1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events |

January 17: Houses destroyed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake

April 19: Overview of Oklahoma City bombing destruction

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  January 1 – Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU.


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  January 2 – Former President of Somalia, Siyad Barre died. He had been ousted in 1991.


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  January 6 to January 7 – A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines. Policemen led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators find a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, is arrested one month later


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  January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station breaking a duration record.


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  January 16 – An avalanche hits the village of Sudavik in Iceland's West Fjords, killing 14 people.


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  January 17 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake called "the Great Hanshin earthquake" occurs near Kōbe, Japan, causing great property damage and killing 6,433 people


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  January 24 – The prosecution delivers its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.


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  January 30 – John Howard becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.


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  January 31 – United States President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.


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  February 21 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, having set a record for a solo balloon flight across the Pacific Ocean.


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  March 20 – Sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas on five subway trains in Tokyo, killing 12 people and injuring 5,510.


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  March 22 – Valeri Polyakov returns to Earth after 438 days in space.


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  March 31 – Selena, an American singer, was murdered by Yolanda Saldivar.


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  April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols set off a bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah building, killing 168 people.


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  April 28 – A gas explosion on the subway construction site in Daegu, South Korea, kills 101 people, mainly teenage boys.


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  May 16 – Japanese police raid the headquarters of the Aum Shinrikyo cult near Mt. Fuji, arresting its leader, Shoko Asahara.


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  May 17 – Jacques Chirac becomes President of France.


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  May 28 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits Neftegorsk, Russia, killing at least 2000 people.


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  June 13 – Jacques Chirac announces the continuation of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.


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  June 16 – Salt Lake City is announced as the host city of the 2002 Winter Olympics.


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  June 29 – The roof collapses at the Sampoong shopping centre in Seoul, South Korea.


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  July 11 – Srebrenica massacre: Bosniak Serbs kill a large number of men and boys, in Europe's worst post-World War II massacre.


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  July 18 – The Soufriere Hills volcano begins erupting on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.


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  July 21 – The People's Liberation Army fires missiles into waters north of Taiwan.


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  August 6 – The 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing is commemorated.


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  August 24 – Microsoft releases Windows 95.


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  August 29 – President of the Republic of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze survives an assassination attempt.


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  September 4 – eBay is founded.


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  September 27 – Bob Denard's mercenaries capture President Said Mohammad Djohor of the Comoros.


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  October – The stoner rock icon Kyuss announces they would take an indefinite hiatus. The group did not completely disband until 2 years later.


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  October 1 – Ten people are convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.


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  October 3 – The britpop band Oasis released their breakthrough album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.


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  October 3 – O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.


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  October 17 – At the age of 120 years, 238 days, Jeanne Calment is confirmed as the oldest human on record.


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  October 26 – An avalanche hits the village of Flateyri in Iceland's West Fjords.


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  October 28 – The Baku metro fire kills 289 people.


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  October 30 – Voters in Quebec narrowly reject independence from Canada in a referendum.


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  November 4 – Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin is shot dead by Yigal Amir at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.


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  November 10 – Nigerian human rights activists, including the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa are executed.


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  November 21 – Dayton Peace Agreement, the end of the war in Bosnia and Croatia.


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  November 30 – Javier Solana becomes NATO Secretary-General.


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  December 20 – American Airlines Flight 965 crashes in Colombia, killing 159 people.


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  December 30 – The UK's coldest temperature is recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands of Scotland at -27.2 degrees Celsius.


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  December 31 – After 10 years, Bill Watterson, puts an end to his legendary Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.


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  Puzzle Bobble is created, a video game popular worldwide.

Births |

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  July 9 – Georgie Henley, English actress


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  November 16 – Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor and pianist

Deaths |

January - March |

Fred Perry 1909-1995

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  January 1 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist (born 1902)


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  January 1 – Fred West, British serial killer (born 1941)


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  January 2 – Siad Barre, President of Somalia (born 1919)


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  January 9 – Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Laotian politician (born 1909)


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  January 18 – Adolf Butenandt, German physicist (born 1903)


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  January 22 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of John F. Kennedy (born 1890)


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  January 30 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (born 1925)


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  January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director and producer (born 1887)


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  February 2 – Fred Perry, British tennis player (born 1909)


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  February 2 – Donald Pleasence, British actor (born 1919)


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  February 14 – U Nu, Burmese politician (born 1907)


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  February 22 – Ed Flanders, American actor (born 1934)


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  March 1 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (born 1956)


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  March 3 – Howard Hunter, American Mormon leader (born 1907)


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  March 5 – Vivian Stanshall, British writer, artist and broadcaster (born 1943)


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  March 14 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist (born 1911)


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  March 17 – Ronald Kray, British gangster (born 1933)


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  March 26 – Eazy-E, American rapper and record producer, N.W.A. (born 1963)


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  March 31 – Selena, Mexican-American singer-songwriter (born 1971)

April - June |

Lana Turner 1921-1995

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  April 4 – Kenny Everett, British comedian (born 1944)


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  April 10 – Morarji Desai, former Prime Minister of India (born 1896)


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  April 18 – Arturo Frondizi, former President of Argentina (born 1908)


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  April 25 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and singer (born 1911)


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  April 25 – Andrea Fortunato, Italian footballer (born 1971)


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  May 5 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (born 1911)


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  May 14 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (born 1916)


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  May 18 – Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (born 1949)


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  May 24 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1916)


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  June 23 – Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (born 1914)


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  June 25 – Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (born 1907)


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  June 29 – Lana Turner, American actress (born 1921)


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  June 30 – Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (born 1921)

