Nineteen seventies
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Author:Stellings, CarolineSummary:Tina is short, but she packs a wallop. And she knows every move a boxer needs to get to the top. It's 1979, and the glory days of the sport are over. With the family gym about to fold, and her father unwilling to listen to a word she...
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Author:Buehlman, ChristopherSummary:New York City, 1978. Joey Peacock has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, feeding by night and sleeping by day in the macabre labyrinth beneath the city. But when they appear, whatever they are, the undead of Manhattan...
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Author:Entis, PhyllisSummary:Celine Sutherland is dead - her body half-hidden under the Atlantic City Boardwalk - and Damien Dickens, P.I. killed her. Detective Lt. James Holmes found Damien’s gun and wallet near the crime scene, and discovered Celine's cash-filled...
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Author:Zettell, SusanSummary:It's 1970, and the optimism of Trudeaumania is starting to give way to fears of wage and price controls. In Varnum, Ontario, where the smell of industry is the smell of money, a lot of that money's heading south, just like...
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Author:Kijinski, PaulSummary:Roger Jakubiak isn't where he thought he would be at age 45: single, predictable and working as an eighth-grade social studies teacher in the same Cleveland area school district from which he graduated. Now a suspected brain aneurysm...
- Author:Leung, CarrianneSummary:
Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new subdivision rise up, in new fiction from the author of the Toronto Book Award-shortlisted WONDROUS WOO. The suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth - new houses,...
- Author:Maupin, ArmisteadSummary:
- Author:Kinsella, W. P.Summary:
Russian Dolls weaves in and out of the real and imaginary worlds of Wylie, a struggling author and self-proclaimed "unreliable narrator", as he finds and then loses his muse, Christie, in their shared home - aptly named the "...
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Author:Lambeth, DougSummary:Roger Donnelly's best friend says that Jesus and the Virgin Mary have started talking to him. Jesse Montoya is Roger's all-time best pal, and he swears he's having visions, and can work miracles. Roger has stood by Jesse since the first...
- Author:King, StephenSummary:
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and...
- Author:Flanery, Sean PatrickSummary:
A coming of age debut audiobook from accomplished actor, director, and writer Sean Patrick Flanery explores that powerful first taste of love that sets the bar for something that we'll chase, usually unsuccessfully, for the rest of...
- Author:Lakin, C. S.Summary:
At the height of the Vietnam War in 1971, Jake Abrams is desperate to leave his oppressive home in Colorado and begin a new life in college in LA, but his dreams are waylaid when he meets Leah, an antiwar protester who pushes him into...
- Author:Yamashita, Karen TeiSummary:
Beginning in 1968, a motley cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs from San Francisco's Chinatown make their way through the history of the day, becoming caught in a riptide of politics and passion,...
