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1969's Quinquagenary January 2019
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Dune messiah : Book Two in the Dune Chronicles
by Frank Herbert
The scheming sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit plots to seize control of the galaxy-wide empire of their supernatural leader, while on Arrakis, Paul Atrreides, the Maud'Dib and the heir to an unimaginable power, confronts new challenges, in a new edition of the second volume in the classic Dune Chronicles.
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Dune messiah [sound recording]
by Frank Herbert
The scheming sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit plots to seize control of the galaxy-wide empire of their supernatural leader, whiile on Arrakis, the Maud'dib, the heir to an unimaginable power, confronts new challenges.
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Stonewall : breaking out in the fight for gay rights
by Ann Bausum
The award-winning author of Marching to the Mountaintop presents a history of gay tolerance that traces the progression of civil rights for gay citizens and identifies the prejudices and misconceptions that have criminalized homosexual relationships.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
The critically acclaimed author and poet recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums, in a special anniversary edition of her acclaimed autobiography.
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El Padrino
by Mario Puzo
La publicación de "El padrino" en 1969 supuso una convulsión en el mundo literario, no solo por lo que contaba esta novela sino por cómo lo contaba. Puzo presentaba la Mafia no como una mera asociación de facinerosos, sino como una compleja contrasociedad con una cultura, unas interrelaciones y unas jerarquías comúnmente aceptadas, incluso más allá de los círculos de delincuentes.á El protagonista, Vito Corleone, es el Don más respetado de Nueva York, a donde llegó con solo doce años procedente de Sicilia.
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Papillon
The true story of two men who attempt escape from the French prison on Devil's Island.
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In the shadow of the moon
Chronicles the Apollo space program (1961-1975) and their mission to land on the moon; includes interviews and archival footage.
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Papillon
by Henri Charrière
Presents an account of a man's confrontation with the brutal horrors of the penal colony on Devil's Island and his numerous attempts to escape.
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Live at the Fillmore February 1969
Live at the Fillmore — February 1969 is a live album released by the American rock band The Byrds in 2000 on Columbia Records. This release was compiled from two performances at the famed Fillmore West on February 7 & 8, 1969. The album includes several songs not found on the group's studio albums.
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The Burger Court and the rise of the judicial right
by Michael J Graetz
Drawing on the personal papers of justices as well as other archives, a first-of-its-kind book provides a fresh perspective at the Warren Burger Supreme Court, digging down to the roots of its most significant decisions and shows how their legacy affects us today.
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The sixties, 1960-1969 : 1960-1969
by Paul Monaco
Amid the turbulence of political assassinations, the civil rights struggle, and antiwar protests, American society was experiencing growing affluence and profound cultural change during the 1960s. The film industry gradually redirected its energies, resulting in a distinctive break from traditional business and stylistic practice and emergence of a new "cinema of sensation." Feature films became faster-paced and more graphic, the antihero took his place alongside the classic Hollywood hero, and "downer" films like Midnight Cowboy proved as popular as those with upbeat fare.
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The promise
by Chaim Potok
Two young men--student rabbi Reuven Malter and his old friend, Danny Saunders, who has abandoned his Hasidic traditions to become a psychologist--question the "orthodoxy" of values and religion in a world cut off from their Hasidic traditions.
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The Andromeda strain
by Michael Crichton
A team of scientists races against time to define and contain a deadly bacteria brought back from outer space by a satellite.
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Master and commander
by Patrick O'Brian
The first volume of the Aubrey/Maturin novels introduces Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, in the age of the Napoleonic wars.
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Tommy
Tommy is the fourth studio album by the English rock band The Who. It was first released as a double album on 23 May 1969 by Decca Records.
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The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories
by H. P. Lovecraft
"Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical--and visionary--American writer"
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Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War : the end of the American century
by David F Schmitz
In Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, accomplished foreign relations historian David F. Shmitz provides students of US history and the Vietnam era with an up-to-date analysis of Nixon’s Vietnam policy in a brief and accessible book that addresses the main controversies of the Nixon years.
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Novels, 1969-1974 : Ada or ardor a family chronicle, Transparent things, Look at the harlequins!
by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969), the longest of Nabokov’s novels, is a witty and parodic account of a man’s lifelong love for his sister. All of his favorite themes and most characteristic techniques are woven into this culminating work of Nabokov’s imagination. The linguistic richness of the book’s free blending of English, Russian, and French is matched by the baroque and dreamlike splendor of the alternate universe it creates, a universe in which time moves in more than one direction and all details are cunningly interrelated. Alfred Kazin wrote on its original publication: “Ada, coming after Lolita and Pale Fire, makes a trilogy with no contemporary peer.”
Transparent Things (1972) is a haunting novella of the anguished life of Hugh Person, a young American editor and proofreader: his marriage, the murder of his wife, and the lone journey to uncover the truth about the past. With its multiple narrative voices and fusion of dream and memory, it is among the most formally experimental of Nabokov’s works.
Look at the Harlequins! (1974), Nabokov’s final novel, concerns Vadim Vadimovitch N., a novelist very much like Nabokov himself. This ironic, intricate hall of mirrors, startling in its shifts of tone and off-key echoes of Nabokov’s earlier books, often blurs the line between the worlds of reality and of literary invention.
Nabokov’s penciled corrections in his own copies of his works are incorporated into these, the most authoritative versions available, and have been prepared with the assistance of Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist’s son.
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Sounder
by William Howard Armstrong
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.
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The godfather
by Mario Puzo
A fictional portrait journeys inside the world of the Cosa Nostra and its operations to chronicle the lives and fortunes of Mafia leader Vito Corleone, his family, and his underworld domain.
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Godfather
Traces the story of the Corleone family's rise and near fall from the pinnacle of power in the world of organized crime, and the passage of power from father to son.
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The cay
by Theodore Taylor
Blinded when his ship is torpedoed, Philip is marooned on an island with an elderly West Indian who shows him how to survive and helps him to acquire a new kind of vision.
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Chappaquiddick /
After he drives off a bridge and causes the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, Senator Ted Kennedy turns to his family for legal and moral support.
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