Blogs in January 1970

Salt City 1st January 1970

Syracuse, upstate New York. The “Salt City.” An apartment building on the edge of The Projects – and Anne Malloy dies, flying out of a sixth floor window, an apparent suicide, while Mark Cornell watches. Mark was there for...

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Bitter in the Mouth 1st January 1970

The teen heroine of her second novel is different from the other girls in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Not only are the walls of her bedroom decorated in manly maritime prints, but she suffers from “auditory-gustatory” synesthesia. There are...

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Badlands Saloon 1st January 1970

Told from the point of view of a young man on the edge of his life looking off to discover his path, this book is filled with wonderful characters, set in a beautiful landscape.

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Mocha, Moonlight and Murder 1st January 1970

Instead of feeding her late-night appetite, a midnight food run nearly gets 28-year-old Katherine O’Brian killed. She’s the only person to see the man who brutally murdered a local woman, and the killer is hell-bent on making sure she...

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The Book of Dead Birds 1st January 1970

Hye-yang is a dutiful daughter in a Korean village where the women are ocean divers. But prostitution awaits her until an American takes her over to live in the States. Here she becomes Helen, and has a daughter –...

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