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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Benim Adım Kırmızı	Orhan Pamuk	My Name Is Red (Turkish: Benim Adım Kırmızı) is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in 2001. The novel, concerning miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire of…	OL1019598W
Kara kitap	Orhan Pamuk	The Black Book is a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirms Orhan Pamuk's reputation as a writer of international stature, comparable to Borges and Calvino. Galip is…	OL1019601W
The patience stone	Atiq Rahimi	In Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, which absorbs the plight of those who confide in it. It is believed that the day it explodes, after having r…	OL15611821W
Vergebung	Stieg Larsson	Die Ermittlerin Lisbeth Salander steht unter Mordverdacht. Ihr Partner Mikael Blomkvist schwört, ihre Unschuld zu beweisen. Er weiß, dass es um Salanders Leben geht. Als seine Ermittlungen die schwed…	OL15653111W
Woman at point zero	Nawal El Saadawi	From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance …	OL1602169W
Snow	Orhan Pamuk	Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense—a masterful novel of "political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic…	OL16064734W
Revenge	Tasalima Nasarina	"In modern Bangladesh, Jhumur marries for love and imagines life with her husband, Haroon, will continue much as it did when they were dating. But once she crosses the threshold of Haroon's family ho…	OL18015947W
Take me out to the ball game	John Stadler,Gene Vosough,Jack Norworth	The Howlers and the Growlers take the field to jump, slide, and run the bases as they play out the lyrics to "Take me out to the ball game."	OL18801656W
Zanān bidūn-i mardan	Shahrnush Parsipur	This modern literary masterpiece follows the interwoven destinies of five women — including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a prostitute, and a school-teacher — as they arrive by different paths to …	OL1938676W
Spectres	Raḍwá ʻĀshūr	Radwa and Shagar are two women born on the same day. Spectres alternates between their childhoods, their days at work, their married and unmarried lives, and the two books they are writing.	OL24189331W
Meine Liebe, deine Liebe	Duygu Asena	Belletristik : Türkei ; Frau.	OL24684879W
FrostNacht	Arnaldur Indriðason	Ein offenbar kaltblütig ausgeführter Mord lässt den Menschen in Island das Blut in den Adern gefrieren - mehr noch als die eisigen Stürme, die in diesem ungewöhnlich kalten Winter über die Insel im N…	OL26377668W
From Gutenberg to Google	Peter L. Shillingsburg	As technologies for electronic texts develop into ever more sophisticated engines for capturing different kinds of information, radical changes are underway in the way we write, transmit and read tex…	OL2698175W
Tieta aus Agreste	Jorge Amado	Belletristik : Brasilien ; Roman.	OL28769674W
Die Schattenkönigin	Djebar, Assia	Belletristik : Algerien ; Frau - Islam.	OL28942421W
East winds, west winds	Mahdī ʻĪsá Ṣaqr	Set among the oil wells of the Basra region of southern Iraq, where the writer spent much of his working life, this novel draws on the author's own experiences to paint a picture at once subtle and v…	OL28945413W
Der Blick aus meinem Fenster	Orhan Pamuk	Autobiographisches, Erzählendes, Politik, Kunst und Literatur: Orhan Pamuk fasst in diesem Band eine Summe von unterschiedlichen und widersprüchlichen Erfahrungen zusammen.	OL28952397W
Män som hatar kvinnor	Stieg Larsson	Mikael Blomkvist, ekonomireporter, döms till fängelse för förtal av finansmannen Wennerström, och beslutar sig för att ta time out från sitt jobb på tidskriften Millennium. I samma veva får han ett …	OL5784622W
Neither here nor there	Bill Bryson	Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later.Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acc…	OL74125W
The Jew in the Modern World	Paul R. Mendes-Flohr,Jehuda Reinharz	Synopsis: The last two centuries have witnessed a radical transformation of Jewish life. Marked by such profound events as the emancipation from the ghettoes of Europe, the Holocaust and the establis…	OL8001991W