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Ford Farm Tractors of the 1950s

Randy Leffingwell

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Step inside the colorful history of Ford tractors. The author offers insight into the design,...

Kimmic (814 KP) rated Secret Child in Books

Sep 3, 2021

So I got this thinking that there would be a gut wrenching story about how he was hidden away and lived through hard times but it never happened... from what I could tell although he was at the lower end of the caste system of the 1950s he was actually fairly comfortable compared to most. The synopsis and the cover does enough to make you think that you are getting one thing, when you are actually getting a pretty normal and boring tale of a single mother in the 50s.

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What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia

Michele Hanson

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Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s...

Locomotives of the Western United States

Jonathan Lewis

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The first transcontinental railroad in the USA was completed in 1869. In the following years, until...

The Curse of Frankenstein

Marcus K. Harmes

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Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office...

Formula One: The Pursuit of Speed: A Photographic Celebration of F1's Greatest Moments

Maurice Hamilton, Paul-Henri Cahier, Bernard Cahier and Jackie Stewart

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The adrenaline-fueled, high-octane world of Formula One has created some of the greatest moments in...

Escape Velocity: American Science Fiction Film, 1950-1982

Bradley Schauer

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Today, movie theaters are packed with audiences of all ages marveling to exciting science fiction...

Deborah (162 KP) rated Resort to Murder in Books

Dec 19, 2018

Resort to Murder

T.P. Fielden | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

6.0

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Second of a series set (so far) in the late 1950s in coastal Devon. Main protagonist is a female reporter for a local newspaper but has a past life in wartime naval intelligence.

I read the first book in the series a couple of weeks back and this one I received via Goodreads.

I enjoyed both stories, but I didn't think they were really great either in the way they were written or in the construction of the mystery plot. They were enjoyable enough books, but not quite so good that I want to hang on to them to read again.