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1) Hippie
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384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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English
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An illustrated celebration of the 1960s counterculture captures the political fervor, historical events, slogans, sayings, fashions, styles, music, artwork, and other characteristics and personalities that defined the era from 1965 to 1971.
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English
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"Misadventures in the 1960s-70s US Southwest, Marine Corps, hippies, the Poor People's Campaign, and a fraught passage to Mexico. In the 1960s and 70s a young man faces the Vietnam War, then becomes part of the emerging hippie generation with all its attendant idealism and hope for social change. An adventure story in a peculiar way, a novelization of true stories, of wanderings and musings and pain and passion in the southwestern deserts, with...
4) Drop City
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497 pages ; 20 cm
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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."--Page 4 of cover.
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My weird school volume 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.
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416 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic...
8) Commune
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Documentary on the creation and legacy of Black Bear Ranch Commune, a Northern California community founded in 1968 in the Klamath Wilderness.
10) A thousand steps
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358 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"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...
11) Hair
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Country boy Claude Hooper Bukowski, a Vietnam draftee, embarks on an adventure of a lifetime when he meets a group of counterculture hippies and becomes infatuated with Sheila, a beautiful debutante.
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English
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"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...
14) Hair
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park Lake and finally, in the army. But Berger's final effort...
15) Void trip
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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English
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The story of Ana and Gabe, the last two humans left alive in the galaxy. They're low on fuel, they're low on food, and they're low on psychedelic space froot, but they're still determined to make it to the promised land: hippy-paradise super-planet Euphoria. This is the story of their journey, the friends and enemies they made along the way, and how the universe responded to those who dared to live freely within it.
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English
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"Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic essays, including the title piece, which will transport the listener back to a unique time and place: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood's heyday as a countercultural...
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