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New York Times Bestsellers 1970s
Richard Adams
In a constant struggle against oppression, a group of rabbits search for peaceful co-existence. Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
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Richard Bach
More concerned with the dynamics of his flight than with gathering food, Jonathan is scorned by the other seagulls.
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Michael Crichton
The time is Victorian London with all its lavish wealth and appalling poverty. In the thriving underworld of London, we meet Edward Pierce, a handsome young man of good breeding. Pierce believes he can rob a fast moving train carrying the payroll for Crimean War troops. The train safe is supposed to be uncrackable.
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Ken Follett
British Intelligence must thwart Die Nadel, the only spy Hitler trusts, from reaching Hitler to tell about the 1944 invasion of France.
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Ernest Hemingway
Published posthumously, this story follows the adventures of Thomas Hudson, who establishes himself as an artist in the tropics, until he is called to serve in World War II by destroying submarines off the coast of Cuba.
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Stephen King
After four and a half years in a coma, Johnny Smith awakens with a knowledge of the death zone and an ability to see the future, a horrible power that he does not want and cannot escape.
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Harper Lee
Scout’s father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in a small Alabama town during the 1930s.
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Robert Ludlum
Following his brother’s senseless death from an overdose of heroin, an English professor agrees to help the Justice Department destroy the organization supplying drugs to students at Carlyle University.
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Colleen McCullough
A saga of three generations of the indomitable Cleary family begins in the early 1900s when Paddy Cleary, a poor New Zealand farm laborer, moves his wife and children to the Australian sheep station owned by his rich sister.
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Chaim Potok
Meggie, daughter of a Catholic father and a Protestant mother with deep secrets, harbors a love for a Catholic priest.
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Mario Puzo
Delves into the operation of the Cosa Nostre by focusing on Mafia leader Vito Corteleone and his underworld domain.
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William Styron
As the fierce lovemaking and fights of Nathan, a paranoiac Jewish intellectual, and Sophie, a Polish-Catholic concentration-camp survivor, intensify, Stingo, a writer who lives below them in a cheap rooming house, becomes more and more involved in their lives.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
A new edition of Tolkien’s collection of tales and legends chronicling the world’s beginnings and the happenings of the First Age focuses on the theft of the Simarils—the three jewels crafted by Feanor—by Morgoth, first Dark Lord of Middle-earth.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Billy Pilgrim, a chaplain’s assistant during the Second World War, returns home only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present.
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