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ROSEMARY'S BABY. In this chilling adaptation of Ira Levin's bestselling thriller of witchery at work in a Manhattan apartment building, Mia Farrow, as the beleaguered wife, gives a memorable portrayal of innocence and vulnerability.
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THE VIOLENT PEACE, by Carl and Shelley Mydans. Two veteran combat correspondents combine memorable war pictures and eyewitness accounts of 44 TIME-LIFE correspondents to examine the changing face of war in the nuclear age. 1897 SEARS ROEBUCK CATALOGUE, introductions by S. J. Perelman and Richard Rovere. A dazzling trove for both serious and lighthearted students of Americana, this hardcover facsimile of a popular mailorder catalogue mirrors the manners, morals and appetites of the Gay Nineties.
BRING LARKS AND HEROES, by Thomas Keneally. A mythic tale of an Irish soldier in the garrison of a penal colony vividly evokes the brutality, courage and grace of 18th century Australia.
THE SPLENDID PAUPER, by Allen Andrews. The biography of Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's froward uncle and a born loser who went from one financial debacle to another with style, imagination and diligence.
THE LESSONS OF HISTORY, by Will and Ariel Durant. At a time when nostalgia and/or despair is intellectually fashionable, the Durants argue that the best is probably yet to come, in a witty and perceptive program note to their monumental ten-volume Story of Civilization.
HAROLD NICOLSON: THE LATER YEARS, 1945-1962, VOL. Ill OF DIARIES AND LETTERS, edited by Nigel Nicolson. This third and final installment of Author-Politician Nicolson's sprightly and candid reminiscences clinches his position as the brightest British diarist since Pepys.
THE FRENCH, by Francois Nourissier; THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE, by J.J. Servan-Schreiber. France's cultural achievements and sophisticated tastes, say these two candid Frenchmen, mask crumbling institutions and outdated attitudes that must be changed if the country is to avert disaster.
HENRY VIII, by J. J. Scarisbrick. The cunning and flamboyant 16th century monarch is examined from some unflattering angles in this extensive biography by a British historian.
THE SECOND REBELLION, by James Mc-Cague. About 1,200 people die and many square blocks of Manhattan are leveled by fire, in this briskly detailed re-creation of the 1863 antidraft riots.
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