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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
La Nuit	Elie Wiesel	Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie…	OL14856842W
Mouse of my heart	Margaret Wise Brown	A collection of stories and poems, arranged in the categories "Adventure," "Big and Little," "Bravery," "Love and Friendship," "Happiness," "Belonging," "For a Rainy Day," "Nonsense," "Colors," and "…	OL151817W
ESSAYS - First Series (1841)	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Contents: HISTORY, SELF-RELIANCE, COMPENSATION, SPIRITUAL LAWS, LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, PRUDENCE, HEROISM, THE OVER-SOUL, CIRCLES, INTELLECT, and ART.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, n…	OL15186819W
Tablet & pen	Reza Aslan	Spans a century of poems, short stories, novels, memoirs, and essays by Sait Faik Abasiyanik, Azra Abbas, Ghulam Abbas, Abu Salma, Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa'id Asbar), Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Pegah Ahmadi, Tawf…	OL16121078W
Words without borders : the world through the eyes of writers : an anthology	Samantha Schnee	"In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literature have stepped forward to introduce us to dazzling literary talents virtually unknown to readers of English. All of these piec…	OL18183710W
The wisdom of the Irish	Suheil B. Bushrui	xxiv, 200 p. ; 20 cm	OL19473453W
Moral love songs and laments	Susanna Greer Fein	x, 400 pages : 24 cm	OL19482921W
All these wonders	Catherine Burns	"From storytelling phenomenon The Moth: a collection about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best stories ever told on their stages. All These Wonders features voices both familia…	OL20050065W
The Norton Anthology of English Literature	M. H. Abrams,M. H. Abrams,M. H.,Abrams,M. Abrams,M. H. Adams,Stephen Greenblatt	Collects literature written by the most well-known English authors.	OL2026379W
The Education of John Reed	John Reed	Selections from Reed's lively, passionate writing in the decade 1910 to his untimely death in 1920. Partisan of workers and peasants, a fighter for fundamental change in the social order. Introductio…	OL2136255W
Castle of Perseverance	David N. Klausner	The play deals allegorically with the life of man and his struggle against sin, and the structure is for the most part based on a sequence of temptation, fall and redemption. The play describes the w…	OL21918085W
The kid from courage	Ron Berman	Bryan Berry remembers the training, the competition, and the ups and downs of trying to succeed in one of the most challenging sports in the world.	OL22059150W
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
Flower Fables	Louisa May Alcott	Louisa May Alcott was twenty-one when she published this, her first book. A collection of fairy stories and poems she originally told to Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter Ellen, Flower Fables is a charm…	OL30056W
Retire the Colors	Ron Capps - Introduction Dario DiBattista - Editor	xvii, 195 pages ; 21 cm	OL31550754W
Insights: themes in literature	G. Robert Carlsen	A thematically arranged anthology of poems, short stories, plays, and novellas for the ninth-grade reader.	OL4986487W
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live	Joan Didion	"Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary polit…	OL500169W
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. edition Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tr…	OL503666W
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	An allegorical novella descibing the rehabilitation of bitter, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. The reader is witness to his transformation as Scrooge is shown the error of his ways by the ghost…	OL8193497W
Nonstop nonsense	Margaret Mahy	A collection of whimsical stories and poems about such creatures as a word wizard, a poetical cat, and a very small ghost who lives inside a book.	OL86175W