nineteen seventies

Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on the events of the late 1970s which saw continuing conflicts over women's rights, affirmative action, and busing.

Chronicles the pivotal moments of the early 1970s and covers the effects events such as the war in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal had on Americans.

"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she's pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice"--.

"In an isolated silver mining town in Idaho in the 1970s, almost everyone in town lost someone in the disastrous fire. Jordan is a young widow with twin children; David, a college student trying to make a life for himself in another town; Lionel, a lifelong hard-rock miner. It's a tough, hard-working, hard-drinking town, but as they struggle to come to terms with the loss nobody's tough enough to get through this undamaged."--Provided by publisher.

"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."--Back cover.

Derf describes his classmate Jeffrey Dahmer's teenage years as a lonely oddball. Dahmer would go on to become one of the United States' most notorious serial killers.

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

"Discusses the decade 1970-1979 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the lives, careers, and works of fashion designers Yves Saint Laurent and Halston, discussing the social, cultural, and economic factors that influenced them, and their impact on fashion in the 1970s. Also details the designers' use of color, materials, construction techniques, accessories, and perfume. Includes color photographs and a timeline.

Joey Peacock has enjoyed perfecting his routine of womanizing and feeding as a vampire in the 1970s, but his underground playground becomes dangerous when a new group of children with merry eyes begins hunting in his domain.