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THE FIRE NEXT TIME
James Baldwin
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J.F.K.: THE MAN AND THE MYTH
Victor Lasky
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THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH
Jessica Mitford
THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH
by Jessica Mitford · Simon & Schuster
3 wks on list
... Here is a whole complex of commercial operations that result in funerals whose expense, display and mumbo jumbo are unrelated to any Christian or Jewish tradition and virtually unheard of in any other country today. And there is precise information on what is being done to lower the cost and raise the dignity of burial in the United States.
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THE WINE IS BITTER
Milton S. Eisenhower
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RASCAL
Sterling North
RASCAL
by Sterling North · E.P. Dutton
5 wks on list
The author's carfree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.
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THE DAY THEY SHOOK THE PLUM TREE
Arthur H. Lewis
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THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT
Hedda Hopper with James Brough
THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT
by Hedda Hopper with James Brough · Doubleday
30 wks on list
From the dawn of the studio system to the decade it all came crashing down, Hedda Hopper was one of the Queens of Hollywood. Although she made her name as a star of the silent screen, she found her calling as a gossip columnist, where she had the ear of the most powerful force in show business: the public. With a readership of 20,000,000 people, Hopper turned nobodies into stars, and brought stars to their knees. And in this sensational memoir, she tells all. (Goodreads)
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HAPPINESS IS A WARM PUPPY
Charles M. Schulz
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.