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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park whom she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle. Evie, grateful for their charismatic leader's attention, the sense of family the group offers, and the assurance of the girls, is swept into their chaotic cult existence. As things turn darker, her choices become riskier. A wonderfully written debut novel about...
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Language
English
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The New York Times–bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor. Lost at Sea reveals how deep our collective craziness lies, even in the most mundane circumstances.
Ronson investigates the strange things we’re willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with our loved ones’ personalities to indigo children to hypersuccessful...
Ronson investigates the strange things we’re willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with our loved ones’ personalities to indigo children to hypersuccessful...
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Publisher
Icon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Literary and cultural historian James Riley descends into this underworld and traces the historical and conspiratorial threads connecting art, film, poetry, politics, murder and revolt. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the Manson Family and Roman Polanski, ley-line hunters and Illuminati believers, Aldous Huxley, Joan Didion and the Beat poets, radical protest movements and occult groups all come together in Riley s gripping narrative. Steeped...
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Language
English
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"A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of Radio Free Vermont--"underground, underpowered, and underfoot"--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson,...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In his second novel, the acclaimed author of The Sabotage Café leads us on a long, strange trip through the heart of the sixties and beyond, as seen through the eyes of the revolution's poster child. Fred is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder, the famous (or notorious) pied piper of the counterculture, and in middle age he hates being reminded of it. But neither can he ignore any longer his psychedelically bizarre childhood. From infancy, for instance,...
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Language
English
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In her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the Swinging '60s. From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and already a famous model and actress, she moved from London to a palace in Marrakesh, with her husband Paul Getty, the famous oil heir. There she presided over a swirling ex-pat scene filled with music, art, free...
8) La bahía
Author
Series
Principal noir volume 26
Publisher
Principal de los Libros
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Hay una oscuridad dentro de todos nosotros y The Bay tiene una forma de sacarla. Todos aquí tienen sus secretos, pero no vamos a buscarlos. Porque a veces es mejor no saber. Kenna llega a Sydney para sorprender a su mejor amiga. Pero Mikki y su prometido Jack están a punto de irse de viaje, por lo que Kenna se encuentra acompañándolos en el viaje. Sorrow Bay es hermosa, salvaje y peligrosa. Un lugar remoto para surfear con olas para morirse, aislado...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of late '80s counter culture, the series follows a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied academy for assassins. Maintaining his moral code while navigating a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques, and his own adolescent uncertainties may prove fatal.
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Camille, Edel, and Remy, aided by The Iron Ladies and backed by alternative newspaper The Spider's Web, race to outwit Sophia, find Princess Charlotte, and return her to Orléans.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling novel of one of America's most celebrated photographers--exploring Dorothea Lange's wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion, and daring. In 1918 Dorothea leaves the East Coast for California, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking woman with a complicated past, gives her entrée into Monkey Block, an artists' colony and the bohemian...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Berlin is as challenging a city as it is vital, and always has been since its medieval foundation as twin fishing villages. In exploring the fascinating history of this city, discover how a people as civilized and religious as the Germans could have supported the Kaiser and the Nazis as they inflicted the misery upon the entire world.
13) Chimpanzee
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Publisher
Underland Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A man is in danger of losing his education through "repossession therapy," because he can't pay back his college loans.
14) Little brother
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Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
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Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The first collection of Timothy Leary's (1920-1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out," Leary cultivated interests that ranged across experimentation with hallucinogens, social change and legal reform, and mysticism and spirituality, with a passion to determine...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Steampunk, the retro-futuristic cultural movement, has become a substantial genre in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. Part of its appeal is that steampunk is about doing it yourself. Desirina Boskovich and Jeff VanderMeer offer practical guidance into this realm, including sections on art, fashion, architecture, crafts, music, performance, and storytelling.
18) Homeland
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Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.
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Publisher
Reel Art Press, an imprint of Rare Art Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This is the official 50th-anniversary celebration of Woodstock, by the festival's creator and founder, Michael Lang. A large illustrated edition, it includes hundreds of photographs and documents accompanied by Lang's fascinating memories and insights into the most famous and influential festival of all time, with images of Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Crosby, Stills Nash & Young, Richie Havens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana, Janis Joplin, Joan...
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