Blogs in January 1970

Woman of Ill Fame 1st January 1970

Looking for a better life, prostitute Nora Simms arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with a plan for success: to strike it rich by trading on her good looks. But when a string of murders claims several of her...

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Tulip Season 1st January 1970

Kareena Sinha, an Indian-American domestic-violence counselor, disappears from her Seattle home. When the police dismiss suspicions that she herself was a victim of spousal abuse, her best friend, Mitra Basu, a young landscape designer, resolves to find her. Mitra’s...

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When We Were Wolves 1st January 1970

“If you could have been around a hundred and fifty years ago, and passed through the landscape as a beaver-trapping tough with Jim Bridger or Jedediah Smith, before coal barons, before soda ash and oil, before Mormons, before you...

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Monarch Beach 1st January 1970

Also known as The Beach Holiday. Amanda and Andre are married, but she catches him with his arm around his sous-chef and Amanda is now confronted with what her future might look like. She takes off for the beach...

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Wai-nani 1st January 1970

Voice from Ancient Hawaii is a meticulously researched account of the Hawaiian Islands around the time of Captain James Cook. The major theme of the novel is the dismantling of the social hierarchal system based on kapu (taboo) that...

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