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Central - Adult Fiction
F REID
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F REID
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Central - Recently Returned
F REID
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F REID
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F REID
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F REID
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20 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"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 getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
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Central - Adult Fiction
F BLAU
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F BLAU
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F BLAU
1 available
F BLAU
1 available
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"In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family's subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she's glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job, Mary Jane's mother says. In a respectable house. The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it's a literal...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F BRODI
1 available
F BRODI
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F BRODI
1 available
F BRODI
1 available
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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 bandmates are asked to play in Jesse Reid's place at the festival,...
4) Hippie
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Central - Adult Fiction
F COELH
1 available
F COELH
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F COELH
1 available
F COELH
1 available
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A Brazilian man and a Dutch woman embark on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery as they travel by bus from Amsterdam to Kathmandu against a backdrop of the protests and sexual-liberation experiments of the 1960s.
Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In Hippie, he tells...
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"A woman looks back at the events that shaped her life, especially the scandals and family secrets that stand in the way of her making peace with her past"--
The daughter of a famous photographer, Bea Seger and her brothers were the subjects of an explosive series of images in the 1960s known as the Marx Nudes. The photographs left a family legacy of grief felt long past the public outcry and media attention; she has spent a lifetime running from...
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"In Girl in a Band, the famously reserved superstar speaks candidly about her past and the future. From her childhood in the sunbaked suburbs of Southern California, growing up with a mentally ill sibling who often sapped her family of emotional capital, to New York's downtown art and music scene in the eighties and nineties and the birth of a band that would pave the way for acts like Nirvana, as well as help inspire the Riot Grrl generation, here...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GREEN
3 available
F GREEN
3 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F GREEN
2 available
F GREEN
2 available
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT F GREEN
1 available
LT F GREEN
1 available
Westover - Adult Large Type
LT F GREEN
1 available
LT F GREEN
1 available
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In her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the Swinging '60s. From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and already a famous model and actress, she moved from London to a palace in Marrakesh, with her husband Paul Getty, the famous oil heir. There she presided over a swirling ex-pat scene filled with music, art, free...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F JOYCE
1 available
F JOYCE
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F JOYCE
1 available
F JOYCE
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F JOYCE
1 available
F JOYCE
1 available
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Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD F JOYCE
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CD F JOYCE
1 available
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“An unforgettable story of music, loss and hope. Fans of High Fidelity, meet your next quirky love story.”—People
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES (UK) AND THE WASHINGTON POST
It is 1988. On a dead-end street in a run-down suburb there is a music shop that stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. Like a beacon,...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES (UK) AND THE WASHINGTON POST
It is 1988. On a dead-end street in a run-down suburb there is a music shop that stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. Like a beacon,...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MCCOY
1 available
F MCCOY
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F MCCOY
1 available
F MCCOY
1 available
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"From bestselling author Sarah McCoy, a sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcee and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world's most exclusive private island, where Princess Margaret and Mick Jagger were regulars and scandals stayed hidden from the press... It's January 1972 but the sun is white hot when Willy May Michael's boat first kisses the dock of Mustique Island. Tucked into the southernmost curve of the Caribbean, Mustique is a...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MITCH
1 available
F MITCH
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MITCH
1 available
F MITCH
1 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F MITCH
1 available
F MITCH
1 available
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • “Mitchell’s rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and this time the flavor is a blend of Carnaby Street and Chateau Marmont.”—The Washington Post...
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • “Mitchell’s rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and this time the flavor is a blend of Carnaby Street and Chateau Marmont.”—The Washington Post...
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To make a name for herself in the literary world, Alley Russo takes a job as assistant to the infamous Walter Reade and must battle against his endless procrastination, vampiric schedule, addiction, and casual gun play to coax a novel out of him.
12) Groupies
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F PRISC
1 available
F PRISC
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F PRISC
1 available
F PRISC
1 available
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"It's 1977, and Faun Novak is in love with rock 'n' roll. After her mother's death, Faun, a naïve college dropout, grabs her Polaroid and hops a Greyhound to Los Angeles. In the City of Angels, she reconnects with her charismatic childhood friend Josie, now an up-and-coming model and muse. To make their reunion even sweeter, Josie is now dating Cal Holiday, the frontman of the superstar rock band Holiday Sun, and Faun is positively mesmerized. Except...
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From a National Book Award nominee ("Eat the Document") comes a startlingly original and compelling novel about an eccentric artist and his sister.
14) Summer fun
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"Gala, a young trans woman, works at a hostel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She is obsessed with the Get Happies, the quintessential 1960s Californian band, helmed by its resident genius, B----. Why did the band stop making music? Why did they never release their rumored album, Summer Fun? Gala writes letters to B---- that shed light not only on the Get Happies, but paint an extraordinary portrait of Gala. The parallel narratives of B----...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WALTO
1 available
F WALTO
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F WALTO
1 available
F WALTO
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F WALTO
1 available
F WALTO
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can't imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job--despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar's amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington...
16) Beautiful music
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"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."--