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Tropic of orange : a novel

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Description: A satire on California featuring two TV journalists, one a Chicano, the other his Japanese-American girlfriend. The novel has many characters, plots and themes. One plot deals with the smuggling of body parts, another with illegal immigration, a third with the export of poisoned oranges, a fourth with poverty.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1997]
Call number: 653391
Creator: Yamashita, Karen Tei (1951-)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 1566890640; 9781566890649
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The 9 wrong answers : a novel for the curious

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Bill Dawson is persuaded by Larry Hurst to return to England and impersonate him to claim an inheritance from Hurst’s mad old uncle Gaylord. Before he can leave, Larry is poisoned in a bar but Dawson decides to go through with the matter. When he meets the uncle, however, he is rather dumbstruck by the deal on the table – he can have the inheritance provided Gaylord hasn’t managed to murder him in the next six months.

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Midwives : a novel

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The trial of a midwife in 1980s Vermont. Sybil Danforth, with several hundred deliveries to her name, claims the mother was dead when she opened her to save the baby. The prosecution claims the mother was alive and the operation was illegal. The story is narrated by Sybil's daughter, portraying the trial as another round in the persecution of midwives by the New England medical profession.

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Scheer, Robert

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Approx. 30 items: memos, letters, clippings, tear sheets and other material related to journalist Robert Scheer. Includes: clips of articles by Scheer ; letters to Scheer from prominent persons including Richard Nixon, Edward Kennedy, Abbott Washburn (FCC Commissioner), Harold Willens (peace activist) ; KCET-tv transcript of discussion by Scheer and other observers ; tear sheet from L.A. Weekly, "The Life and L.A. Times of Robert Scheer" ; complete issue (2/24/1978) Heritage - Southwest Jewish Press ; LAT reprint - (11/11/1979) "Illegal aliens...endless cycle of..." ; article tear sheets from New West and Time with articles on Scheer ; etc.

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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Manuscripts

One item. Transcript from KTTV-tv broadcast of "The George Putnam News" (2/17/1969). Putnam's "One Reporter's Opinion" delivered a heated criticism of LAT's Page One, Column One article of the previous Sunday. "Marxist-Communist-Atheist Dorothy Healey" is condemned by Putnam, along with The Times.

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California Chicano News Media Association Address

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Two notes relating to a speech given by Otis Chandler to the California Chicano News Media Association on November 15, 1979. One note is typed and the other is hand written.

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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

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Approx. 25 items. Reports from various broadcast media outlets (KNXT-tv, KNBC-tv, KHJ-tv, KNX-radio) on topics including: the LAT Charity Game; 4-part interview of Otis Chandler (2 sets) by Joseph Benti (10/13-10/17); Benti interview with Robert Gottlieb, author of Thinking Big, a book critical of LAT; Michael Jackson radio interview of Art Seidenbaum (spelled Sidenbaum in transcript); Councilman Joel Wachs guests on "The Tommy Hawkins Show" (KHJ-tv).

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