July - September |

Gunnar Nordahl 1921-1995

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  July 4 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (born 1919)


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  July 5 – Takeo Fukuda, Japanese politician (born 1905)


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  July 17 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine racing driver (born 1911)


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  July 25 – Charlie Rich, American singer (born 1932)


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  July 27 – Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian composer (born 1907)


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  August 3 – Ida Lupino, British actress (born 1914)


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  August 9 – Jerry Garcia, American musician, The Grateful Dead (born 1942)


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  August 21 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian astrophysicist (born 1910)


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  August 24 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer (born 1898)


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  August 28 – Michael Ende, German writer (born 1929)


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  September 15 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (born 1921)


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  September 25 – Annie Elizabeth Delany, American physician and writer (born 1891)

October - December |

Alec Douglas-Home 1903-1995

Yitzhak Rabin 1922-1995

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  October 9 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1903)


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  October 22 – Kingsley Amis, British writer (born 1922)


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  October 25 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (born 1920)


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  October 26 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (born 1913)


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  October 29 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (born 1924)


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  November 4 – Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel (born 1922)


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  November 4 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (born 1925)


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  November 7 – Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama (born 1942)


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  November 10 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (born 1941)


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  November 20 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian ice skater (born 1967)


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  December 18 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer (born 1910)


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  December 22 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (born 1911)


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  December 22 – James Meade, British economist (born 1907)


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  December 25 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (born 1917)


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  December 30 – Heiner Mueller, German poet and playwright (born 1929)

Nobel Prizes |

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  Physics: Martin L. Prel, Frederick Reines
  


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  Chemistry: Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
  


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  Medicine: Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus
  


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  Literature: Seamus Heaney
  


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  Economics: Robert Lucas, Jr.
  


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  Nobel Peace Prize: Joseph Rotblat
  

Movies released |

• Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls


• Assassins


• Apollo 13


• Bad Boys


• Babe


• Batman Forever


• Casino


• Casper


• Crimson Tide


• Congo


• Desperado


• Die Hard With a Vengeance


• GoldenEye


• Gumby: The Movie


• Judge Dredd


• Jumanji


• Major Payne


• Mallrats


• Pocahontas


• Se7en


• Toy Story

Video Games |

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  Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (August 15) (first copy 1989)

Hit songs |

• "Alright" – Supergrass
  


• "California Love" – Dr. Dre
  


• "Fantasy" – Mariah Carey
  


• "Hey Man, Nice Shot" Filter
  


• "I'll Be There For You" – Rembrandts
  


• "Waterfalls" – TLC
  


• "Wonderwall" – Oasis
  


• "You Oughta Know" – Alanis Morissette
  


• "All Over You" – Live
  


• "As I Lay Me Down" – Sophie B. Hawkins
  


• "Baby" – Brandy
  


• "Beautiful Life" – Ace of Base
  


• "Besame Mucho" – Dalida (remix)


• "Breakfast At Tiffany's" – Deep Blue Something
  


• "Buddy Holly" – Weezer
  


• "Carnival" – Natalie Merchant
  


• "Connection" – Elastica
  


• "Don't Take It Personal" – Monica
  


• "Good" – Better Than Ezra
  


• "Hand In My Pocket" – Alanis Morissette
  


• "Hook" – Blues Traveler
  


• "It's Midnight Cinderella" – Garth Brooks
  


• "J.A.R." – Green Day
  


• "Jusqu'au boût du rêve" – Dalida (remix)


• "Laissez-moi danser" – Dalida (remix)ch


• "Life's a Bitch" – Nas
  


• "Misery" – Soul Asylum
  


• "Missing" – Everything But The Girl
  


• "One Of Us" – Joan Osborne
  


• "Only Wanna Be With You" – Hootie & the Blowfish
  


• "Rock And Roll Is Dead" – Lenny Kravitz
  


• "Roll To Me" – Del Amitri
  


• "Run-Around" – Blues Traveler
  


• "She's Every Woman" – Garth Brooks
  


• "Stutter" – Elastica
  


• "Take A Bow" – Madonna
  


• "Today" – The Smashing Pumpkins
  


• "Tomorrow" – Silverchair
  


• "When I Come Around" – Green Day
  


• "You Are Not Alone" – Michael Jackson
  


• "You Gotta Be" – Des'ree
  


• "You'll See" – Madonna
  

New books |

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  The Apocalypse Watch – Robert Ludlum
  


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  Blood Sport – James B. Stewart
  


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  The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer – Neal Stephenson
  


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  The First Man (Le premier homme) – Albert Camus
  


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  Five Days In Paris – Danielle Steel
  


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  GoldenEye – John Gardner
  


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  The Horse Whisperer – Nicholas Evans
  


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  Independence Day – Richard Ford
  


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  The Information – Martin Amis
  


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  The Island of the Day Before – Umberto Eco
  


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  Landscape and Memory – Simon Schama
  


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  The Lost World – Michael Crichton
  


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  Man Ray, 1890-1976 – Man Ray, Andre Breton
  


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  Maskerade – Terry Pratchett
  


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  Microserfs – Douglas Coupland
  


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  Miracle in Seville – James A. Michener
  


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  Morning, Noon, & Night – Sidney Sheldon
  


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  Northern Lights (published in the US as The Golden Compass) – Philip Pullman
  


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  Our Game – John le Carré
  


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  Puerto Vallarta Squeeze – Robert James Waller
  


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  The Rainmaker – John Grisham
  


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  Rose Madder – Stephen King
  


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  Silent Night – Mary Higgins Clark
  


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  The Tortilla Curtain – T.C. Boyle
  

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