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1) Bluesman
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In the summer of 1967, Vietnam seems a long way off to eighteen-year-old amateur blues musician Leo Suther. With one more year of high school to go he still has a lot to learn. He finds himself in the middle of a consuming love affair with Allie Donovan, and an intense testing of his political values by her father, who challenges him on the escalating Vietnam conflict and forces him to examine just where he stands in relation to the people in his...
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John Medina series volume 1
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Family secrets and murder converge in this captivating and suspenseful romance from New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard.
Some secrets need to be told...
Still reeling from her mother's recent death, Karen Whitlaw is stunned when she receives a package containing a mysterious notebook from her estranged father, whom she has barely seen since his return from the Vietnam War decades ago. Then, a shocking phone call: Karen's father has been...
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"This memoir is based on the detailed journal Claudia Krich, a U.S. aid worker, kept during the North Vietnamese capture of Saigon in 1975. A co-director of an American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) humanitarian program, Krich was one of only three American women to remain in Saigon after the U.S. withdrawal, and readers glean insights into what happened in Saigon in the first days and months after the Americans had left Saigon and the North Vietnamese...
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Author Keith Maillard received critical acclaim with his novel Gloria, which told the story of a young woman on the cusp of womanhood in a town called Raysburg, West Virginia. In this book, The Clarinet Polka, Maillard turns that same eagle-eyed attention to the other side of the tracks of that very same town and creates a stunning portrait of Polish America and of one man's struggle to find meaning in his life and roots.
The year is 1969, and young...
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A student journalist's photographic memoir of events surrounding the 1970 Kent State shootings
Working as a photographer for the Kent State University student newspaper and yearbook, Howard Ruffner was a college sophomore when the tragic shootings of May 4, 1970, occurred-a tragedy that left four students dead and nine others wounded. Asked to serve as a stringer for Life magazine in the days leading up to May 4, as student protests against the...
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2025.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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On May 8, 1970, construction workers in NYC violently clashed with students protesting the Vietnam War, signaling the emergence of a new kind of class divide. HARD HAT RIOT chronicles a struggling city, a flailing president and a bloody juncture when the nation diverged -- culminating in a new political and cultural landscape that radically redefined American politics. From AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
