Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
American Women Writers	Edith Wharton,Louisa May Alcott,Kate Chopin,Edna Ferber	[The Awakening][1] / Kate Chopin -- A whisper in the dark / Louisa May Alcott -- Selected stories / Edna Ferber -- The house of mirth (an extract) / Edith Wharton. [1]: https://openlibrary.…	OL14943618W
The Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 [8 stories]	Антон Павлович Чехов	Collection contains: [Степь](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL55442W) Panpipes -- The kiss -- Verochka -- The name-day party -- A dreary story -- Gusev -- [Дуэль](https://openlibrary.org/works…	OL15237610W
Novels 1942-1952 (Cannery Row / East of Eden / Moon is Down / Pearl)	John Steinbeck	John Steinbeck has earned a place as one of America's most enduringly popular writers. Here, in the third volume of The Library of America's authoritative edition of his writings, are four novels tha…	OL15334093W
The Life and Times of Bubba Lee Boatbum	Terry P. Rizzuti,R. E. Armstrong	The Life and Times of Bubba Lee Boatbum is a mid-life, rite-of-passage novel that addresses contemporary 21st century society, largely through linguistic humor but also direct social dialog and com…	OL15394490W
Novels (La chute / L'Étranger)	Albert Camus	Contains: [La chute](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1230631W) L'Étranger	OL16033130W
Bring Up the Bodies	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the Bodies is a historical novel by Hilary Mantel; sequel to the award-winning [Wolf Hall;](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL464512W) and part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thoma…	OL16547664W
The Awakening & Other Stories (Athenaise / At the 'cadian Ball / Awakening / Belle Zoraide / Desire…	Kate Chopin	Contains: [The Awakening][1] Wiser than a god. -- A point at issue! -- A shameful affair. -- Miss McEnders. -- At the 'Cadian Ball. -- [Desiree's Baby][2] Madame Celestin's divorce. -- A L…	OL16551541W
There but for the	Ali Smith	There But For The is a 2011 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton and in the US by Pantheon, and set in 2009 and 2010 in Greenwich, London. It was cited by …	OL16633753W
Los informantes	Juan Gabriel Vásquez	When Gabriel Santoro's biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a public intellectual and famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to provoke …	OL1663451W
The Host in the Attic	Rohan Quine	**THE HOST IN THE ATTIC, a novella by Rohan Quine http://www.rohanquine.com/the-host-in-the-attic The Host in the Attic by Rohan Quine is a hologram of Oscar Wilde’s *The Picture o…	OL17819375W
Normal People	Irene Aldasoro,Sally Rooney,Alice Birch,Mark O'Rowe	At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes…	OL20150260W
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	The second book in John Steinbeck’s labor trilogy, Of Mice and Men is a touching tale of two migrant laborers in search of work and eventual liberation from their social circumstances. Fiercely devot…	OL23204W
ねじまき鳥クロニクル	村上春樹	Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disi…	OL2625412W
The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published September 26, 1988 and inspired in part by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magi…	OL457175W
The Best of Everything	Rona Jaffe	Before Valley of the Dolls and Sex in the City, there was The Best of Everything—the iconic novel of ambitious career girls in New York City. When it was first published in 1958, Rona Jaffe’…	OL551687W
The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (At the 'Cadian Ball / Awakening / Beyond the Bay…	Kate Chopin	Contains: [The Awakening][1] [Beyond the Bayou][2] Ma'ame Pélagie [Désirée’s Baby][3] A respectable woman The kiss [A Pair of Silk Stockings][4] The locket A reflection At the 'Cadian ba…	OL65434W
The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 19…	OL875437W