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21) Any day now
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the emerging radicalized culture of the 1960s throughout the eastern United States serves as a commentary on the nation as experienced by members of an isolated hippie commune.
22) Anthem
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The remarkable story of two cousins who must take a road trip across American in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in Vietnam. Full of photos, music, and figures of the time, this is the masterful story of what it's like to be young and American in troubled times.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this gender-flipping reimagining of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" set in 1964 Houston, Evie must redefine what it means to be a bad girl and rethink everything she knows about loyalty after she is saved from the unimaginable by a good girl from the "right" side of the tracks.
Author
Series
Hearts of the children volume 2
Language
English
Description
Jess Hamilton believes he could never fill the shoes of his late father. Now responsible for a century-old family business and a boys home, Jess knows he is expected to uphold a great patriarchal legacy. As Jess struggles to find a footing in a world full of new obligations, he finds himself drawn into an ugly court battle where a child s future or perhaps even his life is at stake. For Jess s wife Tamra, her own inadequacies surface when her abusive...
Author
Publisher
Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Canada Books Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A humorous coming-of-age middle-grade novel set in 1960s Florida. Battling obxious siblings, sunburns, and a corporate millionaire, Norman is determined to help an old comedian save his career."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A high school history teacher looks into his own past and begins to discover secrets from his childhood in Mississippi during the 1960s, secrets that he didn't know existed and connect him to the violence of the Civil Rights movement.
28) Revolution
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner's National Book Award-winning novel, The Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a California retreat. And although their new home looks like Eden, it also has serpents: Jim Peck, a messianic exponent of drugs, yoga, and sex;...
30) Three day summer
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
During the three days of the music festival known as Woodstock, Michael Michaelson of Somerville, Massachusetts, and Cora Fletcher, a volunteer in the medical tent who lives nearby, share incredible experiences, the greatest of which is meeting each other.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Years after a 1960s religious guru's clandestine activities with his most fervent acolytes results in a grisly murder, a man struggles to make sense of what happened to his wife and friends by writing a book for which he asks former followers to relive their experiences.
33) Hammer to fall
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In divided Berlin, Joe Wilderness smuggled coffee into the East, a rather profitable racket until he had to transport something else-a spy. After an aborted mission on Berlin's famous "Bridge of Spies," Wilderness is both punished and kept out of trouble with a posting to remote northern Finland. Wilderness finds another way to make money, this time by bringing vodka across the rather porous border into the USSR. But with MI6 intelligence from London...
34) The freedom maze
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1960, thirteen-year-old Sophie slips through a maze into 19th century Louisiana and finds nothing is as she expected.
35) God's mountain
Author
Publisher
Riverhead
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
This international bestseller is a story told by an Italian boy in his 13th year, recorded in his secret diary. It is 1963, a young man's summer of discovery--a time for a boy with innocent hands and a pure heart to look beyond the ordinary in everyday things to see the far-reaching landscape, and all of its possibilities, from a rooftop terrace on God's Mountain.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Things in the sleepy fishing town of Cold Storage, Alaska, are changing. It's the summer of 1968; the men are wearing their hair long, the Vietnam War is at its height, and multiple assassinations have gripped the country. But some things remain the same. Ellie's bar is still the place to catch up on the town gossip, and there's a lot to talk about, from the boys who have returned from the war (and the ones who haven't), to the robberies that are...
Author
Publisher
World Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Erik and his friend Edmund spend their summer vacation in 1962 by a Swedish lake, daydreaming about Ewa, a young teacher who looks like actress Kim Novak. When Ewa's fiance is found dead, Erik's brother is initially the prime suspect. Twenty-five years later, when Erik happens to come across an article about unsolved crimes, he is overwhelmed by memories of that summer.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Melody Ellison is impressed by her sophisticated new friend, Leah Roth, but she wishes her cousin Val would stop being so standoffish to Leah! Melody meets Leah's grandfather, Dr. Roth, a botanist who escaped the Nazis and brought a rare and valuable Lady's Slipper orchid with him to America. When Melody's own grandfather becomes a suspect in a burglary, Melody turns to Val and Leah for help. Yet Leah seems to be hiding something, something to do...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. When the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis...
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