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"In the hospital recovering from a stab wound, 15-year old Dennis Foley has far too much time on his hands. He can only stare at the ceiling tiles and study the beige painted walls for so long. Foley is forced to confront his past and examine the path that almost led to his death. Chicago's Southside neighborhoods of the 1960 s and 1970 s spring to life in this mem-fic (part memoir-part fiction), where Foley intertwines stories about his drunken father...
63) Macbeth
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"Lata 70., skorumpowane miasto pełne przestępców. Macbeth, jeden z niewielu nieprzekupnych policjantów, jest dowódcą jednostki specjalnej. Po brawurowej akcji wymierzonej w handlarzy narkotyków zaczyna piąć się po szczeblach kariery. Wspiera go Lady, piękna i wpływowa właścicielka kasyna. Mężczyzna sam w młodości zmagał się z problemem narkotykowym, ale uzależnienie od wladzy okazuje się bardziej niebezpieczne..."--Page 4 of...
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"On a small farm beside a lake in Minnesota's north woods an old man is waiting for the Rapture, which God has told him will happen in two weeks, on August 19, 1974. When word gets out, Last Days Ranch becomes ground zero for The End, drawing zealots, curiosity seekers, and reporters-among them the prophet's son, a skeptical New York writer suddenly caught between his overbearing father and the news story of a lifetime. Into the mix comes Melanie...
65) The secret
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Mary has been nursing a secret. Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path of someone she holds dear. Beth is searching for answers. She has never known the truth about her parentage, but finding out could be the lifeline her sick child so desperately needs. When Beth finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother's things, she realises the key to her son's future lies in her own past. She...
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Colección compactos volume 251
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A tale set in 1970s suburbia follows the experiences of a group of teenage boys whose lives have been irrevocably changed by their desire to save five doomed sisters who have been isolated by their parents.
73) Casa de furia
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"Es abril de 1970 y la imponente casa de los Caicedo, ubicada en uno de los barrios más distinguidos de Bogotá, se prepara para celebrar el aniversario de boda de los patriarcas de la familia: Alma Santacruz y el magistrado Nacho Caicedo. El día y los festejos avanzan, al mismo tiempo que un desfile de variados personajes--que entran y salen del lugar--entrelazan sus historias y sellan sus destinos en la vida, el placer y la muerte. Con ritmo vertiginoso...
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"Experience the women's movement as it spreads through Riverdale! Relive the bicentennial! Witness the emergence of patches, pet rocks, and CBs! Play along with the "Pong"! Boogie with Archie and the gang at the disco and laugh again at the antics of America's #1 teenagers" -- p. [4] of cover.
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Un faro abandonado, tres hombres desaparecidos y un misterio imposible. Cornualles, 1972. En la víspera de Año Nuevo, un barco con el relevo prometido a los fareros Arthur Black, Billy Walker y Vincent Bourne llega a la Roca de la Doncella, a kilómetros de la costa, pero nadie sale a recibir la embarcación. No hay rastro alguno de los hombres. La puerta de la torre está cerrada por dentro. Todos los relojes se han detenido a la misma hora. El...
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In 1978, two men and a woman traveled from Key West to the small town of Green Island on the northern coast of Jamaica. Seeking a holiday, they were instead turned upside down by a heady mixture of mushrooms, madness, and magic. Far from a travelogue, Green Island is author David Khan Johnson's story of worlds colliding on a muddy road up into the hills. Set to a reggae soundtrack and filtered through a thick cloud of ganja, it's a time when thunder...
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Library of America volume 328
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"This volume brings together three novels by one of the most spellbinding writers of his generation, suspenseful masterworks that brilliantly capture the desperate underside of American life in the 1970s and 80s." -- $c Provided by publisher.
79) 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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""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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