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""Arlen's Gun" centers on an alienated and angry young man from the worst streets of Baltimore. The Vietnam War is raging and, virtually certain to be drafted, he's persuaded by a friend to avoid that fate by volunteering for the Air Force. Both end up in Vietnam, his friend in a comfortable administrative job while he becomes a gunner on an AC-47 gunship. His attitude isolates him from the crew members, and the nature of the gunship's mission isolates...
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When San Francisco police forced their way into the barricaded apartment of a condemned building on Octavia Street the morning of June 21, 1973, they discovered the decaying bodies of four people: the first of what was to become an epidemic of group suicides. The Literate Dead, as this group came to be known by the press, would be better remembered today had the publication of their works not been indefinitely postponed in the wake of the Patty Hearst...
83) Fistful of rain
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Ty Dawson volume 2
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FISTFUL OF RAIN is the sequel to 2017's South California Purples. Set in 1975, it is the story of a nation, a rural county, and a small town coming to terms with turbulent change. The theft of a rancher's livestock ends in an assault that escalates into arson, and the murders of nearly a dozen people. Residents of a "hippie" commune are accused of having committed the acts that have led the small county to the brink of a range war, and of feeding...
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"In 1970s Osaka, college student Tetsuyuki moves into a shabby apartment to evade his late father's creditors. But the apartment's electricity hasn't been reconnected yet, and Tetsuyuki spends his first night in darkness. Wanting to hang up a tennis cap from his girlfriend, Yko, he fumbles about in the dark and drives a nail into a pillar. The next day he discovers that he has pierced the body of a lizard, which is still alive. He decides to keep...
85) Eastman was here
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"New York, 1973. Alan Eastman--washed-up writer, public intellectual, husband, father, and philanderer--has hit the rock bottom. Once a revered man of letters, he now finds himself alone on the floor of his study, reeling from the sudden departure of his wife and bemoaning his faded glory. But when he receives an unexpected phone call from an old rival, he discovers the solution to all of his problems: he will fly to Saigon to write the definitive...
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1975. After five years serving his country in Vietnam, Ronald Washington III has returned home to Harlem. He's haunted by what he was forced to do to survive, but manages to adjust back to society. His brother Lester was left in charge of the neighborhood, but things have changed. As Ronald (a.k.a. "Big Ron") enjoys his first good meal since coming home, things start to go horribly wrong. Someone is after his brother, and their family pays a...
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Blond haired, blue-eyed Butterfly Wilson and coffee colored Maria Butler were as different as night and day, but became fast friends as teenagers. Scarsdale had very few black families in the 70's and each child had her own struggles trying to fit in. Despite many differences and arguments, each relied on the other for friendship. When after 15 years their bond is severed, the feeling is mutually hostile. Butterfly-- now dethroned beauty queen-turned-actress,...
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"1971: la pequeña ciudad estadounidense de Camel City se cimbra cuando la heredera de un emporio multimillonario desaparece de su habitación en un exclusivo internado para señoritas. En los hechos podría estar involucrada su vecina de cuarto, una mexicana llamada Rosario Navarro. Mientras el ambiente político se enrarece, la policía sigue pistas cada vez más ominosas. 1973: en Sinaloa, el profesor de Derecho Bernardo Ayala intenta disuadir...
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Panorama de narrativas volume 1069
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Una novela nostálgica, dulce, culta y encantadora, atemporal, con la que vuelve un Jonathan Coe cargado de sensibilidad y oficio.A sus cincuenta y siete, la carrera como compositora de bandas sonoras de Calista Frangopoulou, griega afincada en Londres desde hace décadas, no pasa por su mejor momento. Tampoco lo hace su vida familiar: su hija Ariane se va a estudiar a Australia, sin que aparentemente eso la entristezca del mismo modo que entristece...
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