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English
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In 1956 New York City, Marion Brooks, one of the famous Radio City Rockettes, is unwittingly drawn into the police search for the “Big Apple Bomber” and may be forced to sacrifice everything she’s worked for, as well as the people she loves most, to catch this elusive criminal.
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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
4) Pulp
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Duel narratives follow an eighteen-year-old closeted lesbian in 1955 keeping a secret romance and wanting to write her own stories and another young woman sixty-two years later studying 1950s lesbian pulp fiction for her senior project.
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Series
Language
English
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Arthur becomes friends with the hottest girl in his class even though she has a crush on his older brother and must come to terms with grief and how to go on when a sudden tragedy changes his world. Tells how Arthur Moses, a shy young man, becomes the wise and compassionate person readers loved in The Story of Arthur Truluv.
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Language
English
Description
In the late 1950s – a hostile time for gay men, reporter Nick Russo forms an unlikely friendship with Andy Fleming, the son of a newspaper-tycoon father, and as they work closely together, they fall in love and must decide if, for the first time, they’re willing to fight.
11) You are my song
Author
Series
The Carousel trilogy volume 3
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Young Jamie encounters many obstacles that threaten to undermine his journey to fulfill his dream of becoming a professional singer.
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Language
English
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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 by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Catapulted into the 1950 Miss America Pageant by her ambitious mother, Betty falls for her mercurial escort, Griff, and impulsively runs away with him, unaware that an enamored reporter seeks to expose her paramour's dark secret.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, Freddy Otash, the Tattle Tyrant for Confidential magazine who held Hollywood hostage, decides to tell all, in this tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films, and strange bedfellows.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An aspiring ornithologist in a post-World War II world where women are expected to assume traditional roles reluctantly shares an unfulfilling marriage with a professor before bonding with a Vietnam vet who helps her recognize the changes happening throughout the world.
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
After being sold to the circus in 1931 by her parents, Lilly Blackwood develops a fateful attachment to the elephants she works with, while twenty years later, Julia Blackwood, inheriting her family's estate, learns of Lilly's existence and the family's dark secrets.
17) The house of Eve
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, the lives of 15-year-old Ruby Pearsall, whose taboo affair threatens her dreams of being the first in her family to attend college, and Eleanor Quarles, who hopes having a baby will gain her husband’s wealthy family’s acceptance, collide in the most unexpected of ways.
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