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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Doctor Olaf van Schuler's brain	Kirsten Menger-Anderson	Plagued by madness and guided by an intense desire to cure human affliction, each generation of the unusual van Schuler family is driven by the science of its day. As they make their way in the world…	OL11977464W
The Help	Kathryn Stockett	Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi…	OL11999891W
L’étranger	Albert Camus	L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienn…	OL1230613W
Tinkers	Paul Harding	An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once…	OL13609372W
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet	David Mitchell	The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the W…	OL15233654W
Super sad true love story	Gary Shteyngart,Adam Grupper,Ali Ahn	From the New York Times [review][1] written by Michiko Kakutani, June 2010: *"Gary Shteyngart’s wonderful new novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performanc…	OL15326463W
The illumination	Kevin Brockmeier	"What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination begins. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a f…	OL15662887W
Next to normal	Tom Kitt	"A contemporary musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. With provocative lyrics and an electrifying score of more than thirty original songs, Next to normal shows how far …	OL16113251W
Bring Up the Bodies	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the Bodies is a historical novel by Hilary Mantel; sequel to the award-winning [Wolf Hall;](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL464512W) and part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thoma…	OL16547664W
Hope to Die	James Patterson	Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family -- his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious c…	OL17079191W
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
Mount Misery	Samuel Shem	Een arts in een psychiatrische kliniek raakt in verwarring omdat de verschillende afdelingen heel verschillende werkmethoden hebben.	OL1884672W
I Know This Much Is True	Wally Lamb	E-book extra: "Who Is Wally Lamb?" The author recalls events surrounding the acclaimed publication of I Know This Much Is True. ( Not available in print editions of this work.)Wally Lamb's masterful …	OL1952159W
What I Loved	Siri Hustvedt	"What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work and tracks down the artist, Bil…	OL2698554W
The Children's Book	A. S. Byatt	Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize--winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I year…	OL447886W
Rabbit is rich	John Updike	It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in pl…	OL463820W
Our John Willie	Catherine Cookson	When Davie and John Willie Halliday lose their father in a mine cave-in, the orphans are left to fend for themselves. Twelve-year-old Davie finds shelter for himself and John Willie, a deaf mute, on …	OL48473W
The wide, wide world	Susan Warner	Ellen has difficulty believing that God will take care of her when her dying mother leaves her with the unloving Mrs. Dunscombe.	OL4874217W
Wit	Margaret Edson	This play is about a professor who finds out she has stage four ovarian cancer. She realizes through her ordeal that she has no friends to fall back on, no family to support her. Over time she befrie…	OL51524W
The march	E. L. Doctorow	In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confede…	OL55232W