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COOPER'S CREEK, by Alan Moorehead. The author again strikes out on unfamiliar terrain, this time telling the grim story of Burke and Wills, two 19th century Australian explorers, who first crossed their continent from south to north looking for rich prairies and finding an unsalvageable desert. They died on the way back.
HITLER: A STUDY IN TYRANNY, by Alan Bullock. Historian Bullock has revised ,his ten-year-old biography, which is still the definitive study of Hitler.
THE GOLDEN FRUITS, by Nathalie Sarraute. In this novel about the publication of a novel, Author Sarraute wittily dissects cultural toadies and intellectual conformity.
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