Summary: Tillsammans, ('Together' in English), is a commune in the heart of Stockholm, still going strong in 1975, long after most members of youth culture have abandoned their notions of free love, harmoniously integrated extended families, and naive political idealism in favor of jobs, discos, and TV sitcoms. The commune's 'leader' is sweet, conflict-avoiding Goran. The arrival of his conventional,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Memfis Film 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOGOrmsbee, Kathryn.
Summary: Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Galliard and seventeen-year-old Stella cross paths and realize they must determine their own futures as strange events occur in Slater, Kansas, and its neighbouring commune in 1977. Slater, Kansas is a small town where not much seems to happen. Stella dreams of being a space engineer. After Stella's mom dies by suicide and her brother runs off to Red Sun,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ORMBrunskill, Amelia
Summary: A group of teenage girls living in a cult are ensnared by suspicion and paranoia when one of them goes missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Taylor Camp, 1969 to 1977, the ultimate hippie fantasy, a pot-friendly, clothing-optional treehouse village on a beach at the end of the road on Kauai's Northshore. Started by Elizabeth Taylor's brother, it ends in flames eight years later when the locals decide it's time for them to go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EDGSummary: For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR OTHCline, Emma.
Summary: Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park whom she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle. Evie, grateful for their charismatic leader's attention, the sense of family the group offers, and the assurance of the girls, is swept into their chaotic cult existence. As things turn darker, her choices...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cline 2016Brown, Carolyn
Summary: "Ever since childhood, Emma and Sophie were bound by a passion for painting. Like all young best friends, they promised to never lose touch. But the girls came from different worlds, and their paths diverged when Emma went to an elite college and Sophie worked her way through state school. After a decade they've reconnected, both in a time of need. Emma has been struggling with depression since...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Brown 2021Finneyfrock, Karen.
Summary: "Starbird has spent the first sixteen years of her life on a commune in the woods of Washington State. When she gets her Calling to become a waitress at the farm's satellite restaurant in Seattle, it means leaving behind the only place she's ever known and entering the World Outside"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FINHoagland, Edward
Summary: "Press, a stockbroker going blind, has lost his job and his wife and is holed up in his Vermont cabin surrounded by a hippy commune, drug runners, farmers-gone-bust, blood-thirsty auctioneers, and general ne'er-do-wells. Solace and purpose come from the unlikeliest sources as he learns to navigate his new landscape without sight"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOACline, Emma
Summary: Girls-- their vulnerability, strength, and passion to belong-- are at the heart of this stunning first novel for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLILepucki, Edan
Summary: "Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. But Ursa's powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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Summary: Three teen girls get caught up in a real estate battle between a commune and an exploitative megachurch in their small Montana town, and they devise a plot to exact revenge and make a profit by kidnapping the pastor's son and demanding ransom money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NOOShepard, Sara
Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard's next adult novel follows a group of mothers living in a mysterious "mommune," each of whom is running from something. When Lenna gets a call from her old friend Rhiannon, she is startled; Rhiannon disappeared years ago without a trace. But Lenna is even more startled to learn that Rhiannon has a son and that she lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEBitto, Emily
Summary: On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be part of it. As the years pass, Lily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BITJensen, Louise
Summary: ONCE YOU'RE IN, THEY'LL NEVER LET YOU LEAVE.At Oak Leaf Farm you will find a haven.Welcome to The Family.Laura is grieving after the sudden death of her husband. Struggling to cope emotionally and financially, Laura is grateful when a local community, Oak Leaf Organics, offer her and her 17-year-old daughter Tilly a home.But as Laura and Tilly settle into life with their new 'family', sinister...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQ, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JENKing, Laurie R.
Summary: "The Gardener Estate was a twentieth-century Eden. Now, restoration work digs up a grim relic of the home's past: a human skull. Inspector Raquel Laing has her work cut out for her. Fifty years ago, Rob Gardener, turned his home into a commune of peace, love and equality. But that was also a time when serial killers preyed on innocents. As Raquel dives into the Estate's archives, everything she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINKing, Laurie R.
Summary: "A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life-with potentially fatal consequences-in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series The Gardener Estate is one of the most storied and beloved places on the West Coast: a magnificent house in vast formal grounds, home to a family that shaped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINMorrison, Toni.
Summary: Ruby, Oklahoma, was settled by nine African-American clans during the 1940s, but now the four women who occupy the Convent, an abandoned mansion not far from town, are the scapegoats for the ancestral feuds and financial and political troubles of the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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Summary: From the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary Los Angeles in all its facets, from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific, from the 110 to Skid Row. During a typically crowded morning commute, a naked runner is dodging between the stalled cars. The strange sight makes the local news and captures the imaginations of a stunning cast of misfits and lost souls....
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POCReiss, Kathryn
Summary: Visiting a ranch and commune in California Gold Rush country, Julie stumbles on a mysterious message that hints at long-lost treasure and she endeavors to find it before trouble shows up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2017
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Summary: After losing his job in New York, George and his wife Linda decide to try living an alternative lifestyle at the Elysium commune where nudism and free love abound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WANBeverly-Whittemore, Miranda
Summary: ""It's time to come Home. All five of you. Or else." Saskia was a damaged, lonely teenager when she arrived at the lakeside commune called Home. She was entranced by the tang of sourdough starter; the midnight call of the loons; the triumph of foraging wild mushrooms from the forest floor. But most of all she was taken with Abraham, Home's charismatic leader, the North Star to Saskia and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEVGroff, Lauren.
Summary: The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Groff 2012Raymond, Jonathan.
Summary: The discovery of two skeletons during the filming of a movie in the Pacific Northwest intertwines the lives of two pairs of friends, separated by generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004