Blogs in January 1970

Forbidden Circles 1st January 1970

It’s 1925, and the Harlem Renaissance has expanded to cities beyond New York. Black writers, musicians, and artists are in vogue and think they can do anything. Nora Johnson, a honey yellow-skinned Howard University instructor, is no exception. Desiring...

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Catch Me 1st January 1970

IN FOUR DAYS, SOMEONE IS GOING TO KILL ME… At 8pm on 21st January, twenty-eight-year-old Charlie Grant believes she is going to be murdered and she wants Boston’s top homicide detective, D.D. Warren, to handle her death investigation. Confronting...

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Ravenscraig 1st January 1970

Romance, scandal, and tragedy grip the lives of two families and threaten to destroy them both in Ravenscraig, by Sandi Krawchenko Altner. Winner of the 2012 Carol Shields Book Award, Ravenscraig, pitches rich against poor in the height of...

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Summer in the South 1st January 1970

After a personal tragedy, Chicago writer Ava Dabrowski quits her job to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee, at the invitation of her old college friend Will Fraser and his two great-aunts, Josephine and Fanny Woodburn. Her charming hosts...

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The Accidental Connoiseur 1st January 1970

An irreverent journey through the wine world, indeed it is. Encompassing some historical detail, he visits several wineries and has some wry observations.

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