The Other America and The Devil's Backbone in Review
Michael Harrington argues 40 to 50 million Americans live in poverty with unequal living standards while Jonathan Daniels chronicles the Natchez Trace in McGraw Hills American Trails Series. The works explore class inequality and historic trails across the United States.
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America
Michael Harrington
Harrington
Macmillan
United States
Jonathan Daniels
McGraw- Hill
A. B. Guthrie Jr
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Nashville
Daniels
Atlantic Seaboard States
Natchez Trace
Return of the Wartime Flier in a South Pacific Romance
James Ramsey Ullman presents Mitchell Carr returning from war to work in the South Pacific. He reconnects with a former love’s likeness, discovers a son, and faces islander culture changes and stigma. The novel blends romance with colonial hotel upheaval and a nurse’s medical arc.
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South Pacific
Ullman
Mitchell Carr
Goodby
America
Tiara
Lovana
Poems By Frost IN THE CLEARING review excerpt
Poet Robert Frost at 88 celebrates a new collection IN THE CLEARING from Holt Rinehart with poems dated through 1962. The volume includes The Gift Outright and verses reflecting New England nature, modern tech, atomic age concerns, and faith clusters, ending with modest self deprecation.
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Robert Frost
Holt Rinehart
Frost
New England
Lone and intertwined lives in Yates stories
Richard Yates collects eleven tales in Alone Eleven Kinds of Lone Liness. The set explores loneliness within vibrant life through characters a fostered slum boy, a devoted yet strained teacher, a war veteran, and a drill sergeant among others. The critic notes high craft and singles out Builders as outstanding.
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Yates
Nine Hours to Rama and the Gandhi Assassination
Stanley Wolpert probes the 30 January 1948 murder of Mohandas Gandhi by Nathuram Godse. The novel traces nine hours of chaos in postcolonial India with key figures including Rani Vishnu Apte Gopal Das P K and GurujI. The author portrays Gandhi as feeling his nonviolent project failed and facing his fate.
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Mahatma Ghandi
Nataram Godse
India
Ghandi
Rani
Nataram
Vishnu Apte
Gopal Das
P. K
Dhondo
Guruji
Wolpert
Mahatma
The View From Russia by Thomas P Whitney
Thomas P Whitney recounts nine years in the Soviet Union from 1937 to postwar 1950s, his visa battles to bring wife Yulya to the United States, and his AP correspondence. His memoir critiques American press coverage and reflects on Soviet life, censorship, and enduring respect for Russians despite warnings.
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Russia
Thomas P. Whitney
Reynal
Morrow
Amherst
Columbia
Ohio
University of California
Soviet Union
Yulya
Julie
Whitney
U. S
United States
Associated Press
Stalin
America
Moscow
Blood of the Lamb a Tragic Masterpiece by De Vries
Peter De Vries crafts a first person tale of a man crushed by loss and leukemia in his daughter. The novel traces faith's collapse and return with wry, bittersweet humor, presenting a narrator who blends folly and agony into a courageous spirit.
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Peter de Vries
Little, Brown
de Vries
CURRENT Best Sellers
List of top selling books across fiction and non fiction titles. Notable entries include Franny and Zooey by Salinger and To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee. Nonfiction selections feature The Making of the President 1960 by White and My Life in Court by Nizer.
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Franny and
Zooey
Salinger
Stone
Nizer
Costain
Lederer
Artist Davis Sorokin Displays Paintings Over Blood Donation Tables
Tucson reports artist Davis Sorokin has found an ideal venue as the Red Cross hangs his paintings from the ceiling above blood donor tables, creating art amid the donation process.
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Tucson
Ariz
Davis Sorokin
The
Red Cross
A Dark Corner Massacre at Montsegur
Zoe Oldenbourg’s historical study portrays the Albigensian crusade, Cathar beliefs, and the brutal sieges led by Simon de Montfort, ending at Montsegur. The reviewer notes strong sympathetic bias toward Cathars and frames the work as a severe yet absorbing historical inquiry.
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Montsegur
Zoe Oldenbourg
Pantheon
Provence
France
Toulouse
Legion of Innocents
Miss Oldenbourg
Simon de Montfort
St. Bernard
Languedoc
R. J. Cappon
Music notes on orchestra focus and historic piano stage pose
The article defends music as a premier academic discipline highlighting orchestras in education and notes a Indianapolis Symphony concert at High Point College. It recalls Alma Mahler on mood, Meyerbeer promoter tactics with Dinorah, Dussek's stage innovation, Chopin's joke, and widespread instrument scholarships nationwide.
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Dinorah
Paris
Meyerbeer
Jan Ladislav Dussek
Prague
Chopin
Constance Gladkowska
The Art of Thinking by Dagobert D Run es
A brisk critique of mass thinking by Dagobert D. Run es argues mindsets driven by emotion. The volume presents short essays challenging legal codes history religion and modern art with a blunt non nonsense tone.
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Dagobert D. Runes
Philosophical Library
Runes
Bookmobile Schedule for High Point Public Library
High Point Public Library releases the bookmobile schedule for March 26 to 30. Monday visits College Village Shopping Center and Emerywood area at Hillcrest and Emery, plus Gatewood Council and Overbrook at Emerywood. Tuesday includes Carr Kennedy, Rotary Westwood, Otteray Rotary, Rockspring Eaton Place, Brantley Circle W Farriss. Wednesday lists College Village Shopping Center Hedrick Ashe English Oakwood Rotary Ridgecrest. Thursday and Friday show no service as it is the fifth week.
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High Point Public Library
College Village
Council
Gatewood
Emery
Hillcrest
Overbrook
Emerywood
Kennedy
Carr
Rotary
Westwood
Otteray
Rockspring
Eaton Place
Brantley Circle
W. Farriss
Hedrick
Ashe
Oakwood
Ridgecrest
Nail Down Home Ownership for Yourself
When you consider buying or building a home, three facts guide you. Over a million home loans yearly come from 4200 insured savings and loan associations like Perpetual. In High Point more than 3400 families are becoming owners with Perpetual financing.
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Savings & Loan
Perpetual
High Point
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Va'ina
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Richard Yates
Atlantic
Stanley Wolpert
Random House
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Caldwell
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
High Point College Memorial Auditorium
Community Concert Asia
Alma Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Mahler
Z. Melnikov
Aew Loan Association
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