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Fathers & sons

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Description: When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith." Turgenev's masterpiece of generational conflict shocked Russian society when it was published in 1862 and continues today to seem as fresh and outspoken as it did to those who first encountered its nihilistic hero.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1941]
Call number: 486628
Creator: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Valentine, March 8, 1968.

Mexico City had long played host to a thriving sex trade, and in 1904 officials registered 10,000 prostitutes out of a total urban population of 368,000 ... Renowned social hygienist, Dr. Luis Lara y Pardo shocked many when he figured that between 15 and 30 percent of Mexico City's female population participated in the sex trade. In his 1908 book "La prostitución en México" Lara y Pardo claimed that a majority of these women represented a generation of poor, largely rural migrants who had come to the capital and crowded into a variety of working class neighborhoods."--Wood, Augustin. Lara, a cultural biography.

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The boy who was buried this morning : a Dave Brandstetter novel

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"The loss of a dear friend has retired P.I. Dave Brandstetter in a funk. The 1980s haven't been kind to Los Angeles, either, and the city Dave loves seems to be vanishing before his eyes. Dave isn't getting any younger, and his boyfriend, Cecil, is happy to see Dave's days of working dangerous jobs behind him. But Cecil also recognizes that work may be the investigator's best way out of his recent depression. When a former work colleague of Cecil's is shot by a live round at a paintball park in rural Southern California, he decides to encourage Dave to look into it. The deceased wasn't exactly someone Cecil or Dave would mourn. Vaughn Thomas was a troubled young man; a silver spoon elite who dabbled in militias and weekend warrior games while cultivating his connections with fellow white supremacists. Vaughn would have hated everything about Dave and Cecil, but it doesn't take long for the old investigator to see that the official story is anything but right. 'Emotions doesn't change facts,' Dave once told Cecil, but as Dave dips his toes deeper into the case, he quickly realizes that facts have a hard time with bigotry and bullets"--Back cover.

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Poison in jest

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When Jeff Marle returns home to Pennsylvania for the first time in years, he visits his old friends the Quayles. But the respectable family isn’t as he remembered them – he’s shocked by the tattered state of both the house and the Quayles’ nerves. Patriarch Judge Quayle is poisoned right in front of Jeff and nearly dies, and this near-tragedy is followed by another poisoning, and then a more brutal attack. Without the help of his friend Bencolin, will Jeff manage to find the killer? Or is he fated to become a serial Watson – and if so, who will play the role of detective?

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The complete mystery of Matthew Alcott : heritage of secrets

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Some of the thirty-plus polygamous marriages Joseph Smith engaged in before his death in 1844 shocked Matt's sensibilities, but nothing affected him like discovering Smith's last revelation. The church fathers told him the revelation was bogus. Matt knew different. People had a right to know. Matt learned the hard way: it was the sacred duty of the patriarchy to protect the membership from all things non-faith promoting. After a harrowing attempt on his life Matt was forced to disappear in order to write his book. When completed his publisher informed him that a Salt Lake City law firm, representing an undisclosed party, offered two million to buy his manuscript outright.

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