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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Crying Tree	Naseem Rakha	Irene and Nate Stanley are living a quiet and contented life with their two children, Bliss and Shep, on their family farm in southern Illinois when Nate suddenly announces he's been offered a job as…	OL13614503W
The language of the sea	James MacManus	After losing his teaching position, marine biologist Leo Kemp takes a last field trip with his students, only to encounter a dangerous weather system that causes him to be thrown overboard and confro…	OL15999498W
Six ways to keep the "good" in your boy	Dannah Gresh	How can you teach your tween son to be honest, confident, and respectful when the world encourages him to make bad decisions and grow up too fast? The Greshes offer six proactive ways to help your bo…	OL16190777W
Nakamura reality	Alex Austin	To understand Japanese culture requires reading between the lines. This is Hugh Mcpherson's challenge in Nakamura Reality, a beguiling blend of mystery, odyssey, inconsolable loss and obsession. Abse…	OL17872961W
Love's journey home	Kelly Irvin	It's been seven years since her husband died, but Helen Crouch is doing just fine. She's selling her jams and canned goods at the bakery and making a tidy living. But her whole world goes topsy-turvy…	OL18080425W
The weight of stones	C. B. Forrest	Toronto at the close of 1999 is a time of change, but Detective Charlie McKelveys life is stuck on pause since the murder of his runaway son, Gavin. As his wife focuses on healing, McKelvey is burden…	OL18186638W
Johnny Angel	Danielle Steel	The breath-taking story of a mother's love and a son's gift...Johnny Peterson could light up a room with a word or a smile. He had a future filled with promise – until he stepped into a car on prom n…	OL19695W
Formulas of acoustics	Fridolin P. Mechel	This collection of formulas has been written by applied scientist and industrial engineers for design professionals and students who work in engineering acoustics. It is subdi- vided into the most im…	OL19850903W
Disney's The Lion King ROAR! [1997]	Patricia Grossman	Simba and Nala try to disturb the other animals by roaring, but the animals just ignore them. Scholastic Edition: Level 1 in Disney's First Reader collection. Includes note to parents and follow-u…	OL1988937W
The mother	Yvvette Edwards	"Marcias's husband, Lloydie, expresses his tender love for his wife each morning by preparing a cup of tea and setting it by her bedside. This routine was part of the wonderful, secure life they had …	OL20028004W
The one-in-a-million boy	Monica Wood	Guitarist Quinn Porter chases gigs on the road, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness recordsobsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness by completin…	OL20028006W
Raising Boys	Steve Biddulph	"A guide to the stages and issues in boys' development from birth to manhood"--Provided by publisher.	OL2026058W
Cacophonie	Ian Whybrow	Littérature jeunesse : album, bruit	OL24434193W
Angielskie lato	Małgorzata Mroczkowska	"Życie, szczególne to po czterdziestce, pełne jest niespodziewanych zbiegów okoliczności... Anna wyjechała z Polski dwadzieścia lat temu. Mieszka w Londynie. Ma męża Anglika, przy boku którego prowad…	OL27280961W
Otac	Miljenko Jergović	"Started the day after his father died, this unusual book is about national and private issues, the closeness of a father and son, and what separated them; forgiveness and what is unforgivable, dying…	OL27715794W
Mi vida con las estrellas	Carlos Chimal	Son of an astrologer and an astronomer, Jos Agust n often finds himself caught between speeches and opposing positions. Secretly, he has always felt closer to his mother, and the mere possibility of …	OL28175155W
The intermediary	DAve Silver	The story of a man in a shadowy profession, someone hired by a government, a financier, or a criminal, to help with a particularly vexing problem from which they need to be insulated. Against all the…	OL28587396W
Envy	Kathryn Harrison	Will has a good sex life–with the woman he married. So why then is he increasingly plagued by violent erotic fantasies that, were they to break out of his imagination and into the real world, have th…	OL470977W
My heart will cross this ocean	Craig Wolff,Kadiatou Diallo	Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen. T…	OL6033534W
Chichi Nakahara Junichi	Shuichi Nakahara	Shuichi Nakahara's controversial book (written and published in the 1980-ies) about his well known father, the painter and fashion designer Junichi Nakahara	OL9906087W