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This & That June 2018 In honor of Iselin Branch Library’s 50th Anniversary Bestsellers of 1968
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Airport by Arthur HaileyAs a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endangering thousands of lives. And in the air, a lone plane struggles to reach its destination. Over the course of seven pulse-pounding hours, a tense human drama plays out as a brilliant airport manager, an arrogant pilot, a tough maintenance man, and a beautiful stewardess strive to avert disaster.
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha ChristieWhile visiting Sunny Ridge Rest Home, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford decide to investigate the ramblings of an old woman about a body hidden behind the fireplace.
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Unsolved mysteries of the past by Erich von DanikenThe author attempts to explain such perplexing archaeological discoveries as the stone figures on Easter Island and various temple and cave drawings.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
Captures the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which sophisticated androids, banned from the planet, fight back against their potential destroyers.
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Down the Long Hills by Louis L'AmourThe sole survivors of an Indian massacre, seven-year-old Hardy Collins and three-year-old Betty Sue Powell, are left with only a horse and a knife to overcome starvation, marauding Indians, savage outlaws, and wild animals, and their only hope for survival is the courage they never knew they had.
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeDescribes the escapades of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, a drug-saturated group of hippies who get in and out of trouble with the law.
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Forfeit by Dick FrancisWhen racing columnist James Tyrone is commissioned to write an in-depth study of the Lamplighter horse race, he becomes involved in the mysterious death of another sportswriter and a racing scandal. .
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The Johnstown Flood by David G. McCulloughA graphic account of the collapse of a poorly constructed dam and the resulting flood which killed 2,000 people and caused a nationwide scandal.
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Lessons of history by Will DurantA concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ideas, and accomplishments with cycles of war and conquest, the Durants reveal the towering themes of history and give meaning to our own.
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Sun Signs by Linda GoodmanAn astrologist describes ways to identify people born under different signs and to predict or analyze personality traits.
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Lisa, Bright and Dark by John NeufeldSixteen-year-old Lisa, smart, attractive, and outwardly successful, suffers from a nervous breakdown that only her closest friends seem to notice and care enough about to try and find a way to help her.
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MASH by Richard HookerHot Lips Houlihan, Hawkeye Pierce, Radar O'Reilly, and other familiar characters make their first appearance in this Korean War novel about the crazy antics of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
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Myra Breckinridge by Gore VidalWritten as a diary, Myra Breckinridge, someone determined not to be possessed by any man, recounts her day as she lives it out in the Hollywood of the '60s. Feminism, transsexuality, and a host of cinematic jokes abound.
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A Small Town in Germany
by John Le Carre
One junior diplomat and forty-three of the British Embassy's most confidential files are missing and Alan Turner must find them before the politically explosive background of neo-Nazi riots and radical student demonstrations erupts.
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James BaldwinTells of Leo Proudhammer, an ailing actor, who looks back on his life from Harlem to Broadway, his love affairs with a white woman and a black man, and his racial struggles.
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A collection of short works by Kurt VonnegutA collection of twenty-five short works by the American author written between 1950 and 1968 and originally printed in a wide range of publications including "The Atlantic Monthly," "Esquire," and "Ladies' Home Journal."
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A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinA boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
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