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Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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"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 summershe 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 the...
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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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.
6) Homeland
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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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
It Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
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Based on interviews and years of research, a journalist explores the cultural dominance of the Twee movement, an old-fashioned, yet highly modern aesthetic that is embraced internationally in music, art, film, fashion, food, and politics.
8) Woodstock
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
227 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Woodstock: historical background on Woodstock; Controversies surrounding Woodstock; Personal narratives"--
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The Peterson family farm is located in Caledonia, 75 miles outside Chicago. Like many farms, it thrived for decades and expanded in the 1960s to survive. As John Peterson approached his college years, his father unexpectedly died, leaving him in charge. Thus, John became a farmer, albeit a strange farmer, with one foot in the counterculture and the other in rich organic soil. The film, combining his mother Anna's home movies and footage by his...
10) Beautiful losers
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Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col., with b&w introductory sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives and careers of a group of artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world.
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