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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
From their first meeting during the turbulent summer of 1968, five young California mothers--Frankie, Linda, Brett, Ali, and Kath--form a sister-like bond as they confront the ups and downs of life and pursue their mutual dreams of becoming writers.
5) Revolution
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Struggling to adapt within her newly blended family in 1964 Mississippi, young Sunny witnesses increasingly scary community agitation when activists from the North arrive in town to help register African Americans to vote.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
To escape an abusive marriage, Frankie Saunders flees across the country to Los Angeles with her reckless, profane Aunt Daisy, who will do whatever it takes to settle old scores and resolve the past--no matter what the damage, forcing Frankie to make some hard choices.
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s"--
Author
Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Saul Indian Horse, having hit rock bottom in a treatment centre for alcohol addiction, wants peace. He sees the only way to find it is to tell his life story as a Northern Ojibway with all its joys and sorrows. As he journeys back he comes to recognize the influence of everyday magic on his life.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, an ambitious young Australian journalist must carve her own path among the scandal and intrigue of the Swinging Sixties in London where she encounters the last man she ever wanted to see who brings her dark past rushing back.
12) Anthem
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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.
13) Invisible
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Auster delivers a passionate coming-of-age story of student and poet Adam Walker, who becomes involved in a perverse love triangle with a Frenchman and his girlfriend.
14) The Good Fight
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
-- The Good Fight is an inspiring, uplifting novel with resonance for our own time.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and waitress in a Chicago diner. She doesn't know Margie, sixteen and bookish, who lives a sheltered suburban life, but they soon meet when unplanned pregnancies send them to the Holy Family Home for the Wayward in rural Illinois. Assigned as roommates because their due dates line up, Margie and Doreen navigate Holy Family’s culture of secrecy and shame and become fast friends as the...
17) Miss Iceland
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyce's Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavík with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in with...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home. Eleanor Morse's Margreete's Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, and nearly burns her place down. When Margreete Bright calls her daughter Liddie to confess, Liddie realizes that...
20) Countdown
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fearful events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis are witnessed by 11-year-old Franny, who finds her life and perspectives changing throughout the course of a week that is also marked by difficult family issues.
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