Blogs in January 1970

Dial Tone 1st January 1970

Sam Thompson accepts an assignment in Glasgow, Kentucky managing a small rural telephone company. He soon discovers that the comptroller, John Stanko, embezzled nearly a million dollars, and launched a hostile takeover bid to conceal his theft. In Stanko’s...

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Divas Las Vegas 1st January 1970

Jamie and Izzy, friends for ever, have a dream: a spangly double wedding in Las Vegas. And, at twenty-seven, they decide they’ve had enough crap boyfriends and they’re ready for crap husbands – all they have to do is...

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Half a Life 1st January 1970

`Half my life ago, I killed a girl.’ Thus starts the hard hitting opening of this book, an autobiography of how he was driving his Dad’s car, in May 1988 on a road on Long Island. A day out,...

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Harbor Nocturne 1st January 1970

Set in San Pedro, a southern district of Los Angeles and one of the world’s busiest ports. Dinko Babich and Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from a local topless bar start building up a relationship, a life together fraught...

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Property 1st January 1970

Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans, but most of all, she longs to be free of the...

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