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LADY WU, by Lin Yutang. From the remoteness of 7th century Imperial China, Author Yutang has recalled an empress who was Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Lucrezia Borgia rolled into one fiery, demonic woman. Clawing her way from obscurity to power, she killed wantonly and hideously; finally on the throne, she became a model ruler.
IS PARIS BURNING? by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. The exciting story of the 1944 rescue of Paris from Hitler's vow to dynamite it and from a Communist plot to seize it.
EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE, by Flannery O'Connor. These last brilliant stories by the late Miss O'Connor give no quarter to pity and seldom, even, to compassion. Instead, they illustrate the author's favorite themes: the bonds between parent and child, between the tyrannical weak and the consuming strong, and between Southerners — white and Negro —leashed in hatred to each other.
ASSORTED PROSE, by John Updike. A fine collection of essays and reportage on subjects ranging from light verse to Boston's long love-hate affair with Ted Williams.
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FICTION
1. The Ambassador, West (2 last week)
2. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (1)
3. The Source, Michener (4)
4. Hotel, Hailey (3)
5. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (5)
6. Herzog, Bellow (6)
7. The Green Berets, Moore
8. The Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier (7)
9. Night of Camp David, Knebel (9)
10. A Pillar of Iron, Caldwell (10)
NONFICTION
1. Markings, Hammarskjold (2)
2. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (1)
3. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (8)
4. Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII (4)
5. The Italians, Barzini (6)
6. The Founding Father, Whalen (3)
7. Queen Victoria, Longford (5)
8. My Shadow Ran Fast, Sands (9)
9. Modern English Usage, Fowler, revised by Gowers
10. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (10)
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