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1) Drop City
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English
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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...
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My weird school ; 20
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English
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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.
3) Arcadia
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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....
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"She has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time."—Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review. Here in digital format for the first time is Joan Didion's landmark collection of essays Slouching Towards Bethlehem, work that helped define the New Journalism of the late 1960s and today stands as some of the very finest nonfiction writing ever produced by an American writer. Reflective and brilliantly
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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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"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."--
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AuthorHouse LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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""Takilma Tales: The Hippie History of Takilma, Oregon", explores the evolution of a small village near the former town of Waldo, a Gold Rush ghost town, in remote Southwest Oregon. In the 60s and the 70s, young hippies flocked to the run-down mining and logging town of Takilma on the edge of the Siskiyou Mountains, which saddle the border between California and Oregon. In that wilderness, the hippies transformed the small town, and with hard work...
15) Easy rider
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Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the real America.
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English
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When her mother sells the family home in the big city, crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to follow her eccentric family to a rural village on the coast of southern Thailand. She's convinced her career - maybe her life - is over. But that changes with the murder of a local abbot and the unearthing of a van containing the skeletal remains of two hippies. Now Jimm's life seems a bit more exciting, a bit more promising - and a lot more deadly.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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An enthusiastic ode to free spirits of all generations. A young girl describes all the things she likes about her grandmother, including growing vegetables, picketing City Hall, and playing the banjo. Who says grandmothers have to wear tidy buns and be relegated to rocking chairs? In lilting rhyme and sunny psychedelic colors, Reeve Lindbergh and Abby Carter introduce the most vibrant, tie-dyed grandmother ever to dance her way across a picture book...
19) The deep end
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Viking Press
Pub. Date
1967.
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English
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A respectable lawyer, a summer bachelor, comes home to find his apartment occupied by a couple of hipsters, and four days of terror follow.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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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.
