Chronological Period/1970's
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Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977
$26.95 Add to cartA prizewinning historian and journalist who has covered the pop music scene for more than three decades, James Miller brings a powerful and challenging intellectual perspective to his recounting of so… [more below]
- Author: Miller, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865602
- Language: English
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The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
$24.00 Add to cartImagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a liberation where nothing was straight-laced or old-fashioned. And eve
- Author: Gamson, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425694
- Language: English
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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
$16.95 Add to cartBuried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event th… [more below]
- Author: Fieseler, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 163149595X
- Language: English
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Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992
$28.95 Add to cartHold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York’s downtown music scene during the 1970s an… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0822344858
- Language: English
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Judgment of Paris: Judgment of Paris
$28.99 Add to cartThe only reporter present at the mythic Paris Tasting of 1976 for the first time introduces the eccentric American winemakers and records the tremendous aftershocks of this historic event that changed… [more below]
- Author: Taber, George M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0743247515
- Language: English
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The Man with the Candy: The Story of the Houston Mass Murders
$17.95 Add to cartThe mass murder of almost thirty young boys in Houston may well have been the most heinous crime of the century. How could such a series of murders go undetected for almost three years before being ex… [more below]
- Author: Olsen, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0743212835
- Language: English
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Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia
$24.95 Add to cartIn Sideshow, journalist Shawcross presents the first full-scale investigation of the secret and illegal war the United States fought with Cambodia from 1969 to 1973, paving the way for the Khmer Rouge… [more below]
- Author: Shawcross, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: August 14 2002
- ISBN10: 081541224X
- Language: English
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Spider Eaters: A Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartSpider Eaters is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the C… [more below]
- Author: Yang, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0520276027
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War
$29.99 Add to cartA graphically told history of the Vietnam War, interweaving U.S. political and cultural history with the military history of the war.
When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam- Author: Mactavish
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0809094959
- Language: English
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The Smell of Apples
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times
Winner of the M-Net Award
Winner of The Eugene Marais Award
Winner of the CNA Literary Award
Winner of the Betty Trask Award- Author: Behr, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0312152094
- Language: English
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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
$27.95 Add to cartSet in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest fri… [more below]
- Author: Fuhrman, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0820323381
- Language: English
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Escape
$34.99 Add to cartTehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions explode and the Shah is forced to flee Iran. A British helicopter company–secretly owned by the Noble House of Hong Kong–with a fleet of helicopters r
- Series: Asian Saga #6
- Author: Clavell, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 9798212378369
- Language: English
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Eat the Document
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the National Book Award nominated author of Innocents and Others and Wayward, a bold and moving novel that follows a fugitive radical from the 1970s who has lived in hiding for twenty-five years … [more below]
- Author: Spiotta, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0743273001
- Language: English
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Caucasia
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna’s literary career
“Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race- Author: Senna, Danzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01, 1999
- ISBN10: 1573227161
- Language: English
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In the Country of Men
$18.00 Add to cartLibya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts… [more below]
- Author: Matar, Hisham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0385340435
- 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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Beach House Memories
$20.00 Add to cartMary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of the Lowcountry Summer trilogy, returns to her beloved South with Beach House Memories, the sequel to The Beach House!
Autumn brings haunting bea- Series: Beach House #2
- Author: Monroe, Mary Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 1439170940
- Language: English
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My Struggle, Book 3
$22.00 Read moreThe third volume –the book that made Karl Ove Knausgaard a phenomenon in the United States–in the addictive New York Times bestselling series, My Struggle.
A family of four–mother, father, and two b- Series: My Struggle #3
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0374534160
- Language: English
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A Home at the End of the World
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Hours,” comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hi… [more below]
- Author: Cunningham, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0312202318
- Language: English
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The Ice Storm
$21.99 Add to cartThe year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, dru… [more below]
- Series: Back Bay Books (Series)
- Author: Moody, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0316706000
- Language: English
