Word: harper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SEASON IN THE SUN by ROGER KAHN 175 pages. Harper...
AMERICAN HUNGER by RICHARD WRIGHT 146 pages. Harper...
...Churches Should Not Pay Taxes, by the Rev. Dean M. Kelley (Harper & Row; 151 pages; $6.95). Kelley, religious-liberty director of the National Council of Churches, takes up arms against a recent trend toward taxing religious institutions (hard-pressed New York City, for example, has withdrawn exemption from the property of the American Bible Society). Kelley argues that churches should be protected as the only institutions that provide meaning in people's lives on a massive scale, a function of great social value even to nonbelievers. He points out that tax-exempt church properties are not a big cause...
...COLLEEN McCULLOUGH 530 pages. Harper...
Well before its publication, this second novel by a hitherto obscure Australian had become an economic event. Harper & Row ran off 225,000 hardback copies and put up $100,000 as an initial advertising budget. The Literary Guild made the book its main selection for June, relegating Erich Segal's Oliver's Story, a dead-certain moneymaker, to second place. Avon Books shelled out $1.9 million for paperback reprint rights, topping the record $1.85 million that Bantam Books paid for E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime two years...