Nash seeks slower pace as Baltimore home returns
Ogden Nash, 62, moves back to Baltimore with wife after 13 years in New York. He plans a new poetry volume alongside two children books, working in sparse hours and avoiding lectures to stay lazy as a writer.
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Parents Praised A House of Many Rooms
Rochello Hunter’s family memoir set in Mormon Utah portrays an agrarian village life of early 20th century, praising parental devotion, self-reliance, and kinship in a post polygamous community with one father and one mother among many children.
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The Brothers Harper by Eugene Exman
A readable history of Harper and Brothers from 1853 to its rise as a leading publisher. The study uses their publications and milieu to illuminate social, economic, and political contexts, noting key titles like Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast and Prescott’s Conquest of Mexico.
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Conquest of
Memoir Charley Smiths Girl by Helen Bevington
Helen Bevington recalls childhood in Massachusetts and a troubled family history. The memoir traces early romance, a strained marriage, and the birth of Bevington’s daughter as she grows into a poetess. Dickensian gloom and sharp hardship mark the author’s remembered years.
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Best Sellers on Fiction and History Spotlight
The list highlights best sellers including Up the Down Staircase by Kaufman The Ambassador by West Hotel by Hailey Don’t Stop the Carnival by Work The Source by Michener Markings by Hammarskjold The Oxford History of the American People by Morison Journal of a Soul by Pope John XXIII My Shadow R an Fast by Sands Queen Victoria by Longford.
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Longford
Scamp Of History Beware Of Caesar
A Vincent Sheean novel set around Nero with Seneca letters guiding a plot. Tiggellinus and a praetorian plot strand through a tale of political intrigue and shifting loyalties. The conspirators debate Seneca as ruler or as figurehead while a half formed murder plan looms.
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