Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
POETRY OF THE SCILIAN SCHOOL (Garland Library of Medieval Literature)	Frede Jensen	lxxxiii, 251 pages : 23 cm	OL19543376W
On the border	Hildi Hawkins	xi, 164 p. ; 22 cm	OL19587378W
Puerilities	Daryl Hine	"Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, constitute most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is translated…	OL19591757W
Balkan Blues	Joanna Labon	Essays, stories and a play set in Yugoslavia. The title piece, written by Dubravka Ugresic, is a satire on murderous folklore, while Bogdan Bogdanovic's The City of Death is on Belgrade.	OL19605202W
La vida doble	Arturo Fontaine Talavera	"Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression…	OL19666827W
The collected works of Paul Valéry	Paul Valéry	Poems ranging from "La Jeune Parque" and "Le Cimetière marin" to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and inscriptions on ladies' fans demonstrate the wide …	OL19667029W
The human comedy	Honoré de Balzac	"We think of Honore Balzac as the author of long and fully upholstered novels, stitched together into the magnificent visionary document called The Human Comedy. Yet along with the full-length fictio…	OL19706841W
Arisa	Natsumi Andō	"Tsubasa thought she'd finally reconciled with her sister, only to watch her go back to Midori's side! Shocked and confused, Tsubasa heads to Midori's hometown, desperate for answers. But while she s…	OL19707736W
Cardfight!	Akira Itou	From the makers of the YuGiOh trading card game comes Cardfight!! Vanguard, the manga that inspired the hit Vanguard card game. In similar fashion to YuGiOh and Magic the Gathering, the teenage cast …	OL19713443W
School-live!	Kaihou, Norimitsu,	With Ruu-chan as their new companion, the rest of the School Living Club are at St. Isidore University. As Yuki's and the rest search for the Randall Corporation, the Militants decide that the modera…	OL19713544W
The water dragon's bride	Rei Tōma	In the blink of an eye, a modern-day girl named Asahi is whisked away from her warm and happy home and stranded in a strange and mysterious world where she meets a water dragon god!	OL19717201W
Miami century fox	Legna Rodríguez Iglesias	121 pages ; 23 cm	OL19722104W
The silence that remains	Ghassān Zaqṭān	"'[A] rare occurrence in the poetry world.'-American Book Review. As a child, Ghassan Zaqtan lived in a refugee camp near the River Jordan. While that painful experience deeply influenced his poetry,…	OL19722155W
Tales of the marvellous and news of the strange	Robert Irwin,M. C. Lyons	Dating from at least a millennium ago, this title features the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. It features monsters, lost princ…	OL19726013W
Record of a night too brief	Hiromi Kawakami	"One morning, a woman treads on a snake. She comes home that evening and realises the snake has moved into her house and is saying she is her mother. So begins the story of a woman trying to live wit…	OL19729000W
Brazen	Pénélope Bagieu	Les Culottées is a blog BD (French webcomic in blog format) written by Pénélope Bagieu in 2016. Published on the website of Le Monde, Bagieu uses Les Culottées to tell short biographical stories abou…	OL19737622W
Fox	Dubravka Ugrešić	"With characteristic wit and narrative force, Fox takes us from Russia to Japan, through Balkan minefields and American road trips, and from the 1920s to the present, as it explores the power of stor…	OL19738179W
Kakegurui	Homura Kawamoto	When Yumeko Jabami enrolls in Hyakkaou Private Academy, she's going to show what a high roller really looks like.	OL19742034W
JoJo's bizarre adventure	Hirohiko Araki	"JoJo and friends continue to close in on their nemesis, DIO! Their travels take them across the Middle East, where they face new and more powerful enemies--a mysterious woman with magnetic powers, a…	OL19749261W
Words for war	Oksana Maksymchuk,Max Rosochinsky	"The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this …	OL19761718W