Blogs in January 1970

Buddhaland Brooklyn 1st January 1970

As he approaches his fortieth birthday, the introverted monk Seido Oda is ordered by his superior to leave behind his peaceful, quiet refuge in the remote mountains of Japan and set up a temple in Brooklyn’s Little Calabria. There...

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The Homecoming of Samuel Lake 1st January 1970

A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café. It’s 1956 and Samuel Lake, a handsome preacher, is voted out of his ministry by yet another congregation, disappointed by his...

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A Drink before the War 1st January 1970

Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston’s Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple...

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Market Street 1st January 1970

Cassie Blake is the heiress to Fenton’s, San Francisco’s most exclusive department store. After the revelation of her husband Aidan’s affair with a student, she searches out her friend Alexis at Presidio Heights mansion, and has some soul searching...

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Gunpowder Green 1st January 1970

Tea shop owner Theodosia Browning knows that something’s brewing in the high society of Charleston-something other than her newest tea… The Indigo Tea Shop, Charleston’s favorite spot of tea, has just come out with its latest flavor: Gunpowder Green....

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