Flood by Robert Penn Warren noted as romance of our time
A critical preview of Flood set in Tennessee and a small town facing a man made lake. Brad Toliver and Yasha Jones return to Fiddlersburg to film a story while old memories of family, marriage, and friends shape the tale. Warren’s craft and melodrama are praised before noting the plot’s decline.
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Flood
Random House
Warren
South
West Tennessee
Nashville
Memphis
Fiddlersburg
Bradwell Tolliver
Yasha Jones
Brad Tolliver
Brad
Maggie
Calvin Fiddler
Lettice
New York City
Hollywood
Adventure KIND-HEARTED TIGER by Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert Stuart and Alan Levy recount a brutal period in wartime China from 1938 onward. The memoir follows Stuart, born in England and hardened in Australia, as he works in a dangerous Hong Kong mine and joins guerrilla fighters against the Japanese.
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Gilbert Stuart
Alan Levy
Little. Brown
Stuart
China
England
Australia
Hong Kong
Margaret
Climbers Four Against Everest by Sayre
Weodrow Wilson Sayre recounts a 1962 Everest ascent attempt by four amateurs, led by Sayre and Boston lawyer Norman Hansen with Tufts students Roger Hart and Hanpeter Cuttle. Their low-budget, high-risk trek without oxygen or Sherpa guidance nears disaster but ends with survival on the North Face, amid grit, luck, and scarce supplies.
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Weodrow Wilson Sayre
Prentice Hall
Sayre
Guardian Angels
Mt. Everest
Tufts
Norman C. Hansen
Boston
Roger A. Hart
Hanpeter Cuttle
Tibet
Bookmobile Routes Weekly Schedule Highlights Local Centers
The schedule lists daily bookmobile stops across College Village, Pine Valley, Oakview, Futrelle, Ingleside, Old Winston, Parkside, Tabor, E Lexington, Lindale, Gordon, Cedrow, Barbee, North Drive, Woodrow, Blain, Terrell, Willard, Ellwood and Wendell. Times span 9:30 to 4:45 with multiple daily blocks listed by day.
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Pine Valley Road
Marywood
Oakview Road
Woodview
Bridges Street
Futrelle
Ingleside
Westover
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Parkside
Clover Drive
Tabor Street
Dayton
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E. College
Lindale
Locust
Gordon
Kimrey
Cedrow Avenue
Arlington
Barbee
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W. College
North Drive
Woodrow
Forrest
Blain
Farriss
Terrell Drive
Kimmons
Willard Street
Gordon Road
Ellwood Drive
Wendell Street
Washington's Generals in Loyalist Shadows Discussed
A critical survey of George Washington’s generals by Marcus Cunliffe and colleagues, examining Nathanael Greene Horatio Gates Benedict Arnold Henry Knox and others. It weighs leadership, character, and the political context of the American Revolution.
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George Athen Billabs
Merrow
B. Morris
McKay
Yorktown
Nathaniel Greene
Henry Knox
Marcus Cunliffe
Rhode Island
Nathanael Greene
John Sullivan
Connecticut
Benedict Arnold
New England
Benjamin Lincoln
France
Marquis de Lafayette
Boston
Pennsylvania
Anthony Wayne
Daniel Morgan
Princeton
John Shy
Charles Lee
Portrait of a General by William B Willcox review
The biography Portrait of a General portrays Sir Henry Clinton as a gifted yet frustrated commander. After 20 years decoding Clinton’s papers, Willcox collaborates with a psychiatrist to interpret his contradictory traits. Clinton allies view him as bold in advice yet timid when in sole command. upbringing and family quirks shaped his faltering execution and relentless planning that rarely materialized.
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William B. Willcox
Knopf
Henry Clinton
United States
Clinton
Michigan
General Howe
Metropolitan to stage Levy opera based on Mourning Becomes Electra
The Metropolitan announced Marvin David Levy will have his new opera produced in the 1966-67 season at Lincoln Center with libretto by Henry Butler. Funded by the Ford Foundation, readings of acts guided the decision, and rights were secured from Carlotta Monterey O’Neill.
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Metropolitan Opera House
Marvin David Levy
Rudolhf Bing
Metropolitan
Levy
Eugene O’neill
Lincoln Center
Henry Butler
Ford Foundation
Bing
Carlotta Monterey O'Neill
Best Sellers: Spy Who Came in From the Cold and More
A listings page highlights fiction titles including The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre The Group by McCarthy The Venetian Affair by MacInnes The Wapshot Scandal by Cheever and Von Ryan's Express by Westheimer Nonfiction titles include Four Days by UPI American Heritage A Day in the Life of President Kennedy by Bishop Profiles in Courage by Kennedy Diplomat Among Warriors by Murphy Green Felt Jungle by Reid and Demaris.
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le Carre
GROUP
McCarthy
Macinnes
Cheever von Ryan
Fresh Insight at the Letters of Wyndham Lewis
Alan Pryce-Jones lauds this collection edited by W K Rose, detailing Wyndham Lewis through 40 years of letters. The volume highlights his sharp edge, cosmopolitan scope, and complex stance from fascist flirtations to anti Hitler resolve, with correspondents including Eliot, Pound, Tate, Campbell, and MacNeice.
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Wyndham Lewis
W. K. Rose
New Directions
London
the Eiffel Tower
Stulik
Augustus John
Eugene Goossens
Osbert Sitwell
Lewis
Pall Mall Safe Deposit
Rose
Tate Gallery
Edith Sitwell
T. $. Eliot
Tarr
the Childermass
T. S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
Allen Tate
Roy Campbell
Sir Nicholas
Lady Waterhouse
Louis MacNeice
England
Braque
Kandinsky
Ross
Hitler
Alps
Roosevelt
China
Peru
Alan Pryce-Jones
Lost Buddw ing Amnesia Odyssey in New York City
Evan East er presents a tale of Sam who wakes in Central Park with no memory and wanders through Manhattan playfully recollecting clues. He meets Doris the psychoanalyst, teams with a sailor, and enters a Harlem crap game and an Italian wedding as clues to his identity emerge, culminating in a gradual solution.
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Evan Easter
Simson and Schuster
Central Park
Manhattan
Sam
Doris
Sally
Tina
Greenwich Village
Grace
Harlem
Stories Collected Short Stories by Robert Graves
A Doubleday collection of 30 Graves short stories from 1924 onward. The author selects varied pieces, focusing on strong narrative over impressionism. The English section opens with supernatural hints and includes schoolroom humor, a veteran in the Antarctic, and World War I tales such as Christmas Truce. Neat vignettes offer subtle, compact reading across hours.
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Robert Graves
Doubleday
Graves
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