Blogs in January 1970

On Helwig Street 1st January 1970

Jean Russo was a single mother in the 1950s, badly paid and living with her parents in Gloversville, New York, a dead-end town whose heyday as the hub of the leather-goods industry was just a distant memory. ‘You are...

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A Walk to Remember 1st January 1970

Can you resist the depths of the human heart? It is 1958 and seventeen-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. He is a world apart from shy, reclusive Jamie...

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The Kite Runner 1st January 1970

The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini’s deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s,...

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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt 1st January 1970

Young CeeCee is living in Ohio with a psychotic mother who is under the impression she is still the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. Her father left home, leaving CeeCee to cope with her mother. Her Mother is killed and...

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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 1st January 1970

1986, The Panama Hotel The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during...

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