Of Man Nature And Enemy THE CAPTAIN
A sea wartime novel by Jan de rtog presents Martinds Harinxma in command of a tug serving the Iceland to Murmansk route. The crew includes a Canadian liaison and a young fighter who hates killing. The voyage begins with disaster, testing leadership and nerve under fire.
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Jan Dertog
Atheneum
Martinds Harinxma
Iceland
Murmansk
Canada
Tyler
Aster
Harinxma
Author to Discuss Nobel Prize Winner at Miami Middletown
Lae W. Schwarz, author and teacher, will speak on Shmuel Yoseph Agnon, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Johnston Hall Middletown campus. Free and open to public. Schwarz, a Judaic studies expert, has taught at Carleton College and written anthologies used in schools.
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Lae’ W. Schwarz
Johnston Hall
Middletown
Miami University
Schwarz
Shmuel Yoseph Agnon
Agron
Israel
Arthur M. Wolman
Middletown Public Library
Agnon
Buczacz
Galicia
Carleton College
Northfield
Minn
University of Iowa
University of Michigan
Harvard
Jewish Institute of Religion
Hardcover Best Sellers Fiction List Snapshot
The week's top fiction includes The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Crichton at number one, Valley of the Dolls by Gusann at two, Capable of Honor by Drury at three, Tai-Pan by Clavell at four, with Lane noted at rank three.
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Santa Vittoria
Crichton
Gusann
Drury
Clavell
Lane
Miracle at Philadelphia 1787 a pivotal constitutional dawn
Catherine Bowen portrays the 1787 Federal Convention in Philadelphia from May to September as delegates from 12 states hammered out the Constitution, debating sovereignty and representation. The book highlights secrecy, Washington and Madison, the Sherman compromise, and the personalities of the 55 men shaping a new nation.
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Mracle
Philadelphia
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Atlantic-Little, Brown
State House
Washington
Madison
Virginia
Bowen
America
A Spy Story's Buried Under The Verbal Fat
Rebecca West reviews a novel about Russian exiles in Paris who long for Mother Russia. The book centers on a double spy tale tied to tsarist and revolutionary currents, with a moving railway train scene noted as historically significant but the narrative pacing judged slow.
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Rebecca West
Viking Press
Paris
Russia
Steppes
Bat Fat
Dame Rebec
A Not-Too-Modest Dos Passos Memoir A Not-Too-Modest Dos Passos Memoir
Dos Passos presents a lively memoir tracing his life into the 1930s. He recounts early family history, World War I ambulance service, travels across the Near East and Caucasus, and social circles from Fitzgerald to Hemingway. The tone is anecdotal and self promotional.
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John Dos Passos
New American Library
Dos Passos
iThen
France
Red Cross
Italy
Near East
Persia
Turkey
Desert
Fitzgerald
Hemingway
Paris
Greenwich Village
Leningrad
Moscow
Caucasus
Key West
Pirate Station 390 Convinced for Illegal Broadcasting
In Canterbury England AP Radio Station 390, a British offshore pirate broadcaster, was convicted of operating without a license. The Kent magistrates court rejected its jurisdiction claim and found the station guilty of broadcasting from an abandoned Thames Estuary fort on British territory.
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Canterbury
England
390
Britain
Kent
Thames Estuary
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