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Greenhorn Valley Book Club 2022
Kirkus Reviews: The Best Fiction Books of 2021
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: October 4, 2021
Kirkus Reviews: The Best Fiction Books of 2021
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: October 4, 2021
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
3) The runaway
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Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When her pet dachshund, Scooter, goes missing, Maryellen decides to go looking for him, a search which leads her to the rocket launchpad at Cape Canaveral.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1955 California, as Invasion of the Body Snatchers is filmed in their hometown, thirteen-year-old Arnie discovers a real enemy when he and three friends go against a young government agent determined to find communists at a nearby university or on the movie set.
5) Equal
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English
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"It's the summer of 1959 at the foot of Bakers Mountain in western North Carolina when 13-year-old Jackie Honeycutt first bumps into Thomas Freeman fishing on the riverbank. They hit it off, and Jackie hopes the two of them can be friends. But Jackie is white, and Thomas is Black -- and Jackie quickly learns their growing friendship won't be easy. North Carolina is the focus of the growing civil rights movement, and through his friendship with Thomas,...
6) The 1950s
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Facts On File
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
vii, 504 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (30 minutes) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Experience all of the sights and sounds of 1960, including noteworthy news footage, fashion, fads, comedy, dance and musical performances, commercials, sports, science and lifestyle commentary, interwoven into a charming, nostalgia-inducing collage, guaranteed to evoke familiar, perhaps forgotten memories of simpler times.
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"New York Times bestseller Beatriz Williams is back with another enthralling summer read"--
"June 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford...
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