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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Virginian	Owen Wister	The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and a significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a beautif…	OL106175W
The pursuit	Lori Wick	1813- Collingbourne in the Spring Edward Steele has enjoyed a great adventure in Africa with his brother, Henry. But now Henry has returned to England, and Edward, hoping to be home for Christmas,…	OL111098W
The death of Finn	Oran Ryan	The Death of Finn concerns the sudden and untimely death of Joe Finn, a brilliant and eccentric young monk, and traces the impact of his death on the people around him, in particular his one-time bes…	OL11982697W
Best friends	Thomas Berger	"Since childhood, Sam Grandy and Roy Courtright have been best friends. They grew up in the same prosperous community, went to the same prep school, and later entered the same university. After Sam's…	OL137285W
Deliverance	James Dickey	The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a…	OL14856962W
Imperial Bedrooms	Bret Easton Ellis	Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle that will leave him no choice but to plumb…	OL14918362W
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [adaptation]	Clay Stafford	Adaptation of [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL53908W). When Huck Finn and Jim run away from "civilized" life, they end up in some of the wildest adventures--as dar…	OL15132300W
The Mississippi Writings of Mark Twain (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Tom Sawyer /…	Mark Twain	Contains: [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL53908W) Adventures of Tom Sawyer Life on the Mississippi Pudd'nhead Wilson	OL15290035W
Works (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Connecticut Yankee in King Arthu…	Mark Twain	Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL53908W/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn) Tom Sawyer abroad -- Tom Sawyer, detective -- Life on the Missi…	OL15346679W
Behind the moon	Hsu-Ming Teo	From Vogel award-winning author Hsu-Ming Teo, a powerful novel about the ties of friendship, love and history.How did people connect with each other? How was it that some people managed to manacle ot…	OL15834786W
Love, etc	Julian Barnes	Stuart, his ex-wife Gillian, and her new husband, Oliver (Stuart's former best friend) are still entangled in their new relationship to one another.	OL15838021W
Travis & Freddy's adventures in Vegas	Henry Johnson	Thirteen-year-old best friends Travis and Freddy fly to Las Vegas with a plan to save Travis's family from bankruptcy, but not everything goes as they had hoped and soon they are running from the mob.	OL15857390W
Animal friendships	Anne Innis Dagg	"Research into social behaviour in animals has often focused on aggression, yet members of social species are far more likely to interact with each other in a positive way. Animal Friendships explore…	OL15920853W
Turning angel	Greg Iles	Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.	OL16044165W
The Lost Memory of Skin	Russell Banks	Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison w…	OL16099623W
Tower	Ken Bruen	"Born into a rough Brooklyn neighborhood, outsiders in their own families, Nick and Todd forge a lifelong bond that persists in the face of crushing loss, blood, and betrayal. Low-level wiseguys with…	OL17025876W
A Little Life	Hanya Yanagihara	A Little Life is a 2015 novel by American novelist Hanya Yanagihara. The novel was written over the course of eighteen months. Despite the length and difficult subject matter, it became a bestseller.	OL17370186W
El enigma del cuatro	Ian Caldwell,Dustin Thomason	Cuando están a punto de graduarse en la prestigiosa Universidad de Princeton, dos estudiantes se ven envueltos en el enigma de Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, un libro publicado en 1499 que ha tenido en v…	OL17757054W
Cataract city	Davidson, Craig	The friendship between Owen Stuckey and Duncan Diggs waxes and wanes as they both long to flee their small town. On the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, life beyond the tourist trade isn't easy. Loca…	OL17867751W
Parrot and Olivier in America	Peter Carey	French Olivier travels to the States to study their penal system while English Parrot is sent as a spy and a protector for Olivier.	OL17937704W