Chronological Period/1960's
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Darker than Dark
$22.99 Add to cartThis is a story of the Vietnam War and four young Marines. It’s about fighting and killing. Compassion and love, however, are defining parts of the story. The story personalizes what war does to those… [more below]
- Author: Admire, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: April 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1942451040
- Language: English
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The Story of Beautiful Girl
$21.99 Add to cartIt is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and … [more below]
- Author: Simon, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0446574457
- Language: English
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Clock Without Hands
$22.95 Add to cartSet in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers’s most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls hims
- Author: McCullers, Carson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0395929733
- Language: English
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Night of Many Dreams
$22.00 Add to cartNight of Many Dreams is the bestselling novel from Gail Tsukiyama that tells the tale of two sisters separated by ambition, bound by tradition
As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong K- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0312199406
- Language: English
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The Millstone
$15.99 Add to cartMargaret Drabble’s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman’s decision to become a mother.
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Drabble, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0156006197
- Language: English
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Moving on
$18.95 Add to cartLarry McMurtry’s Moving On, his epic first novel in the acclaimed Houston series, has long been considered a defining tale of “monumental honesty” worthy of great attention (New York Times). Preceding… [more below]
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1631493493
- Language: English
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Fatherland
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling classic of alternate history, a murder mystery set in a world where the Nazis won World War II–for fans of The Plot Against America and The Man in the High Castle
Berl- Series: Mortalis
- Author: Harris, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 812977211
- Language: English
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Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine
$21.99 Add to cart“Hood is clearly a force to be reckoned with in the world of contemporary fiction.”– “Daily News,” Los Angeles.
1969: As Peter, Paul and Mary croon on the radio and poster paint splashes the latest an
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393332357
- Language: English
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Old School
$17.00 Add to cartThe protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly–and at times devastatingly–observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner o… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Wolff, Tobias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0375701494
- Language: English
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The Help
$15.99 Read moreThree ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, an
- Author: Stockett, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 719
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1594133883
- Language: English
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Virgin Soul
$14.95 Add to cartWritten in first-person point of view, Virgin Soul is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young woman’s struggle for identity and purpose during one of the most politically and racially charged eras o
- Author: Juanita, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: July 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0971635242
- Language: English
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The Pump House Gang
$18.00 Add to cartA sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelist
When Tom Wolfe smashed his way onto the literary scene in 1965 with The Kand- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1250891337
- Language: English
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The Traveling Vampire Show
$14.95 Add to cartWhen the one-night-only Traveling Vampire Show arrives in town, promising the only living vampire in captivity, beautiful Valeria, three local teenagers venture where they do not belong, and discover
- Author: Laymon, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: March 31 2014
- ISBN10: 1477837124
- Language: English
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Think of England
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the author of In the Gloaming and Fellowship Point, Alice Elliott Dark’s powerful and emotional debut novel traces one young woman’s reckoning with a childhood tragedy set during mid-1960s Americ… [more below]
- Author: Dark, Alice Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0743234979
- Language: English
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Bad Boy Brawly Brown: An Easy Rawlins Novel
$21.99 Add to cartYoung Brawly Brown has traded in his family for The Clan of the First Men, a group rejecting white leadership and laws. Brown’s mom asks Easy to make sure her baby’s okay, and Easy promises to find hi… [more below]
- Series: Easy Rawlins #7
- Author: Mosley, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0446198226
- Language: English
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The Sunlight Dialogues
$24.95 Add to cartIn The Sunlight Dialogues, John Gardner’s vision of America in the turbulent 1960s embraces an unconventional cast of conventional citizens in the small rural town of Batavia, New York. Sheriff Fred C
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Gardner, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0811216705
- Language: English
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The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing
$17.99 Add to cartOn the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a
- Author: Brautigan, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0395974690
- Language: English
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Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (Loa #183): Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman
$40.00 Add to cartJonathan Lethem, editor
“The most outr? science fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon,” exclaimed Wired Magazine upon The Library of America’s May 2007 publication of Phili- Series: Library of America #2
- Author: Lethem, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1000
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1598530259
- Language: English
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
$20.00 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History
Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction.
The first battle book from Mark Bowden since
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0802127908
- Language: English
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The Fairy Tale Girl
$28.95 Add to cartBased on the diaries Susan Branch has kept since she was in her twenties, The Fairy Tale Girl is an illustrated memoir, designed in Susan’s trademark style with original watercolors and personal photo… [more below]
- Author: Branch, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0996044019
- Language: English
