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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Birthright	Nora Roberts,Michel Ganstel	When five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adv…	OL111543W
Remember Me	Mary Higgins Clark	Trade paper back size.	OL13037W
The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli, Book 1)	Tess Gerritsen,Tess Gerritsen	If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. The terrifying first Jane Rizzoli bestseller.In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs…	OL14871640W
Witch & wizard	James Patterson,Gabrielle Charbonnet	Your books, music, and art - BANNED You are holding an urgent and vital narrative that reveals the forbidden truth about these perilous times... This is the astonishing testimonial of Wis…	OL14920182W
The White Silence and Other Short Stories	Jack London	The white silence -- The wisdom of the trail -- Nam-Bok the unveracious -- The league of the old men -- The wit of Porportuk.	OL14943168W
Foxfire	Joyce Carol Oates	The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, power and vengeance on a world they never made--a wor…	OL14958463W
The Haunted dusk	Charles L. Crow,Howard Kerr,John William Crowley	Contents: Washington Irving and the American Ghost Story • essay by G. Richard Thompson [as by G. R. Thompson ] Phantasms and Death in Poe's Fiction • essay by J. Gerald Kennedy Philanthropy and…	OL16025981W
Triple crossing	Sebastian Rotella	Rookie Border Patrol agent Valentine Pescatore is recruited as an informant by a beautiful U.S. agent investigating a powerful Mexican crime family and is plunged into the lawless "triple border" reg…	OL16173766W
Fresh men	Edmund White,Donald Weise	Certain to become a new cornerstone of the gay literary tradition, Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction brings together twenty outstanding stories by new authors. From coming out to coming of age, …	OL17832222W
A Woman's Eye	Sara Paretsky	Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction. The voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the m…	OL18028W
The Informers	Bret Easton Ellis	Los Angeles, 1980s. Centers on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap - a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster - and the very bottom (a voyeuris…	OL1812924W
The feminine "no!"	Todd McGowan	"The Feminine "No!" sheds new light on the recent culture wars and debates about changes to the literary canon. Todd McGowan argues that the dynamics of canon change, rather than being the isolated c…	OL18317547W
The lacuna	Barbara Kingsolver	"The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of th…	OL18545102W
Le feu sacré	Katherine Neville	Roman policier (suspense). Roman historique.	OL21667913W
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
Library jumpers	Brenda Drake	Fervente lectrice, passionnée d'escrime, Gianna a perdu sa mère à l'âge de quatre ans. Elle visite pour la première fois l'Athenæum, l'une des plus anciennes bibliothèques de Boston, accompagnée de s…	OL27038903W
Distant brothers	Robert E. Kellar	A tragedy - the death of an abused toddler; in counterpoint - a light satire, in farce, of professional baseball Joe Minley, a foul-tongued, self-proclaimed despiser of children, is a 28-year old ex-…	OL28591008W
The Oracles Fell Silent	Lee Oser	When the legendary Sir Ted Pop hires young Richard Bellman as his secretary, Bellman's work on the great man's memoir transforms his young life into a divine comedy -- or is it a devilish farce? In a…	OL28765744W
Everything Is Illuminated	Jonathan Safran Foer	A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is …	OL5738260W
Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith	Paula Gallant Eckard	"Throughout human history, motherhood and maternal experience have been largely defined and written by patriarchal culture. Religion, art, medicine, psychoanalysis, and other bastions of male power h…	OL5957296W