Middletown Library Craft Festival March 7
Middletown Public Library announces a March 7 craft festival in the community room. Registration opens the day before for local residents to learn and display craft projects linked to library books and resources.
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Library’s Craft Festival
Sweethe Bs
Jean Dobrozsi
Phyllis Bartley
Beth Dixon
Jatana Vance
Middletown Public Library
Was It Really Mutiny Was It Really Mutiny VOYAGE TO THE FIRST OF DECEMBER
Henry Carlisle’s novel questions if the 1842 USS brig mutiny tale is true. It follows midshipman Philip Spencer’s hanging after a naval court of inquiry clears Mackenzie. Narrated by surgeon Robert Leacock aboard the brig, the book blends trial drama with youth rebellion themes.
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Carlisle
U.S. Navy
Africa
Mackenzie
Philip Spencer
President Tyler
Spencer
Navy
Naval Court of
Robert Leacock
Winds of War Tops Hardcover Best Sellers in Weekly List
Publishers' Weekly lists The Winds of War by Herman Wouk at No 1, followed by Hailey Wheels at No 2 and Forsyth The Day of the Jackal at No 3. Exorcist Blatty, Rabbit Redux Updyke, Eleanor and Frank Lash, Tracy and Hepburn Kanin, Honor Thy Father Talese, Jennie Vol. 3 Martin, and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Brown round out the top ten.
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Wouk
Wheels
Hailey
Jackal
Forsyth
Blatty
Rabbit Redux
Updyke
Eleanor
Franklin
Lash
Tracy
Hepburn
Kanin
Honor Thy Father
Talese
Jennie
Martin
Wounded Knee
Brown
Publishers’ Weekly
Ancient Rome Ruined By The Tax Collectors
Chester G. Starr presents a brief informative study linking Rome’s rise and fall to governance and taxation. The author, a University of Michigan historian, offers concise event summaries, illustrations, and ancient text translations to illuminate Rome’s dictatorship, Caesar, Augustus, and the late empire.
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Rome
Chester G. Starr
Oxford University Press
University of Michigan
Starr
Julius Caesar
Caesar
Augustus
St. Augustine
Last Respects by Jerome Weidman a Lower East Side tale
Weidman returns to Manhattan's Lower East Side in Last Respects a companion to Fourth Street East. The novel follows Benny Kramer now middle aged as he recalls his teen years amid poverty and cramped tenements during the Roaring Twenties. His mother a part time bootlegger dies and Benny and family navigate memory and truth with tight prose and humorous misadventures like delivering bootleg liquor to a wedding.
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Fourth St. East
Weidman
Manhattan
Lower East Side
Benny Kramer
New York
Benny
Peretz Memorial
Borough of
Queens
Movieland Nostalgia and a Mansion Scheme in 1933
A fiction set in Labor Day weekend 1933 inside Movieland. A wealthy executive Harrison Stembridge using a staged hospitality to entice guests, hoping to buy out rival studios and newspaper interests while a guest uncovers the plan. The plot centers on a palace estate and looming combine.
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Bob Thomas
Doubleday
Prey Ceslossal
Harrison
Clay Stembridge
Stembridge
Refuge Adds 2798 Acres to Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge
The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission has expanded the Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge on the Texas Gulf Coast by 2798 acres. The area lies about 50 miles south of Houston.
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Brazoria, Tex
Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
Texas Gulf Coast
Houston
Best selling paperbacks list for 1972 highlights
A rounded catalog of popular paperbacks and notable titles from 1972, listing authors such as Uris, MacLean, Vonnegut, Toffler, Reich, Mailer, Raucher and others. Includes works across fiction, history, science, and social critique, reflecting broad reader interests of the era.
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Maclean
Baez and
Harris
Bach and
Deutsch
Hansen and
Jensen
Toland
Khruschev
Khrushchev
Janeway
Barnard
Pauling
Heyer
Slaughter House Five
Vonnegut
Mailer
Third Reich
Speer
Lombardi
Kramer
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