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Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the late 1950s--a hostile time for gay men--reporter Nick Russo forms an unlikely friendship with Andy Fleming, the son of a newspaper-tycoon father, and as they work closely together, they fall in love and must decide if, for the first time, they're willing to fight.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"1956, Malibu, California. Something is not right on Paradise Circle With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, out-of-work starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor and successful screenwriter, Elwood, but his agoraphobia only allows for short conversations through the windows. He's the closest thing she has to a friend in her exile, however, as she and her maid, Eva, an immigrant from...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine. Inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Summer, 1958. Vivienne Rhodes thinks she's finally landed her break playing Helen of Troy in Apex Pictures' big-budget epic, A Thousand Ships, an anticipated blockbuster meant to resurrect the failing studio. Naturally, she's devastated when she arrives on the remote Italian island of Tavalli and finds herself cast as the secondary character, Cassandra--while her nemesis, the fiancé-stealing Lottie Lawrence, America's supposed "sweetheart," is playing...
9) Till
Publisher
Orion Releasing LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie2s poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother2s ability to change the world.
12) West Side story
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Directed by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner, this musical tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City.
13) The 1950s
Author
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses four major events during the 1950s: the advent of rock and roll music; the integration of schools, buses, and restaurants; the debut of television; and the discovery of a polio vaccine.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 50s your parents spurred the biggest story of the 20th century, the rise of the middle class, and millions of Americans left the cities for the suburbs to own a home of their own, a building boom was on. This was the decade where people built Bomb Shelters, if you were born in the early fifties you are a baby Boomer, the most influential and powerful group of Americans ever born.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes-the glamorous precision-dancing...
17) Indignation
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a studious young man from Newark, New Jersey, escapes his butcher father's fears about the potential dangers facing his beloved son, by attending college at Ohio's pastoral, conservative Winesburg College.
18) Grease
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Go back to high school with Pink Lady Sandy, leader of the bad-boy T-Birds Danny, and a rockin' and rollin' all-star cast.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nobody knows the people of Wooster, Ohio, better than switchboard operator Vivian Dalton, and she'd be the first to tell you that. She calls it intuition. Her teenage daughter, Charlotte, calls it eavesdropping. She isn't supposed to listen in on conversations, but she does. Vivian may be mortified to hear rumors concerning her and her family, but she isn't going to take this lying down. Vivian wants the truth, no matter how painful it may be.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the body of a wealthy landowner is found floating in the Alabaster River on Memorial Day in 1958, Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero, struggles to solve this murder that has the town of Jewel, Minnesota, up in arms, while putting to rest the demons from his own past.
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