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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The house on Sugar Plum Lane	Judy Duarte	In her unforgettable Fairbrook novels, Judy Duarte has created a town that's as warm and as welcoming as home. In The House on Sugar Plum Lane, old friends and new characters mingle in a poignant sto…	OL14906553W
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	Lisa See	Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer in Yongming County, and to her family is just another mouth to feed until she can be married off. But when she is six years old she is brought before the ambit…	OL14927217W
The misogynist	Piers Paul Read	Jomier has reached the age of retirement. His children have grown up. He lives alone in London, embittered and humiliated after his wife, Tilly, had an affair and left him for Max, an uninhibited int…	OL15526983W
The J.A.P. chronicles	Isabel Rose	Reunited with her former bunkmates at the centennial of Willow Lake Camp, Ali Cohen, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, plans to make a documentary about her former teenage tormentors at the Jewish girls'…	OL15867516W
The breaking of eggs	Jim Powell	From the boulevards of Paris to the ghettos of wartime Poland, via Midwest America and the Berlin Wall, 'The Breaking Of Eggs' chronicles the extraordinary journey of a lonely man who discovers it ne…	OL16516794W
Spool of Blue Thread	Anne Tyler	"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she ca…	OL17318754W
The 5th Inning	E. Ethelbert Miller	Summary:The 5th Inning is poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller's second memoir. Coming a decade after Fathering words: the making of an African American writer, this book finds Miller retur…	OL17397297W
An American type	Henry Roth	Set in the dire year of 1938, Ira Stigman journeys to the famed artists' colony Yaddo, where he meets a blond, aristocratic pianist whose "calm, Anglo-Saxon radiance" engages him.The conflict with hi…	OL17739556W
The Joy Luck Club	Amy Tan,Ronald Bass,Jordi Fibla,Tsai Chin,Wayne Wang,Gwendoline Yeo	Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet we…	OL1843720W
Darke	Rick Gekoski,R. A. Gekoski	Dr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age' journal; he eats little, drinks and smokes a lot. Meditating on what he has lost - the loves of h…	OL19728973W
Belle Cora	Phillip Margulies	A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and tran…	OL19974519W
Historia de un canalla	Julia Navarro	Soy un canalla y no me arrepiento de serlo. He mentido, engañado y manipulado a mi antojo sin que me importaran las consecuencias. He destruido sueños y reputaciones, he traicionado a los que me ha…	OL20029681W
An eagle in the snow	Michael Morpurgo	Could one moment have saved the world from war?	OL20045114W
Harry Miller's run	David Almond,Salvatore Rubbino	The Junior Great North Run is coming soon to Newcastle Upon Tyne and Liam needs to train. But his elderly neighbor, Harry, needs a hand moving and Liam is asked to help. Little does he know that Harr…	OL20049059W
Talking with Grandpa	Carlos Ramos	A boy and his grandfather talk about things they like to do.	OL24301769W
The family table	Penina Adelman	Grandma relates the story of how her dining table entered her life, as well as other memories.	OL26435162W
Stadt der Diebe	David Benioff	A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents.…	OL28173230W
The deadwood beetle	Mylène Dressler,Mylène Dressler	"Tristan Martens, a retired entomologist, is shaken by the discovery of his mother's sewing table in a New York antique shop. He hasn't seen it since he was a boy in Holland, but he vividly remembers…	OL3346847W
When light breaks	Patti Callahan Henry	Garnering comparisons to Anne Rivers Siddons and Pat Conroy, Patti Callahan Henry has woven her lyrical Southern voice throughout the Lowcountry landscape. Now, as two women from opposite sides of th…	OL5712274W
The lamentations of Julius Marantz	Marc Estrin	Marc Estrin follows another of his strange protagonists through a world troubled by what it knows and by how it applies that knowledge.From the first page, we are plunged into a global riot of parano…	OL5814405W