Blogs in January 1970

Man and Other Natural Disasters 1st January 1970

Simon restores books. Minerva arrives to streamline the process, and bares a striking resemblance to his sister (who died through fire). Simon is coming to terms with tremendous loss within his family – he finally snaps arriving home one...

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Orange County Noir 1st January 1970

These noir stories take readers on a hard-boiled tour behind the Orange curtain where a reclusive rock star has lived way too long in his own head, a crooked judge uses the court for illicit means, a cab driver...

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Snow in August 1st January 1970

In 1940s Brooklyn, friendship between an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy and an elderly Jewish rabbi might seem as unlikely as, well, snow in August. But the relationship between young Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch is only one of...

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Chicago 1st January 1970

A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound. Among the players are an atheistic anti-establishment American professor of the sixties...

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When We Were Strangers 1st January 1970

Irma Vitale is a young woman in Abruzzo, her Mother dead, her father an alcoholic and she takes the opportunity to sail for America. This is the story of emigration to a new land and what awaits her and...

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