Blogs in January 1970

The Broken Hearts Club 1st January 1970

They meet every week in the dingy back room of a bar in New York City. An informal group of men with one thing in common: They all suffer the sting of a broken heart. But soon the anger...

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The Age of Innocence 1st January 1970

Wharton’s story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer’s impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of...

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The Pale Blue Eye 1st January 1970

West Point on the Hudson. A retired New York policeman is called to West Point Military Academy in 1831 to solve a gruesome murder and he seeks the help of cadet, Edgar Allan Poe, to help solve the case.

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Elijah Rising 1st January 1970

A novel seen throught the eyes of two young men, a wealthy white New Yorker, Michael Cooke Holt and black preacher, Elijah Broom. Michael lives off his wealth and during one of his aimless wanderings to pass the time...

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Manhattan Noir 2 (the Classics) 1st January 1970

The collection is divided into three sections. covering the periods 1891 to 2008, short stories under the editorship of Lawrence Block

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