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She's Come Undone
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Wally Lamb
In his first novel, Wally Lamb creates a heroine--Dolores Price--who survives family insanity, rape, abuse, obesity, and the death of loved ones, emerging at the end as a strong, tough woman whose life is moving toward hope and salvation.
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Fine Balance
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R Mistry
In mid-1970s India, a "State of Internal Emergency" has been declared. Four disparate people find their lives connected in ways that are as inextricable as they are unexpected. A housing shortage brings them together as roommates in an apartment: they are a widow determined not to remarry, a student from the Himalayas, and a man and his nephew ...
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
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Rick Perlstein
From one of America's most talented historians comes a brilliant new account of Richard Nixon--set against the violent passions of America's 1960s civil war--that reveals the riveting backstory to the red state/blue state resentments that divide the nation today. Illustrated.
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All the President's Men
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Carl Bernstein
The journalistic team of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward is credited with reporting the most explosive political story of the 1970s, which began as a seemingly low-level break-in at the Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C. in June, 1972, and which was to result in the resignation of President Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon. Writing in the style ...
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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Alexandra Fuller
Raised in Rhodesia during the Rhodesian War (1971-1979), this memoirist expresses the violence of African politics and the African landscape from her perspective as a white citizen born in England. Insects, landmines, leopards, and terrorists imprint this coming-of-age story. A New York Times Notable Book of 2002.
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Eight
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Katherine Neville
This mix of historical fiction, thriller, and puzzler was written more than 10 years before THE DA VINCI CODE, but should appeal to the same fans. Two novices in 18th-century Revolutionary France get their hands on a chess set once owned by Charlemagne and possessed of great mystic power. To prevent that power from falling into evil hands, the ...
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The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008
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Sean Wilentz
From one of the nation's leading historians comes a powerful reappraisal of American political life since the fall of Nixon. 16-page b&w photo insert.
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The Nightingale's Song
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Robert Timberg
"The Nightingale's Song" is the story of five Annapolis graduates--Oliver North, Bud McFarlane, John Poindexter, John McCain, and Jim Webb--who served in Vietnam and later became powerful players in Washington during the Reagan years. Robert Timberg examines how their experiences in Vietnam shaped their actions in government during the 1980s.
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The Kindness of Women
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J G Ballard
A hybrid of autobiography and fiction, this is a sequel to "The Empire of the Sun." It ends with the filming of that novel by Stephen Spielberg, and Ballard's participation in the project.
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Strange Fits of Passion
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Anita Shreve
Two young successful New York City journalists and their new baby seem the perfect family unit. But when domestic violence destroys this wholesome portrait, the mother flees with her baby and seeks asylum in a Maine fishing town. In her second stunning novel, Anita Shreve presents a labyrinth of truth and decpetion.
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After This
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Alice McDermott
Witty, compassionate, and wry, this novel captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of the middle decades of the 20th century through the experiences of a middle-class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live.
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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
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Timothy B Tyson (Read by)
Tyson sheds a new light on the struggle for racial justice as he weaves together childhood memories with the realities of present-day Oxford, NC--his hometown--where a young black man was killed in the town square by a Klansmen in 1970 and acquitted by an all-white jury.
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Vinegar Hill
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A. Manette Ansay
A sad, funny, lyrical debut novel about gritty small-town life and one woman's struggle to step beyond the boundaries of the familiar. In 1972, a woman returns to her Midwestern Catholic hometown and endures the presures of teaching, raising a family, and living in the bizarre household of her in-laws--who harbor a dark secret.
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Born on the Fourth of July
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Ron Kovic
Universal Pictures has enlisted the talents of actor Tom Cruise and director Oliver Stone to bring this powerful and devastating account to the big screen. Set during the Vietnam War, here is the story of a man who wanted to be a hero . . . but the war put him in a wheelchair. Now he has to face a new challenge.
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Lost Moon CL: Avail in Paper
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James A Lovell, Captain, Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
This book gives a detailed account of one of the worst disasters in the history of space exploration. Two days into its journey to the Moon, Apollo 13 was rocked by an unexplained explosion. The crew lost most of its power and oxygen. They were forced into the lunar module which had an independent oxygen supply. In order to get the ship home, the ...
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The Aviators: Brotherhood of War 08
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W E B Griffin
The Vietnam War has begun to escalate, its style of battle demanding new weapons and tactics--and men who can use them. Overnight, the U.S. Army must scramble to create its first-ever Air Assault Division, and through sheer courage and dedication, these heroic fighters rise to the challenge. "Vivid, gripping!" --Washington Post.
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Girlfriend in a Coma
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Douglas Coupland
A teenager falls into a mysterious coma in 1979, then awakes in the late '90s to a radically different world, including an apocalyptic virus that threatens to destroy the world.
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F5: Devastating, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century
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Mark Levine
Acclaimed journalist Levine has crafted a page-turner that reads with the immediacy of a novel, telling a harrowing story of natural disaster against the backdrop of the turbulent 1970s.
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The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
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Bob Woodward
One of the best-kept secrets of the Washington world was finally revealed in 2005, when W. Mark Felt, a retired FBI agent, was identified as the insider source referred to as "Deep Throat" in Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's 1970s Watergate saga, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN. This revelation freed Woodward to publish THE SECRET MAN, which fleshes out ...
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Goldmine Price Guide to 45 RPM Records
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Tim Neely
More than 70,000 individual listings of 45 RPM records from 1949 through 2000 are featured in this comprehensive guide. Every record is indexed alphabetically by artist and includes a convenient checklist format to help readers inventory their collections. 200 photos. 8-page color section.
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Hole in My Life
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Jack Gantos
Gantos, the well-known author of the Rotten Ralph picture books and young adult novels such as JOEY PIGZA SWALLOWED THE KEY and JOEY PIGZA LOSES CONTROL, shares the true story of how he was arrested and sent to jail for drug dealing. Reflecting on his childhood, his education, and his time in jail, Gantos explores how he stopped merely dreaming of ...
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Camp Concentration
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Thomas M Disch
Louis Sacchetti is taken from the prison he's been sentenced to and put in Camp Archimedes. He is infected with Palladine, a mind-expanding drug whose side effect is syphilis. Sacchetti knows he is doomed to die of syphilis, as are the other camp inmates, and must come to terms with this. It is worth noting that this book, originally published in ...
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Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
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Deborah Curtis
Joy Division's singer and lyricist Ian Curtis committed suicide in 1980, barely a year after the band's stunning debut album, UNKNOWN PLEASURES. Sensitive, ambitious, and intelligent, Curtis was also a death-obsessed epileptic. In his widow's moving and absorbing recounting of their life together, TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE, Deborah Curtis's ...
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Feathers
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Jacqueline Woodson
A Newbery Honor winner takes readers on a journey into a young girl's heart and reveals the pain and joy of learning to look beneath the surface in this new novel.
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Write It When I'm Gone
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Thomas M Defrank
In an extraordinary series of private interviews, conducted over sixteen years with the stipulation that they not be released until after Ford's death, the thirty-eighth president of the United States reveals a profoundly different side of himself: funny, reflective, gossipy, strikingly candid-and the stuff of headlines. In 1974, award-winning ...
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