"The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other-- As Baby Boomers became teenagers in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old...

1. Writing with a Funny Bone 2. Family Life 3. Books and Comedy 4. A Friend and a Mentor 5. The Students' Teacher 6. Accidents Strike 7. First Book 8. Writing Full-Time 9. A Sad Good-Bye 10. In Her Own Words - Glossary - Index - Web Sites

American novelist Joan Didion's first volume of nonfiction essays, first published in 1968, consisting of twenty works that reflect the atmosphere in America during the 1960s, especially in California.

The tale of Gorgik / Samuel Delaney--Meditations on history / Sherley Williams--Damballah / John Edgar Wideman--Louisiana:1850 / Jewelle Gomez--Remember him a outlaw / Slexis DeVeaux--Mother / Andrea Lee--Long distances / Jewell parker Rhodes -- After dreaming of President Johnson / Howard Gordon--Neighbors / Diane Oliver -- The witness / Ann Petry -- Steadygoing up / Maya Angelou--The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara--Kiswana Browne / Gloria Naylor--Sedond-hand...

The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

"In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed some hundred and fifty times with pruning shears, she was left face-down in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn't recognize fled the scene, but no evidence was uncovered. When Dickins was convicted and sentenced...

As a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, Roald Dahl recounts his adventures living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War II.