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Virginia

Everyone remembers age 13. For Alison Glass, it was 1975, the year she moved to Weston, Connecticut, with her bohemian parents and her horse, Jazz. Life was about trying to navigate the hypocrisies of an unfamiliar affluent town and figuring out how she m

History Lesson for Girls

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Kansas

A Novel

From TV personality and radio host Bill Flanagan comes a highly entertaining time-traveling adventure novel about how the past never gives up its hold on the present and how even sixty-five-year-olds are still kids at heart. If you had the chance to live your life over again, knowing everything that you know now, would you take it? Would you still take it if it meant losing everything you have today? Would a second chance to correct every mistake and missed opportunity be worth giving up the world you know and the life you have built? In Fifty in Reverse, fifteen-year-old Peter Wyatt does just that. In the spring of 1970, Harvard psychologist Terry Canyon is introduced to Peter, a quiet kid from a wealthy family who has been suspended from ninth grade for stripping off his clothes in Algebra class. When Terry asks Peter why he did it, the boy explains that he was trying to “shock myself awake.” It turns out that Peter believes he is a sixty-five-year-old man who went to sleep in his home in New York in the year 2020 and woke up in his childhood bedroom fifty years earlier. Hilariously depicting Peter’s attempts to fit in as a fifteen-year-old in 1970 and to cope with the tedium, foolishness, and sexual temptations of high school as he tries to retain the sense of himself as a sixty-five-year-old man, Fifty in Reverse is a thought-provoking and enlightening novel about second chances and appreciating the life you have today.

Fifty in Reverse

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

For the Ruin family in 1970s California, as described by the precocious young Inez, life is complex. Her father, Paul, is self-obsessed, intrusive, and brilliant. He's also twice divorced, leaving Inez to bounce between two worlds and embracing neither-that of Paul's bohemian life in San Francisco and the more sedate world of her mother Connie, a Latin bombshell who plays tennis and attends EST seminars in the suburbs. As Inez progresses through high school we are witness to a remarkable family saga that renders a strange and fascinating slice of America in transition-one like the Ruins of California themselves, at once bold and innocent, creative and chaotic, obsessed and liberating.

The Ruins of California

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Ohio

"Beautifully written... Timely and pressing... McCraw Crow deftly navigates the campus and national politics of the '70s." --Amy Meyerson, bestselling author of The Imperfects

A powerful exploration of what a woman can be when what she should be is no longer an option

In late 1970, Oliver Desmarais drops dead in his front yard while hanging Christmas lights. In the year that follows, his widow, Virginia, struggles to find her place on the campus of the elite New Hampshire men's college where Oliver was a professor. While Virginia had always shared her husband's prejudices against the four outspoken, never-married women on the faculty--dubbed the Gang of Four by their male counterparts--she now finds herself depending on them, even joining their work to bring the women's movement to Clarendon College.

Soon, though, reports of violent protests across the country reach this sleepy New England town, stirring tensions between the fraternal establishment of Clarendon and those calling for change. As authorities attempt to tamp down "radical elements," Virginia must decide whether she's willing to put herself and her family at risk for a cause that had never felt like her own.

Told through alternating perspectives, The Wrong Kind of Woman is an engrossing story about finding the strength to forge new paths, beautifully woven against the rapid changes of the early '70s.



The Wrong Kind of Woman

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Minnesota

This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification." This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the most simple human decisions—what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money—are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is the story of 1990s America, when no one cared anymore. This is the story of punk, that easy white rebellion, and crack, that monstrous plague. This is the story of the loneliness of the avant-garde artist and the exuberance of the graffiti artist. This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: They would screw up their lives. This is the story of joyous afternoons of stickball and dreaded years of schoolyard extortion. This is the story of belonging to a society that doesn't accept you. This is the story of prison and of college, of Brooklyn and Berkeley, of soul and rap, of murder and redemption. This is the story Jonathan Lethem was born to tell. This is THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.

The Fortress of Solitude

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Texas

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Arkansas

Set against the backdrop of a commune in 1970s Northern California, Clover Blue is a compelling, beautifully written story of a young boy's search for identity.

There are many things twelve-year-old Clover Blue isn't sure of- his exact date of birth, his name before he was adopted into the Saffron Freedom Community, or who his first parents were. What he does know with certainty is that among this close-knit, nature-loving group, he is happy. Here, everyone is family, regardless of their disparate backgrounds--surfer, midwife, Grateful Dead groupie, Vietnam deserter. But despite his loyalty to the commune and its guru-like founder Goji, Blue grapples with invisible ties toward another family--the one he doesn't remember.

With the urging of his fearless and funny best friend, Harmony, Clover Blue begins to ask questions. For the first time, Goji's answers fail to satisfy. The passing months bring upheaval to their little clan and another member arrives, a beautiful runaway teen named Rain, sparking new tensions. As secrets slowly unfurl, Blue's beliefs--about Goji, the guidelines that govern their seemingly idyllic lives, and the nature of family itself--begin to shift. With each revelation about a heartbreaking past he never imagined, Blue faces a choice between those he's always trusted, and an uncertain future where he must risk everything in his quest for the truth.


Part coming-of-age tale, part love story, part mystery, Clover Blue tenderly explores an unconventional but no less complex family that resonates with our deep-rooted yearning for home.

