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"In the fall of 1957, Olivia McAlister is living in Opelika, Mississippi, caring for her two girls, June and Grace, and her husband, Holly. She dreams of living a much larger life--seeing the world and returning to her wartime job at a landing boat factory in New Orleans. As she watches over the birds in her yard, Olivia feels like an "accidental"--a migratory bird blown off course. When Olivia becomes pregnant again, she makes a fateful decision,...
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Best friends Audrey Barrett and Eve Dawson are looking forward to celebrating Christmas in postwar America, thrilled at the prospect of starting new traditions with their five-year-old sons. But when the Sears Christmas Wish Book arrives and the boys start obsessing over every toy in it, Audrey and Eve realize they must first teach them the true significance of the holiday. They begin by helping Bobby and Harry plan gifts of encouragement and service...
43) Indignation
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English
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What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working...
44) The summer wives
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English
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Summer, 1951: Miranda Schuyler arrives on the elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in WWII. When her mother marries Hugh Fisher, Miranda is catapulted into a heady world of pedigrees and cocktails. Miranda's new stepsister, Isobel--all long legs and world-weary bravado--is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop. But beneath its patrician surface,...
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Nick Russo has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood to a reporting job at one of the city's biggest newspapers. But the late 1950s are a hostile time for gay men, and Nick knows that he can't let anyone into his life. He just never counted on meeting someone as impossible to say no to as Andy. Andy Fleming's newspaper-tycoon father wants him to take over the family business. Andy, though, has no intention of running the paper. He's barely...
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Dover Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for the freedom of the open road, where their love can blossom. But their newly discovered bliss is shattered when Carol is forced to choose between her child and her lover.
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Three births of Daoloth volume 1
Publisher
Flame Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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245 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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On a school trip to France teenager Dominic Sheldrake begins to suspect his teacher Christian Noble has reasons to be there as secret as they're strange. Meanwhile a widowed neighbour joins a church that puts you in touch with your dead relatives,who prove much harder to get rid of. As Dominic and his friends Roberta and Jim investigate, they can't suspect how much larger and more terrible the link between these mysteries will become.
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In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of love and fate, and of heritage threatened by progress. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana with a huge task before her--a canyon "as...
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Bantam Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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379 pages : maps ; 20 cm
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English
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It?s 1955 in a world where the Nazis won WWII. While Britain and Germany exist in uneasy truce, a British spy and assassin continues his own stealth campaign against the men behind the deaths of his compatriots during the war. When the head of the Secret Service is assassinated, he goes AWOL to seek revenge, not knowing that his journey will bring him face-to-face with a secret German weapon that could change the course of history in more ways than...
51) Lampedusa
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
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325 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price's Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, as he struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard. In 1955, Tomasi was diagnosed with advanced emphysema; shortly after, he began work on a novel that would fail to be published before his death four years later. When The Leopard at last appeared, it won...
52) The end
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
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9 CDs (10 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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It is August 15, 1953, the day of a street carnival in the Italian enclave of Elephant Park, Ohio, when Rocco LaGrassa receives an excruciating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea. Against the background of immigration, broken loyalties, and racial hostility, the story presents everything Rocco sees through the eyes of various characters in the crowd.
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"It's 1957, and the famed theater critic A.S. Crystal has come to the British seaside resort of Brighton with something other than the local production of A Shilling in the Meter on his mind. Sitting in the Brighton Royal Theater with Constable Twitten, Crystal intends to tell the detective the secret he knows about the still-unsolved Aldersgate Stick-Up case of 1945. And yet, just before Crystal names the criminal mastermind involved, he's shot dead...
54) Night life
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Series
Michael Cassidy novel volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
New York City in 1954. The Cold War is heating up. Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for Communists in America. The newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary US intelligence agency. And the bodies of murdered young men are turning up in the city. Michael Cassidy has an unusual background for a New York cop. His father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, is a successful Broadway producer. His godfather...
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English
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"It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson--a sensible schoolmarm and lonely spinster--is just trying to get through life. But one day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and her tidy, circumscribed life, to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of an insect that may or may not exist: the golden beetle of New Caledonia, Margery's childhood obsession ever since her father gave...
56) Night work
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Michael Cassidy, a New York cop plagued by dreams that sometimes come true, escorts a prisoner accused of murder to Havana on the cusp of Fidel Castro's successful revolution against the Batista dictatorship. After delivering the man to La Cabana prison and rescuing Dylan McCue, a Russian KGB agent and his now-married former lover, from her scheduled execution, Cassidy returns to New York and retreats into the comforts of alcohol and sex. The arrival...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
173, 8 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job--what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As Marilyn's visit unfolds, Alice is forced into a reckoning...
58) External forces
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Series
Marrowbone spells volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
495 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
"London, 1958. By crafting magical outfits for his friend, Princess Katherine, cloth mage Paul Gallagher is getting ahead. It's not a seamless path. Not since the Virtuis Party came to power. The far-right faction is using criminals to create a protective barrier around England. The enchanted uniforms the prisoners wear may beget a demand for mages, but using luckless convicts as tools for warmongering reactionaries isn't Paul's dream for cloth magic....
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 23 cm
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English
Description
"Most nights PI Jack Coffey can be found hanging out in smoky Greenwich Village jazz clubs with well-known mobsters, jazzmen, and hoods. So, when an uptown financier calls him in for a job, it seems like he's headed for tonier climes. But it turns out the view from Louis Garrett's lavish penthouse overlooks the same vice-ridden Manhattan streets, which explains why he's so desperate to find his missing teenage daughter, Lucy. When Jack's search for...
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Winner of the Alfaguara Prize, Guelfenbein's novel revolves around four characters. 80-old Vera Sigall, who has achieved cult status for her fiction, is in a Santiago hospital after a fall, in a "locked-in" paralyzed state. Daniel, a young man hobbled by a foundering career and a failing marriage, addresses Vera directly in the portions of the novel he narrates and does not believe her fall was accidental. The second narrator, Emilia, is a young woman...
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