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21) Wanderlust
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After George loses his high-stress Manhattan job, he and his wife Linda hit the road and wind up crashing at Elysium, a free-spirited community of hippies, tree-huggers, and the occasional nudist.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. But Ursa's powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish community of sisterhood takes an ominous turn, prompting her...
24) Wrecker
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After foster-parenting four young siblings a decade ago, Summer Wood tried to imagine a place where kids who are left alone or taken from their families would find the love and the family they deserve. For her, fiction was the tool to realize that world, and Wrecker, the central character in her second novel, is the abandoned child for whom life turns around in most unexpected ways. It's June of 1965 when Wrecker enters the world. The war is raging...
25) Over you
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about two girls on the run from their problems, their pasts, and themselves. Max and Sadie are escaping to Nebraska, but they'll soon learn they can't escape the truth"--
26) Chasing prophecy
Author
Publisher
Skookum Trail Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Tormented by bullies, Mo is a boy just trying to survive high school in a mysterious mountain town known as the "Bigfoot Sighting Capital of the World." He secretly loves Prophecy, a girl living with a group that some call a commune and others call a cult. When her family starts down a dark path, Mo learns that real terror doesn't hide in the woods surrounding Boulder Creek. Far scarier are the monsters found much closer to home. Chasing Prophecy...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial...
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Julie visits Gold Moon Ranch, a farming commune in California's gold rush country, the back-to-the-land lifestyle seems idyllic at first. But peculiar problems keep cropping up, almost as if someone was trying to shut down the commune! Then, on a secret trip to an abandoned gold mine, Julie stumbles on a mysterious message that hints at long-lost treasure. Julie is desperate to find it, before danger closes in on Gold Moon Ranch."--Publisher....
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug's possibilities such that their "research" becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a free-wheeling exploration...