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"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 become riskier. A wonderfully written debut novel about...
3) Resistance
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
ix, 163 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly "parties of interest" to the government tell their stories. A young woman in Buenos Aires watches bitterly as her family dissolves in betrayal and illness, but chooses to seek a new understanding of compassion rather than revenge. A carpenter traveling in India changes his life when he explodes in an act of violence out of proportion to its cause....
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Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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"The Renaissance Faire--a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring--receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major 'family friendly' leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the Faire....
Publisher
Gaiam Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"The epic tale of a maverick Mid western farmer. An outcast in his community, Farmer John bravely stands amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and violence. By melding the traditions of family farming with the power of art and free expression, this powerful story of transformation and renewal heralds a resurrection of farming in America"--Container.
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Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 2
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
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Camille, her sister Edel, and her guard and new love Remy must race against time to find Princess Charlotte. Sophia's Imperial forces will stop at nothing to keep the rebels from returning Charlotte to the castle and her rightful place as queen. With the help of an underground resistance movement called The Iron Ladies-a society that rejects beauty treatments entirely-and the backing of alternative newspaper The Spider's Web, Camille uses her powers,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1971
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Kowalski is a man who's tried to live by the rules, but experience has left him believing that the pretentions of the world offer no salvation and no freedom. Trying to transcend the limits of life, he takes a Dodge Challenger and bets that he can drive from Denver to San Francisco in fifteen hours. With the police soon in pursuit, he attempts to beat the odds, along the way recalling episodes from his past and encountering a supporting cast of characters...
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Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 22 cm.
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After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
10) Becoming nobody
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the life and career of American psychologist, counterculture icon and spiritual leader Ram Dass.
12) Homeland
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Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (306 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Varda meets a Greek relative for the first time in Sausalito; follows an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers co-founder, Huey P. Newton; creators of the musical "Hair" and Viva, a woman from the Warhol Factory, live together, talking about love, fame, and politics; explores the public murals of Los Angeles; drama about a divorced mother and her son living a marginal life in Los Angeles.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
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"'If you are reading this, I am dead.' So begins this engrossing debut novel the ingeniously reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of behemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer, a woman ahead of her time, a feminist who lived by her own rules and paid the ultimately price for her independence. She was a longtime lover of JFK. She was the ex-wife of a CIA chief. She was the sister-in-law of the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee....
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"The mid-life crisis handed to Joanna Pocock came in a box marked with one simple word: Montana. With their seven-year-old daughter in tow, Joanna and her husband packed up their house, filled one suitcase each, and left the rhythms of life in England behind for their great adventure in the American West. Blending personal memoir with insightful reportage and vivid nature writing, award-winning writer Joanna Pocock investigates the changing landscape...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One day you're a career 9-to-5er with a pending marriage, and then next you know, you chuck it all for beads, bell-bottoms and free love. This is the life of Harold Fine, a dedicated lawyer about to become a more dedicated dropout.
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xvi, 431, [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Description
Describes how "phone phreaks" learned how to make illicit but technologically innovative free phone calls and shared the technique, and places the process in the development of telecommunications and the behavior of the telephone monopoly.
19) La bahía
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Publisher
Principal Noir
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Hay una oscuridad dentro de todos nosotros y The Bay tiene una forma de sacarla. Todos aquí tienen sus secretos, pero no vamos a buscarlos. Porque a veces es mejor no saber. Kenna llega a Sydney para sorprender a su mejor amiga. Pero Mikki y su prometido Jack están a punto de irse de viaje, por lo que Kenna se encuentra acompañándolos en el viaje. Sorrow Bay es hermosa, salvaje y peligrosa. Un lugar remoto para surfear con olas para morirse, aislado...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of Radio Free Vermont--"underground, underpowered, and underfoot"--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson,...
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