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Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle, only to find herself drawn into a cult and seduced by its charismatic leader.
3) Hippie
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
384 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated celebration of the 1960s counterculture captures the political fervor, historical events, slogans, sayings, fashions, styles, music, artwork, and other characteristics and personalities that defined the era from 1965 to 1971. .
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008, c1968
Physical Desc
xiv, 238 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this collection of essays, Didion explores subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, along with the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
602 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of a cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Exploring his spiritual rebirth and connection with his Jewish roots, the author recollects his unconventional childhood during which he was abused and bullied until he summoned the courage to fight back.