The Tontine by Thomas Costain
The two volume novel The Tontine is a best seller and Liter Guild October selection. It blends history and fiction centered on the Waterloo era and a family fortune built through a modern tontine style investment.
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Main Garden City
Doubleday
Thomas B. Costain
Costain
Pnd
Gusta Nover
Great Waterloo Tontine
Alie Grace
Isabel Corboy
Helen Groody
Battle of
Waterloo
Samuel
England
London
Notable Book List Across Multiple Genres and Topics
A catalog of forthcoming library additions spans childcare, science, travel, war Europe today, biographies, and fiction. Notable authors include Levinson, Hoyle, Churchill, Benes, and Leach, with titles ranging from practical handbooks to adventures and biographical studies.
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Hoyle
Durrell
Verrill
Greave
Craige
Passey
Cookie Pater
Duncan
Home Builder's Handbook
Lowrie
Brown
Brandt
Flanagan
Moore
Marianne
Leach
Ethel Merman Story Skips Birth Tale to Stage Triumph
The book profiles Ethel Merman telling her rise from little initial film support to stage success. It notes hit shows like Red Hot and Blue Anything Goes Girl Crazy and Call Me Madam. It mentions marriages to Bob LeVitt and Bob Six and her longing for family. Warner Bros initially miscast her early years before later finding fitting film roles.
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Ethel Merman
Miss Merman
Madam
Perle Mesta
Annie Get Your Gun
Bob Levitt
Bob Six
Zimmermanns
Ethel
Frank
Warner Brothers
Almanac weather and era from Old Farmer's Almanac
The column reviews the Old Farmer's Almanac and its weather forecasts across years. It recalls a Providence clerk's 1900 accuracy, notes 1797 items, and mocks January 1956 expectations with humorous asides on temperance cartoons and ghost stories.
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Providence
RK. L
Weather Bureau
F. C. Crawford
City clinic chief jokes he may be first patient
Grand Rapids official Morris Barrett, director of the alcoholics clinic, quips he may be his first patient as legal and financial hurdles delay the clinic’s opening. He says efforts to start the facility are straining resources and testing resolve.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Morris Barrett
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Thomson
Raymond
MacIver
Rochford
Bridges
Greensboro Lodge No
Reche
William
Beebe
Baldwin
Paradise
Ceee Shaese Izzard
Cloete
Europe
Beringause
Brooks Adams
Cannon
Bishop Cannon
Strode
Jefferson Davis
Hays
Will H
Knox
Lecomte
Boulle
Carey
Cooper
Haden- Dickens
Wang. Moreno
Fowler
Grace
Aa Graham
Heyer
Holt
Jefferis
Kennelly
Klaas
Laing
Jonathan Eagle
Mann
Felix Krull
Mannin
Tiberius
Matthiessen
Mercer
Russell
Bertrand
Pete Martin
New Son Doubleday & Co
Simenon
M. Bouvet
Stewart
Dennis
Mame
Tracy
Warners
Bo Anter
Leon Burnett
Justice of the Peace
Rur
Robby
Fogo
Fame
Robert M. Thomas
Mr. Sagendorph
Ward Street
America
Perpetual
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