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1) Arcadia
Author
Language
English
Description
In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. They include Abe, a master carpenter; Hannah, a baker and historian; and Abe and Hannah's only child, Bit, born soon after the commune. Through Bit, Arcadia follows this romantic, rollicking, and tragic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday and beyond....
2) Drop City
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Language
English
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Description
It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier—the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska—in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naïve optimism, the inhabitants of “Drop City” arrive in the wilderness of Alaska only to find their utopia already populated by other...
3) Boonville
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Surrounded by misfits, rednecks, and counterculture burnouts, John Gibson-the reluctant heir of an alcoholic grandmother-and Sarah McKay-a commune-reared "hippie-by-association"-search for self and community in the hole-of-a-town Boonville. As they try to assemble from the late-twentieth-century jumble of life the facts of sexuality, love, and death, and face the possibility of an existence without God, John and Sarah learn what happens when they...
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Language
English
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Description
The murder of a wealthy young woman sparks a backlash against the hippie commune that has recently arrived in Black River Falls A hippie commune has invaded Black River Falls. While the majority of the townspeople believe that the bohemians have to right to stay—despite how bizarre some of their ways can seem—as always there is a minority that constantly accuses them of everything from criminal activities to Satanism. As usual, lawyer
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English
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"It is 1969, and as Peter, Paul, and Mary croon on the radio, poster paints splash the latest antiwar slogans. Suzanne, a poet, lives in a Maine beach house awaiting the birth of her love child, whom she will name Sparrow. Claudia, who weds a farmer during college, is planning to raise three strong sons. And Elizabeth and Howard get married, organize protest marches, and try to raise their two children with their own earthy, hippie values."--
8) The deep end
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
A respectable lawyer, a summer bachelor, comes home to find his apartment occupied by a couple of hipsters, and four days of terror follow.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Cassie Webster is raised by a flower-child mother Judy and her husband Kirk. He gradually abandons the '60s ideals and enters the legal field and eventually files for divorce and gets custody of his daughter. As Cassie grows up, Cassie and Judy must decide how to be a part of each others' lives.
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Language
English
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Description
In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of eighteen-year-old Phoebe O'Connor.Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe—a quest that yields both complex
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Series
My weird school ; 20
Language
English
Description
When the hippie crossing guard, Mr. Louie, puts a love potion in the water fountain before Valentine's Day, everyone at Ella Mentry School falls in love.
12) Fire sermon
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row, Publishers
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
A young boy finds himself trapped between the secure world of his great-uncle and the exciting lives of a hippie couple.
13) White rabbit
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In the search for a serial killer preying on victims in 1967 San Francisco, homicide inspector John Sparrow teams up with underground writer Amy Cole and ventures into her world of free love, music, and psychedelic drugs.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A girl's moving tale of growing up among hippies without her real father or mother. She is Sarajean, 5, who lives with Jimmy, a heroin-addicted Vietnam veteran, and his alternating girlfriends. She tells her story without rancor, not knowing any other life, though she does long for a steady mother. One day she runs off to find her identity and that's when Jimmy rises to the occasion. The setting is 1970s Denver. A debut in fiction.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking--recklessness, impulse, independence. Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports, the dwarfs recently escaped...
17) Joe
Series
Publisher
Classic Reel
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Account of how an average "Joe" becomes a murderer. An odd friendship grows between a businessman and a blue-collar welder as they search for the businessman's runaway daughter. They are thrust into the midst of the counter-culture, a shocking and humiliating experience that ends in senseless acts of violence.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
"Here are 13 daring and innovative tales dealing with "skinheads, x-ray patients, whores, lovers, fetishists, and other lost souls" who populate landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and contemporary San Francisco. Part fiction, part reportage, these narratives are laced with a bleak and bitter humor, and portray a dazzling array of characters."--fantasticfiction.com.
19) A thousand steps
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Language
English
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Description
"Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Antony is just trying get by. Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom's a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother's fighting in Nam... and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure she's...
Author
Series
Scumbag ; 3
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The world is caught in an all-out war between Scorpionus and Moonflower as the two enact their plans to force their versions of utopia on us all! Our hope for liberation is a drug addled, metalhead pervert and his flying Trans Am--Agent Scumbag!"--
