic books—the once-reviled form of lowbrow popular culture—are now the rage for Hollywood blockbusters, the basis for bestselling video games, and the inspiration for literary graphi…	OL13645253W
The heart is a lonely hunter	Carson McCullers	Set in 1930s Georgia, the novel centers around a deaf and mute man, John Singer. Singer has been devastated by the loss of his dear friend, Antonapoulos, who was committed to an asylum for bad behavi…	OL14864437W
The Pocket Essential F. Scott Fitzgerald	Richard Shephard	F Scott Fitzgerald is widely praised as the finest and most celebrated novelist of twentieth century America. His reputation is infinitely more lustrous since his untimely death than it was for much …	OL15172335W
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix	Lois Ahrens	One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going ev…	OL15190554W
A political biography of Henry Fielding	J. A. Downie	Although scholars agree that Henry Fielding subscribed to Revolution Principles, existing accounts of his political ideas are insufficiently aware of the ways in which the various strands of Whig pol…	OL15569553W
Il cimitero di Praga	Umberto Eco	"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In…	OL15653145W
Los enamoramientos	Javier Marías	Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely be…	OL15706330W
Love	Toni Morrison	From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida -- even L: all women obsessed by B…	OL15843891W
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
Mitko	Garth Greenwell	"A haunting novel of erotic obsession by a major new talent On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a stairwell beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex…	OL16141836W
The genius in my basement	Alexander Masters	"Simon Norton won a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad at the age of 15 and again at 16; folks said he was the greatest English mathematician since Sir Isaac Newton. A Daily Mail headline …	OL16142231W
Mont Plaisant	Alain Patrice Nganang,Amy B. Reid	In Cameroon in 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya, the Bamum leader cast into exile by French colonialists. Just nine years old and on the ve…	OL16154657W
The newlyweds	Nell Freudenberger	"The story of a Bengali woman who marries a man from Rochester, NY, after they meet online"--	OL16298866W
Every love story is a ghost story	D. T. Max	"The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with…	OL16558246W
The Childhood of Jesus	J. M. Coetzee	After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their new countr…	OL16805771W
色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年	村上春樹	Tsukuru Tazaki reexamines his simple life as he searches for his closest high school friends to discover why he was suddenly ostracized from their group. "Cuando Tsukuru Tazakiera adolescente, se …	OL16810121W
Revival	Stephen King	In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt when he looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later he is a man wh…	OL17200413W