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The Fifties
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David Halberstam |
The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of… |
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Lake Wobegon summer 1956
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Garrison Keillor |
"The Doo Dads are singing "My Girl" on the radio and on the porch of the big green house on Green Street, fourteen-year-old Gary is studying pictures of naked women, aware that Grandpa is looking dow… |
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The piano teacher
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Janice Y. K. Lee |
In the sweeping tradition of The English Patient, a gripping tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong Kong. In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong int… |
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The 1950s
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Stuart A. Kallen |
Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of the United States in the 1950s, including the effects of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, television, music, art, science, and technolo… |
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The air between us
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Deborah Johnson |
Revere, Mississippi, with its population of "20,000 and sinking" is not unlike most Southern towns in the sixties. Black people live on one side of town and whites live on the other. The two rarely m… |
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The season of Lillian Dawes
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Katherine Mosby |
"When he is expelled from boarding school, Gabriel Gibbs is sent to live with his older brother, Spencer, in New York. Rather than a punishment, this becomes an exhilarating invitation to a dazzling … |
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The 1950s
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Richard Tames |
Text and pictures highlight the main events of the 1950s. |
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El laberinto de los espíritus
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
"En la Barcelona de finales de los años 50, Daniel Sempere ya no es aquel niño que descubrió un libro que habría de cambiarle la vida entre los pasadizos del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. El mi… |
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In the unlikely event
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Judy Blume |
In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the… |
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My life in black and white
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Kim Izzo |
Clara Bishop follows her husband to London, determined to win him back. She is traveling with a glamorous wardrobe of vintage clothing inherited from her grandmother, a former film noir actress. Clar… |
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Up west
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Pip Granger |
Do you remember the West End of London during the 1950s? Did you live or work there? If so, I want to hear from you ... This was the advertisement author Pip Granger placed in a local newspaper, and … |
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When I was a nipper
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Alan Titchmarsh |
Alan Titchmarsh takes us to post-War Britain in search of treasured values and traditions that were once the soul of society. With characteristic wit and warmth he draws on his own experiences, down … |
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The red nun
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Gail Godwin |
From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, riva… |
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The 1950s
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Deanne Durrett |
Discusses four major events during the 1950s: the advent of rock and roll music; the integration of schools, buses, and restaurants; the debut of television; and the discovery of a polio vaccine. |
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Wicked City
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Ace Atkins |
**From "one of crime fiction's most interesting and passionate voices" (Laura Lippman) comes a new "noir crime classic" (Mystery Ink) about one of the most notorious towns in American history.**
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Her Brilliant Career
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Cooke, Rachel (Journalist) |
Journalist Rachel Cooke goes back in time to offer an entertaining and iconoclastic look at ten women in the 1950s--pioneers whose professional careers and complicated private lives helped to create … |
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Transcription
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Kate Atkinson,Fenella Woolgar |
BBC radio producer Juliet Armstrong finds herself targeted by dangerous individuals from her past as a World War II espionage monitor for MI5. |
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I see a city
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Todd Webb |
"I See a City: Todd Webb's New York focuses on the work of photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons and in all… |
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The piano teacher
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Janice Y. K. Lee |
"Sometimes the end of a love affair is only the beginning! In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautif… |
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Nemeses (Everyman / Humbling / Indignation / Nemesis)
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Philip A. Roth |
"Published together for the first time as the author intended, Nemeses is a quartet of novels whose terrain is the human body and whose subject, the common experience that terrifies us all"--Publishe… |
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