Counterculture
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Author:Clark, SallySummary: -
Author:Mahood, LindaSummary:As a national network of roads and hostels spread across Canada, so did the practice of hitchhiking. Thumbing a Ride examines its rise and fall in the 1970s, drawing on records from the time. Many equated adventure travel with freedom...
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Author:Hemming, DeborahSummary:In this coming-of-age story, sixteen-year-old Winnie and her three best friends-all boys-find themselves changing quickly and dramatically to impress Caleb, their strange and charismatic new companion. Under Caleb's influence,...
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Author:Davis, Steven L., Minutaglio, BillSummary:Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and new firsthand interviews, this book takes readers along for the gonzo ride of a lifetime. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy...
- Author:Cline, EmmaSummary:
An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong--this stunning first novel is perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan...
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Author:Clayton, DhonielleSummary:With a price on her head, the evil Queen Sophia out for blood, and no idea whom to trust, Camellia Beaureguard, the former favorite Belle, must race against time to find the ailing Princess Charlotte, who has disappeared without a trace...
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Author:Dubé, PeterSummary:What lurks in the shadow of the 99%? Montreal is gearing up for the World Economic Forum. On one side are those preparing to welcome the policymakers and moneylenders alike; on the other are groups ready to protest the evils of...
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Author:Pocock, JoannaSummary:An evocative blend of narrative nonfiction, personal memoir, nature writing, and reportage in the style of Barry Lopez and Annie Dillard, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the outsider eco-cultures that...
- Author:Green, JaneSummary:
Growing up in a small town, Claire yearns for adventure in the 1960s. She moves to Morocco and is swept up in a world of music, drugs, and communal living, all lead by Talitha Getty, socialite wife of an oil heir.
- Author:Christy, JimSummary:
Real Gone turns the myth of the Sixties on its head. The protagonist may be a peripatetic young man on an intense search but he knows that the gaff is in. There are sex and drugs, of course, and politics, even a little rock and roll....
- Author:Doctorow, CorySummary:
Marcus aka “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s...
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Author:Kaiser, DavidSummary:Describes how a quirky band of misfit science students at Berkeley in the 1970s altered the course of modern physics while studying quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading while lounging in hot tubs and...
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Author:Kaiser, DavidSummary:In the 1970s, a small group of physicists in Berkeley decided to explore the wilder side of science, pursuing a freewheeling, speculative approach to physics. Unlikely as it may seem, this quirky band of misfits altered the course of...
- Author:Doctorow, CorySummary:
In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful novel Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of...
- Author:Schlanger, CarolSummary:
A not-so-nice Jewish girl, expelled from Yale Drama during the Vietnam protests, abandons her acting dream to follow the man she loves to an off-the-grid commune in Oregon.
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Author:Ladouceur, LiisaSummary:Encyclopedia Gothica is a guide through that shadowiest of subcultures: modern Goths. It collects and defines more than 600 words and phrases used by these children of the night so that you too can engage in conversations about...
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Author:Coates, Colin M., University of Calgary PressSummary:Studies of the radical environmental politics of the 1960s have tended to downplay the extent to which much of that countercultural intellectual and social ferment continued into the 1970s and 1980s. Canadian Countercultures and the...
- Author:Maharidge, DaleSummary:
Will Spector, a burned-out war journalist living off-grid, teams up with Daniel Likowski, a mysterious cannabis farmer, to search for a friend missing somewhere in Northern California's rugged, mob-ruled pot belt.
