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• Curtain

  Poirot's Last Case

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  Reaching the #1 slot on the New York Times fiction best sellers list, this book meets Poirot's end by taking him back to the very beginning.

• Daring

  My Passages: A Memoir

  Sheehy, Gail

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  Journalist Gail Sheehy's "Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life" was #1 on the New York Times nonfiction best sellers list. She proposed that adults undergo predictable, age-related transitions—or "crises" —between ages 18 and 50, which act as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rocky

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  Earning $55.9 million at the box office, this movie also won Best Film for both the Golden Globe and the Academy Awards. It is a sports drama about a small-time Philadelphia boxer who gets a rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wings

  Wings (Musical group),

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  "Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney's Wings was #1 on Billboard's Top 100. "You'd think that people would've had enough of silly love songs. But I look around me and I see it isn't so."

• Touch Not the Cat

  Stewart, Mary, 1916-2014

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  This gothic romantic fantasy was #2 on the New York Times Best Seller's list. A young woman with an enigmatic gift of sight, returns to her family's grand estate after the death of her father, where she faces dark secrets, tragedy, danger, and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tus zonas erróneas

  guía para combatir las causas de la infelicidad

  Dyer, Wayne W.

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  This massive best seller took the #2 spot on the New York Times nonfiction list in 1976. This self-help book taught readers to overcome negative thinking and self-destructive patterns by taking control of their emotions and choices.

• A Star Is Born

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  A remake of the 1954 Judy Garland movie, A Star is Born, staring Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson earned $37.1 million at the box office in 1976 even though is was widely panned by the critics. Of course, it has now been remade again, this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Diamonds

  John, Elton

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  "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" - Billboard's #2 - Written as an homage to Motown and Marvin Gaye, the duet with Elton John and English singer Kiki Dee was only released as a single and not included on an original album but was included on the 1995…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Valley of the Dolls

  Susann, Jacqueline

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  It was actually Jacqueline Susann's "Delores" that was #3 on the New York Times Best Seller list in 1976, but this title, published a decade earlier, is what remains. "Delores" was Sussan's final novel published posthumously and was loosely based on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Final Days

  Woodward, Bob

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  After breaking open the Watergate story, Woodward and Bernstein detailed Nixon's final days in office and the people were here for it as this book reached #3 of the New York Times Best Seller list for nonfiction.

• King Kong

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  King Kong, staring Jeff Bridges as paleontologist Jack Prescott and Jessica Lange as the beauty Dwan, earned $36,900 million at the box office. This was the first remake the 1933 movie and the fifth out of thirteen in the King Kong franchise. Kanopy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• "Disco Lady" - Johnnie Taylor -Billboard's #3

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  Johnnie Taylor's single, "Disco Lady", was Billboard's #3 song for 1976 and it was Taylor's biggest hit.

• Sleeping Murder

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  Miss Marple hit the New York Times Best Seller list for 1976 in the #4 slot. In this story, Gwenda Reed comes from New Zealand to find a home and a new husband. Settling in the small South Coast town of Dilmouth, She feels like she actually…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Right and the Power by Leon Jaworski

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  Leonidas "Leon" Jaworski was appointed as the second Special Prosecutor for the Watergate trials after Archibald Cox was dismissed as part of the "Saturday Night Massacre" of October 19–20, 1973. His book, " The Right and the Power", recounts the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Silver Streak

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  "Silver Streak", starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor (the first pairing of the two), earned $30.02 million at the box office. The film is a comedy thriller about the murder of an art historian on a train from Los Angeles to Chicago.

• Billboard #1 Hits of the '70s

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  "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" - Billboard's #4 - Written by the original Four Seasons keyboardist Bob Gaudio and his future wife Judy Parker, the song's lyrics were "originally set in 1933 with the title "December 5th, 1933" celebrating the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ordinary People

  Guest, Judith

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  Judith Guest's "Ordinary People earned the #5 spot on the New York Times Best Seller list. The Jarrets are a typical suburban family in Lake Forrest, Illinois, who are facing a trauma that threatens to tear them apart. The book was later made into a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Roots

  the Saga of An American Family

  Haley, Alex

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  When Roots: The Saga of an American Family was first published in 1976 , the publisher marketed and sold it as a work of nonfiction and it holds the #5 spot on the New York Times Best Seller list for nonfiction in 1976. Alex Haley stated he spent…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the President's Men

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  All the President's Men was a movie based on the Woodward and Bernstein book of the same name detailing how the Watergate scandal was exposed. The movie, staring Robert Redford as Bob Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein grossed $30…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• "Play That Funky Music" - Wild Cherry - Billboard's #5

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  Coming in at #5 on Billboard's Top 100 for 1976, "Play That Funky Music" by the group Wild Cherry, which was originally a hard rock cover band just as disco was becoming popular. According to Wikipedia, "While playing at the 2001 Club on the north…Read moreRead more of this annotation