The 1970s brought seismic shifts to the established cinematic landscape. Bold young directors like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola, and rebellious new stars you knew by one name-Pacino, De Niro, Jack-embraced revolutionary social freedoms and utilized innovative special effects to create a golden era of exciting, influential, and bodaciously fun new movies. It was the Daring Decade, the greatest years ever in the history of...

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

Scott is 15 and growing up in suburban Long Island. While caught up in his first love, Scott watches the relationships of his parents and neighbors slowly crumble as they try to keep up with the changing times.

"In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect - that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever."--Provided by publisher.

"In the turbulent summer of 1974 Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all - beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped...

"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 through drugs and therapy. In Eugene's fictive universe, veterans...

"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.