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  Ticket to Ride

  Inside the Beatles' 1964 and 1965 Tours That Changed the World

  by Larry Kane

  It was 40 years ago today--more or less--that a 22-year-old broadcast journalist from Florida was invited by manager Brian Epstein to travel with the Beatles to every stop on their first North American tours. The only American reporter in the official press party, Larry Kane obtained exclusive, revealing interviews with John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Fortunately, Kane saved his original notes and tapes, and shares... (more)
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  A Woman Named Jackie : An Intimate Biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

  by C. David Heymann

  Based on interviews with over 600 people and access to CIA and FBI files, this biography of Jacqueline Onassis has been updated to include information about her illness and death. The author's biographies of Ezra Pound, and Amy and Robert Lowel, were both nominated for Pulitzer Prizes.
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  The Arrangement

  by Elia Kazan

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  The Living Reed

  by Pearl S. Buck

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  The Tenth Month

  by Laura Keane (Zametkin) Hobson

  For Dori Gray, a second chance at motherhood comes at a high price Dori Gray—married, then divorced, age forty, professional journalist—had given up hope of a child. A botched abortion left her functionally infertile, and after a string of bad relationships, Dori’s prospects have seemingly dwindled to naught. Then comes the astonishing revelation that she is pregnant—by her married ex-lover. Dori’s options... (more)
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  Easy Rawlins: Book 7

  Bad Boy Brawly Brown

  by Walter Mosley

  Racial tensions and America's civil rights movement have previouslyfigured into Walter Mosley's series about sometimes-sleuth Ezekiel "Easy"Rawlins. But Bad Boy Brawly Brown turns what had been a backgroundelement into compelling surface tension. The year is 1964, and though Easy seemssettled into honest work as a Los Angeles custodian, he's having otherproblems--notably, his adopted son's wish to quit school and... (more)
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  Little Miss Strange

  by Joanna Rose

  Follows the life of Sarajean, the child of two love children, who finds herself having to overcome great obstacles at a young age after she is left motherless, but through her journeys to womanhood, she learns about herself and finally gathers the missing pieces of her life. A first novel.
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  Stone Cribs (Smokey Dalton Novels)

  by Kris Nelscott

  It's Christmastime, 1969, in Chicago. After a night out, Smokey Dalton, Kris Nelscott's enigmatic African-American P.I., and his girlfriend find a young woman bleeding to death in his neighbor's apartment. Upon arriving with her at the hospital, they discover that her injuries are due to a botched illegal abortion. This act of charity blooms into a more complicated situation when Smokey learns that the woman... (more)
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  The Air Between Us

  by 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 mix, or so everyone believes. But the truth is brought to the forefront when Billy Ray Puckett, a white man wounded while hunting, shows up at the segregated Doctors Hospital. No one thinks much of his death—just a... (more)
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  Fraternity

  by Diane Brady

  In the fall of 1968, the Reverend John Brooks, a Jesuit priest at Holy Cross college in Massachusetts, made it his mission to recruit a group of African American students to the school. He got in his car and drove up and down the East Coast, searching for young men that he felt had the potential to succeed if given an opportunity. Among the twenty students he had a hand in recruiting that fall were the Supreme... (more)
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  The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  by Milan Kundera

  A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover — these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel... (more)
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  Rabbit Angstrom: Book 1

  Rabbit, Run

  by John Updike

  Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must continue to run--from his wife, his life, and from himself, until he reaches the end of the road and has to turn back....
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  "Takin' It to the Streets"

  A Sixties Reader

  by Alexander Bloom, Wini Breines

  Takin' It to the Streets is a comprehensive collection of original documents covering political, social and cultural aspects of the 1960's, with authors ranging from Malcolm X to Richard Nixon. Drawn from mainstream sources, little known sixties periodicals, public speeches and pamphlets, this anthology brings together writings that have been unavailable for years or have never been reprinted. While paying... (more)
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  Into the DMZ: A Battle History of Operation Hickory, May 1967, Vietnam

  by Mark A. Cauble

  Into The DMZ tells the little-known story of one of the most intense battles of the Vietnam War. It is an account of the courage and endurance of men in combat. The author introduces and concludes this book by examining the battle in context of the Vietna
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  Portnoy's Complaint

  by Philip Roth

  Portnoy's Complaint n. <after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)> A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spievogel says: "Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine... (more)
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  The Big Bang, The Buddha, and the Baby Boom

  by Wes Nisker

  Some deep alternative current has begun flowing out of the spiritual adventures and identity struggles of recent generations. Of course, we didn't create the conditions or questions of this new age; we got caught in them. The ground shifted, the old gods departed, the economic and political utopias crumbled, and the traditional answers were washed away. We didn't leave home; home left us. How did a nice... (more)