Publication Date: May 31, 2002
Better World Books Reading Challenge — An anthology of poetry
Published in 1977, Love is a Dog from Hell is an anthology of poetry written in the 1970s by the German-American poet, Charles Bukowski.
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Publication date: May 25, 2010
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter, is about a series of riots broke out at the Stonewall Inn in response to a raid by the New York Police Vice Squad Public Morals Division from June 28 to July 3, 1969. Continue reading Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
Movie Released: December 10, 1965 | DVD Release Date: November 26, 2014
In A Patch of Blue (1965), Gordon (Sidney Poitier), a black man, and Selina (Elizabeth Hartman), a blind, white teenager, fall in love in the racially charged 1960s.
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Release Date: December 23, 2014
Here Comes the Night by Joel Selvin is the tragic story of a key personality in the 1960s and comprehensive account of the Rhythm and Blues business. Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues covers a myriad of popular artists and the surprising hidden stories of their careers and most popular songs.
Publication Date: October 4, 2014
In Whatever Happened to Mourning Free? by Yael Politis, Charlene Conner has just graduated from the University of Michigan. Her mother has recently died and her father fled from Dearborn to Grand Rapids. The task of preparing the family home for sale falls to Charlene. Charlene has long felt a connection with her great-great-great aunt Olivia. When a lawyer shows up at her door with information about Olivia, will Charlene find out whatever happened to Mourning Free? Whatever Happened to Mourning Free? is the third novel in the Olivia series.
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Publication Date: July 7, 2011
The Woman Who Drew by Nancy Wait is a personal author’s account. Nancy’s mother told her that her birth was a result of revenge for World War II but Nancy has always known that there was more. Nancy finds in her life, clues to her own mystery. In her engaging memoir, she tells readers how she came to be who she is and how she came to uncover the depths of The Nancy Who Drew: The Memoir That Solved A Mystery.
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Publication Date: November 30, 2005 (re-released December 10, 2013)
In Places in Time by Maxine Rose Schur, Maxine and her husband embarked on a worldwide trip as a young married couple. Places in Time: Reflections on a Journey is a look back to a trip understood in reflection and at the people met and lessons learned through travel.
Publication Date: December 31, 2013
In The Favorite by Franklyn C. Thomas, Michael Dane is a boxer fresh out of prison and the favorite to win the Championship when he starts having second thoughts about his trainer and career. That he is not his own man in his current career path is becoming increasingly apparent. Michael turns to the trainer that raised him in an attempt to turn to his roots, but with the vicious men on his trail, Michael is starting to wonder if death is truly the only way out.
Publication Date: August 25, 2013
Always the groomsman and never the groom is Bobby Bo’s way of life. Wedding Chronicles tracks Bobby Bo through 13 wedding and relates to the readers what he learns along the way. Wedding Chronicles is the first novel in a planned trilogy.
Publication Date: January 10, 2013
In The Unfaithful Seven by Alasdair Smith, Louis Cameron, one of Glasgow’s leading property developers, bribed an official that he didn’t have to bribe. Louis discovers that his planning permits would have been approved without the bribe. The man who took the money is found hanging in his apartment. Louis vows to get the money back no matter what and brings in John Quinn, a nobody who Louis believes was a good friend of the politician, to help. Jack Robinson, the owner of the land to be developed, also gets word of the half a million and with the help of his sidekick, Bannie McKenzie, plans to get the money first. It’s a race to the cash in this Scottish crime caper.