Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Caretaker The Caretaker a .x. Ahmad "Ranjit Singh, a former Indian Army Captain trying to escape a shameful past, lives with his family among the migrant workers of Martha's Vineyard, working as a caretaker of the vacation homes of the… OL17705197W
Tree palace Tree palace Craig Sherborne They tried Mansfield but it was freezing and snowed and people like them don't fit in because they don't look prosperous. One time near Yellingbo they found a church no one prayed in and they lived t… OL17873081W
The caretaker The caretaker A. X. Ahmad A gripping, evocative thriller about a disgraced Sikh Indian Army captain who works as the caretaker for a U.S. Senator's Martha's Vineyard estate, and becomes ensnared in the Senator's shadowy world… OL19964126W
In wilderness In wilderness Diane C. Thomas "For readers of Amanda Coplin and Chris Bohjalian, In Wilderness is a suspenseful and literary love story--a daring and original novel about our fierce need for companionship and our enduring will to… OL19995218W
Damnificados Damnificados J. J. Wilson "Damnificados is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela: the Tower of David. In this fictional version, six hundred damnificados--vagabonds and… OL20022539W
Nicotine Nicotine Nell Zink The conventional one in a non-conventional family, Penny Baker inherits her father's childhood home in New Jersey. She finds the property not overgrown and abandoned, but occupied by a group of frien… OL20038355W
Thale's Folly Thale's Folly Dorothy Gilman At the request of his father, New York City novelist Andrew Thale tackles an odd assignment--to check out an old family property in Massachusetts, neglected since Aunt Harriet Thale's death years ago. OL27883W
Bewegingsleer Bewegingsleer Foundation for Advancement of Illegal Knowledge Compelling and instructive tales of autonomous adventure and humorous mayhem from within the Dutch squatter’s movement of the 1980s. Accounts of playful and spontaneous intransigence, theoretic burle… OL8724072W