Nesbø, Jo
Summary: Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom--a master of manipulation named Hecate--has connections with the highest in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NESMeans, David
Summary: "By the early 1970s, President John F. Kennedy has survived several assassination attempts and--martyred, heroic--is now in his third term. Twenty-two-year-old Eugene Allen returns home from his tour of duty in Vietnam and begins to write a war novel--a book echoing Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five--about veterans who have their battlefield experiences "enfolded," wiped from their memories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEABryan, J. G.
Summary: As seniors in high school during the late 70s in SoCal's San Fernando Valley, Douglas and his friends explore the city of Los Angeles, get stoned, tour the Manson murders locations, obsess over girls, and go to prom in powder blue tuxes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRYSummary: Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALReid, Taylor Jenkins
Summary: "Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2019
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Summary: "Danny Yzemski is a husky, pop radio-loving loner balancing a dysfunctional homelife with the sudden harsh realities of freshman year at a high school marked by racial turbulence."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Zadoorian 2018Stone, Robert
Summary: "This volume brings together three novels by one of the most spellbinding writers of his generation, suspenseful masterworks that brilliantly capture the desperate underside of American life in the 1970s and 80s." -- $c Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOLethem, Jonathan
Summary: In the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes by the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself. For these children, Black, brown, and white, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines, the histories, and laws; those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMcCann, Colum
Summary: A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCNesbo, Jo
Summary: "Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesb©ı's Macbeth centers on a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom--a master of manipulation named Hecate--has connections with the highest in power...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NESBirtcher, Baron R
Summary: Set in 1975, it is the story of a nation, a rural county, and a small town coming to terms with turbulent change. The theft of a rancher's livestock ends in an assault that escalates into arson, and the murders of nearly a dozen people. Residents of a "hippie" commune are accused of having committed the acts that have led the small county to the brink of a range war, and of feeding the tensions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRBrodie, Emma
Summary: The year is 1969, and the Bayleen Island Folk Fest is abuzz with one name: Jesse Reid. Jesse Reid's intricate guitar riffs and supple baritone are poised to tip from fame to legend with this one headlining performance. That is, until his motorcycle crashes on the way to the show. Jane Quinn is a Bayleen Island local whose music flows as naturally as her long blond hair. When she and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBuehlman, Christopher.
Summary: "The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most truly yours and I'm not sorry... New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody--he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUEGloeckner, Phoebe
Summary: The turbulent life of a teenage girl portrayed through diary entries and comic strips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLOHawkins, Rachel
Summary: As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAWImperioli, Michael
Summary: After the loss of both his father and grandfather, sixteen-year-old Matthew moves from Queens to Manhattan with his mother. There he learns to navigate a new school, a new neighborhood and a neighbor upstairs, Lou Reed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IMPLaskin, David
Summary: "A striking coming-of-age novel set in New York City at the beginning of 1970 as a young man escapes his Long Island suburb to Manhattan where he becomes swept up in the radical causes of the era. As the 1960s turn into 1970 in the Long Island suburb of Great Neck, seventeen-year old Sam Stein is falling in love for the first time. Kim is a young radical in a place where bourgeois white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASCochran, Rachel
Summary: 1970s. Parson, Texas is a small town ravaged by a devastating hurricane and the Vietnam War. Lou is diligently renovating a decaying old mansion for Miss Kate, the elderly neighbor who has always been like a mother to her. Mourning her brother's death in Vietnam, Lou dreams of enjoying a more peaceful future in Parson. When Miss Kate is murdered, no one but Lou seems to care about finding the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COCErnaux, Annie
Summary: "Set in the mid-1970s, Do What They Say or Else tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Anne, who lives with her working-class parents in a small town in Normandy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERNFranzen, Jonathan
Summary: It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAHannah, Kristin.
Summary: Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hannah 2008Hannah, Kristin.
Summary: Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEACanty, Kevin
Summary: A tale inspired by events in an isolated Idaho mining town in the 1970s traces the experiences of a handful of survivors after a disastrous fire and how they struggle to endure wrenching losses while rebuilding and pursuing dreams made harder by the tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017