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1) Skim
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
""Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself possibly because he's (maybe) gay the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's what happens to Skim when she starts meeting secretly with her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. Archer. But then...
2) Hippie
Author
Language
English
Description
The worldwide bestseller by the author of The Alchemist takes us on a journey back in time, from South America to Holland to Nepal, drawing on the rich experiences of his own life to relive the dreams of a generation that longs for peace. • "A novelist who writes in a universal language." —Los Angeles Times
In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee...
In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee...
3) Hair
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park Lake and finally, in the army. But Berger's final effort...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jacob, a middle-aged architect living in Copenhagen, is in the alcohol-soaked throes of a bitter divorce when he receives an unexpected call from his great-uncle Anton, who is in his nineties and still lives with his brother Anders on their rural Jutland farm--a place Jacob hasn't visited since the summer of 1978. Anton asks Jacob to answer the question that has haunted them both for decades: What happened to Ellen? To find out, Jacob must revisit...
5) Wanderlust
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After George loses his high-stress Manhattan job, he and his wife Linda hit the road and wind up crashing at Elysium, a free-spirited community of hippies, tree-huggers, and the occasional nudist.
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Una tarde de otoño en la Ciudad de México, Luisa, de diecisiete años, no regresa a casa. En su lugar, aborda un camión a la costa del Pacífico con Tomás, un muchacho al que apenas conoce. Él parece representar todo lo que le falta a su vida: temeridad, impulso e independencia. Y Tomás también puede ayudarla a satisfacer una extraña obsesión: encontrar a la compañía de enanos ucranianos. Según los reportes del periódico, los enanos...
7) Easy rider
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the "real" America. And find it.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When the fun-loving and spontaneous artist Willow West meets buttoned-up, retired English teacher George Emerson, it's not exactly love at first sight. Though she does find the obsessive-compulsive man intriguing. Making it her mission to get him to loosen up and embrace life, she embarks on what seems like a lost cause--and finds herself falling for him in the process. A confirmed bachelor, George vacillates between irritation and attraction whenever...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The story of one young hippie's quest in the 1970s for belonging and liberation that leads not only to peace, love, and rock and roll but that sets into motion a new counterculture crusade a Jesus Movement changing the course of history. Inspired by a true movement, it tells the story of a young Greg Laurie being raised by his struggling mother, Charlene in the 1970s. Laurie and a sea of young people descend on sunny Southern California to redefine...
10) Luna #2
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
After a night with the Family of the Sun, Teresa begins to discover the shocking truth behind the seemingly normal hippie cult and their leader Lux. The dark secrets of Teresa's visions collide with divine revelations - and send her on a path she never expected. For Mature Readers.
Publisher
TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Can any man be as evil as the media portrays him to be? A vagrant and frustrated musician who referred to himself as Jesus Christ, he masqueraded behind the image of a peace-loving hippie to disguise his insatiable thirst for power and an intense obsession with violent death. Beyond explores the story behind convicted murderer Charles Manson.
Series
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The teacher, Mr. Slink, assigns an environmental project, and Halo Nightly pairs up with Flora, the school's resident treehugger. Their team has the assignment in the bag (reusable, of course). But when the evil Doozie Hiss ruins their chances for a good grade, Flora changes from happy hippie to eco-terror. With her superpowered candies, Halo faces off against the Green Queen of Mean!
13) Rat Queens Vol 1
Series
Rat Queens volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Collects RAT QUEENS #1-5 Who are the Rat Queens? A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, and theyre in the business of killing all gods creatures for profit. Its also a darkly comedic sass-and-sorcery series starring Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric and Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief. This modern spin on an old school genre is a violent monster-killing epic that...
14) Luna #1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
For fans of Faithless and Die comes a new dark thriller from acclaimed writer & artist Maria Llovet about a young woman named Teresa, who's plagued by prophetic dreams that connect her to something powerful, something...divine. When Teresa fatefully crosses paths with the Family of the Sun, she believes them to be exactly what anyone else in the late '60s would expect - a hippie cult whose leader claims to have met the divine. But secret blood rituals,...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When Sylvia Brownrigg received a package addressed to her father that had been lost for over fifty years, she wanted to deliver it to him before it was too late. She did not expect that her father, Nick, would choose not to open it, so she and her brother finally did. Nick, an absent father, was a hippie and would-be Beat writer who lived off the grid in Northern California. Nick's own father, Gawen -- also absent -- had been a well-born Englishman...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"El true crime del momento. El libro que rechaza la version oficial para contar la verdadera historia de Charles Manson y de los asesinatos perpetrados por su familia. Este libro sigue los veinte anos de investigacion de Tom O'Neill para refutar la historia "oficial" detras de Manson. ¿Quienes eran sus verdaderos amigos en Hollywood y hasta donde llegarian para ocultar las relaciones entre ellos? ¿Por que la policia no actuo en muchas de las ocasiones...
Publisher
Pantelion
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
After grumpy 85-year-old Don Servando is kicked out of his retirement home, his estranged son Francisco has no choice but to invite his dad to live with him. Confronted with his son's hippie lifestyle and eccentric housemates, Don Servando goes off the rails, igniting a series of comic conflicts that put the house in jeopardy, and leaves everyone in stitches.
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
40-year-old Flora has just gone through a bitter divorce after 20 years of marriage. Thankfully, she can count on the support of her friends: Roxane, the cool hippie who loves to garden, Lea, the tireless career woman, and her old neighbor, Venerable. Like her friends, Flora would love to find her soul mate, but its just not that simple. She has several promising dates, but once the first flush of passion is over, her lovers seem to disappear into...
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Is there a unicorn wandering around Woodstock? Or is it just a figment of some hippie's imagination? Marcus, Jorge, and Elena will have to find out as To sends them back to the Summer of Love. They will explore the world's happiest--and muddiest--rock festival along the way, learning about both the groovy and the controversial aspects of 1960s culture and history. Readers will get acquainted not only with the 1960s, but also with the beautiful, mysterious...
20) About Schmidt
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Warren Schmidt is about the taste the not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans - but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman. From meeting the groom's hippie parents to sponsoring a Tanzanian foster child, Schmidt embarks on a search for answers, only to discover that life is full of trick questions.
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