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Israel David Goodkind is a minor bureaucrat in the Nixon White House, killing empty office time by writing the story of four generations of his large, sprawling Russian Jewish immigrant family. As he recounts his brief stint in show business, his torrid affair with a showgirl, and his encounters with a hassled and distracted President Nixon, Goodkind also witnesses historical events firsthand - the Watergate scandal, the Yom Kippur War - and eventually finds his way back to his Jewish faith.

A provocative new novel from bestselling author T.C. Boyle exploring the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-altering possibilities. In this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose effects have...

Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions.

What happened to the idealism of the 1960s? This question has haunted a generation. Outside the Gates of Eden follows two men from high school to their final destination in the 21st century. Alex is torn between his father's business empire and his own artistic yearnings. Cole finds his calling at a Bob Dylan concert in 1965. From the Summer of Love in San Francisco to Woodstock, from campus protests to the SoHo loft scene, from a commune in Virginia to the outlaw country music of Austin, the novel charts the rise and fall of the counterculture - and what came after.

Hamburg, 1942. Seventeen-year-old Anna knows she can never tell her proud parents the truth about where she is going. She must hide the fact that she is pregnant, that the father of her unborn child is dead, and that she is on her way to a special maternity home, where her baby will be given to a perfect family. She tells herself that this is the best solution. She doesn’t expect to feel the rush of love for her beautiful baby boy in the white blanket or the devastation when he is snatched from her, never to be seen again.

崇祯十五年（公元1642年），明朝风雨飘摇，大厦将倾，但东林党与阉党的斗争还在延续……崇禎十五年（公元1642年），明朝風雨飄搖，大廈將傾，但東林黨與閹黨的鬥爭還在延續……

崇祯十五年（公元1642年），明朝风雨飘摇，大厦将倾，但东林党与阉党的斗争还在延续……崇禎十五年（公元1642年），明朝風雨飄搖，大廈將傾，但東林黨與閹黨的鬥爭還在延續……

崇祯十五年（公元1642年），明朝风雨飘摇，大厦将倾，但东林党与阉党的斗争还在延续……崇禎十五年（公元1642年），明朝風雨飄搖，大廈將傾，但東林黨與閹黨的鬥爭還在延續……