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|author=Judy Chicurel
|title=If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Katie and her friends in Elephant Beach, Long Island are going to make the most of summer 1972. High school is behind them, there's booze to be drunk and weed to be smoked. There's also a lot to contend with. This is a working class community, ignored and disenfranchised by those with the money and influence to help. Also the Vietnam War rages on, producing local heroes like Luke and Mitch. For some of the young people the future is a blank canvas, for others their future is foreseen or foreshortened. As for Katie's hopes and dreams, they all revolve around the hope of a date with Luke.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472221656</amazonuk>
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|title=Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952
|summary=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people to back that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>
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