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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Using a unique blend of stories, conversations, essays, and images, storytellers extrordinaire Sara Slayton, Terry Visger and Lynn Wing share their recollectinos of growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. At time hilarious, often memorable, they take you on a trip through those extraordinary decades of immense social change. They travel through time from poodle skirts to go go boots, from girdles to going braless, from Elvis Presley to the Beatles.
Author
Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
633 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 611 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Returning for its second season, the award-winning series continues to blur the lines between truth and lies, perception and reality. Moving in a new direction, can Sterling Cooper keep up? Meanwhile, the private life of Don Draper becomes complicated in a new way. What is the cost of his secret identity?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
188 pages, 6 pages of plates ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xv, 456 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade that exploded America's postwar order. On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations, rioting, and the...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 565 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Back for season five, Doctor Blake is ready to solve a series of strange and shocking crimes. Blake once again investigates the seemingly unsolvable murders that take place in the fascinating sub-cultures of 1960s Ballarat.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ann Workman is a naive student. A misfit of sorts, she's traveled all the way from rural Kentucky to graduate school in literature in 1967. But Anne wants more than a good education-she wants a boyfriend. Ann wants the 'Real Thing', to be in love with someone who loves her. Jimmy appears as if by magic, and is everything Ann's been looking for. Although he is from a very different place, a privileged background in suburban Chicago, he is a misfit...
71) Past imperfect
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Wishing to track down a past girlfriend who claims he had fathered her child, the rich and dying Damian Baxter contacts an old friend from his days at Cambridge. The search takes the narrator back to 1960s London, where everything is changing--just not always quite as expected.
72) The sixties
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
235 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 34 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Betty Sweet is still recovering from the loss of her husband when she becomes the temporary guardian of a five-year-old nephew she never knew she had. As they struggle to move forward, they build a relationship upon the foundation of storytelling and its special kind of magic."--Provided by publisher.
74) Countdown
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear..."--Dust jacket flap.
75) The 1960s
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1960s, including the space race, civil rights, the Vietnam War, and the counterculture as reflected in music and the arts.
78) Ridley Road
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of Vivien Epstein, a young Jewish woman who after falling in love with a member of the '62 Group', rejects her comfortable middle-class life in Manchester and joins the fight against fascism in London. Inspired by true events, it follows Vivien as she goes undercover into the NSM, a neo-Nazi movement that is becoming increasingly prominent in London.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl uncovers her family's history of mental illness against the background of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War in this moving coming-of-age tale that harkens to both The Glass Castle and Forrest Gump. Tallulah James comes from a long line of intelligent college professors with strong Southern roots...and long-buried family secrets. Tallulah's childhood is a tumultuous one. Her mother is often absent as she puts her goals to save the...
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