James A Michener
22) The novel
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Lukas Yoder, a novelist who has had a long and successful literary career, has written what he believes is his final book. When a mysterious, violent tragedy strikes his community, Yoder receives help from a devoted reader to solve the problem.
23) Caribbean
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A fictional account of the history of the Caribbean area includes the racial, political, and economic struggles from the arrival of Columbus and Spanish control to present day problems.
24) The drifters
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This epic novel follows six young people on their travels through Europe, serving as a guidebook, "loosely dressed up as fiction, " to quaint and colorful places and to the life-style of the rebellious young of the 1960's.
29) Dynasty
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James A. Michener's saga of the Blackwoods, an Ohio pioneer family of the 1820's.
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In Spain, a rancher prays to the Virgin Mary to have his bull cover him in glory. Meanwhile, the sister of the matador who will fight the bull prays to the devil to turn the bull into a weakling. A tale of bulls and miracles, narrated by an non-believing American journalist who in the process discovers faith in God.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tales of the South Pacific returns to the scenes of those tales, which won him world recognition. Once again he evokes the magic of the blessed isles in the Pacific with stories and accounts glowing with color and alive with adventure. This is a book that should be read by everyone...and all who have seen the South Pacific will find on every page the odors of frangipani, copra, blood, and beer--Cover p. [4].
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