Clover Blue

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North Carolina

Vintage Bundle

#hardcover #poetry #lovepoems #1960s #1970s #vintage fair to poor condition, wear on front and back jackets, some inner water damage, page stains, pencil markings 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

(Poetry)

Listen to the Warm 

- Hardcover 
- Copyright 1979, First Edition
- In good condition: shows shelf and reading wear
- From a smoke free home 

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Wyoming

A Firsthand Report on College Life Today

Campus Shock

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#childrens #vintage #1970s #70s #animals #jungle 

Massachusetts

The Lion's Bed

Horrified at the prospect of the lion's moving to their part of the jungle, the animals set about building him a bed--but not to sleep in.

Weekly Reader Children's Book Club Presents

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#paperback #1970s #mystery #speculative #detective

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

The private eyes you read about in books are extinct. The demand is no longer there, the cases no longer exciting, the job no longer what you always imagined it to be, and maybe never was at all. Joe Iocca, an undistinguished veteran P.I., hadn't seen a new client walk through his doors in several months. So when his former clients start appearing, asking him to solve their cases as if he never had, the fact that they haven't aged a day is worth investigating. In the tumult of his mysterious circumstances, Joe stumbles into a cold case homicide. Little Girl is out to find her father's real killer. Lewis wants the same thing, his dad having done thirty-three years for the murder that everyone is sure he didn't commit. There were always plenty of other suspects to pick from, but none of them were black men like Lewis's old man.Set in 1970's Missouri and present day California, Priors is meta-detective-fiction in the mold of Paul Auster's "The New York Trilogy." Like a heady Elmore Leonard story, it seamlessly blends the classic who-done-it crime novel with oddball comedy, insightful character-study, true depth and surprising heart. Fans of crime stories, noir and literary fiction alike will enjoy this genre-bending debut novel.

Priors

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Georgia

The French Lieutenant’s woman

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Arriving in New York to pursue a creative career in the raucous 1970s art scene, Reno joins a group of dreamers and raconteurs before falling in love with the estranged son of an Italian motorcycle scion and succumbing to a radical social movement in 1977 Italy. By the National Book Award-nominated author of Telex from Cuba.

The Flamethrowers

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1979 edition. The dust jacket has seen better days, has tears, tape, and stains on it, although still legible and the artwork is in pretty good shape. The book itself has a little bit of spine wear where the board has gotten squished, pictured, but still very readable and in good shape otherwise. 

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Colorado

Vintage Book

The Faded Sun: Kutath 

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Inside Out & Back Again

#nonfiction #biography #autobiography #paperback #1970s

A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s

Gives an account of the author's life from age twelve to eighteen, crafted from diaries, notebooks, and letters, and reflects all the joys and sorrows of growing up in the 1970s.

Miss American Pie

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Well-loved copy from 1973. Pretty sure my mom got it when it first came out for the 99 cents advertised on the cover. #desserts #jello #vintage #1970s #recipes

Connecticut

The New Joys of Jell-O Recipe Book

#radicalism #protest #rebellion #weathermen #sla #blackpanthers #1960s #1970s

America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the First Age of Terror

Days of rage provides an account of the volatile period of 1968-1975, in which home-grown terrorist groups wreaked havoc in major US cities. The FBIs response to the leftist revolutionary counterculture seems almost criminal in itself to many, but as this ground-breaking book shows, this was a period of menace where radicals were smuggling bombs into public spaces and assassinating policemen. This book takes us into the hearts and minds of home-grown terrorists and federal agents alike and weaves their stories into a spellbinding secret history of the 1970s.

Days of Rage

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Indiana

Sean and Liz and Dennis and Maggie’s! Senior year isn’t the end of high school- it’s the beginning of life!

My Darling,My Hamburger 

#1970s #juvenilefiction #fiction #paperback #historical #thanhhalai 

New Jersey

Revisits the decade of self-discovery and self-fulfillment with photographs and commentary on some of the most popular television, motion picture, and national celebrities of the decade, including Richard Pryor, Erica Jong, and Michael Jackson.

People Celebrates the 70s

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Pennsylvania

Inseparable best friends Kate and Tully, two young women who, despite their very different lives, have vowed to be there for each other forever, have been true to their promise for thirty years, until events and choices in their lives tear them apart. Reprint. 300,000 first printing.

Firefly Lane

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#travel #americana #natgeo #nationalgeographic #photography #roadtrip #1970s

A Book by National Geographic that covers several vacation spots all over the United States, with articles, pictures, and even the contact information for vacation information for each of the states in the USA.

This book is in good vintage condition with no wear to the spine or binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small tears on the front and back covers and some slight discoloration near the edges. Includes a foldout US travel map.

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History Lesson for Girls

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Fifty in Reverse

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The Ruins of California

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The Wrong Kind of Woman

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The Fortress of Solitude

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Kennedy space Center

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Listen to the Warm

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Weekly Reader Children's Book Club Presents

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Priors

John Fowles

The French Lieutenant’s woman

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The Flamethrowers

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The Faded Sun: Kutath

Thanhha Lai

Inside Out & Back Again

Margaret Sartor

Miss American Pie

General Foods Corporation

The New Joys of Jell-O Recipe Book

Bryan Burrough

Days of Rage

Paul Zindel

My Darling,My Hamburger

Thanhha Lai

Inside Out & Back Again

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People Celebrates the 70s

Kristin Hannah

Firefly Lane

National Geographic Society

Vacationland U.S.A.