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Daisy Jones & the Six : a novel / by Reid, Taylor Jenkins,author.;
"A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of a world-famous 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer -- and the secret reasons behind their dramatic break up. Daisy Jones is a beautiful, broken girl growing up in L.A. with rich parents who barely know she exists. But when she sings in a crowded, smoky club, you can hear a pin drop. All she wants is to write her own songs, but the record studio has its own ideas. It's the early 1970s and free love and drugs are everywhere, and Daisy wants to experience it all. Billy Dunne and his brother have a band called The Six that won't be playing weddings for long. They are ambitious, hard-rocking, hard-partying. When they land a record deal, Billy's girlfriend follows them to the West Coast and life begins. But she finds out she's pregnant on the eve of their first tour, and the pressure of fatherhood and incipient fame make Billy go a little crazy on the road. Daisy and Billy's paths cross when a manager realizes that the key to skyrocketing success is to put them together. But oil and water don't even begin to describe how they mix. And what happens next will become the stuff of legend. Written in the style of an "as-told-to" rock autobiography, Daisy Jones & The Six is an unforgettable ride"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Rock groups; Nineteen seventies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 4
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Daisy Jones & the Six [sound recording] : a novel / by Reid, Taylor Jenkins,author.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.; Books on Tape, Inc.,publisher.;
Read by a full cast."A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of a world-famous 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer -- and the secret reasons behind their dramatic break up. Daisy Jones is a beautiful, broken girl growing up in L.A. with rich parents who barely know she exists. But when she sings in a crowded, smoky club, you can hear a pin drop. All she wants is to write her own songs, but the record studio has its own ideas. It's the early 1970s and free love and drugs are everywhere, and Daisy wants to experience it all. Billy Dunne and his brother have a band called The Six that won't be playing weddings for long. They are ambitious, hard-rocking, hard-partying. When they land a record deal, Billy's girlfriend follows them to the West Coast and life begins. But she finds out she's pregnant on the eve of their first tour, and the pressure of fatherhood and incipient fame make Billy go a little crazy on the road. Daisy and Billy's paths cross when a manager realizes that the key to skyrocketing success is to put them together. But oil and water don't even begin to describe how they mix. And what happens next will become the stuff of legend. Written in the style of an "as-told-to" rock autobiography, Daisy Jones & The Six is an unforgettable ride"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographical fiction.; Rock groups; Nineteen seventies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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New boy / by Chevalier, Tracy,author.; Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.Othello.;
"From beloved, bestselling historical novelist Tracy Chevalier, whose mega-hit Girl with a pearl earring enchanted readers around the world, comes a poignant, unforgettable adaptation of Othello set in the fierce world of preadolescent children, where the grown-up forces of love and jealousy, and the hurt of being ostracized, can be as real and as devastating as for any adult. "O felt her presence behind him like a fire at his back." Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day -- so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players -- teachers and pupils alike -- will never be the same again. The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard, where kids fall in and out of love with each other before lunchtime, and practise a casual racism picked up from their parents and teachers. Taking us vividly into the lives and emotions of four eleven-year-olds -- Osei, Dee, Ian and his reluctant "girlfriend" Mimi -- Tracy Chevalier's powerful drama of friends torn apart by jealousy, bullying and betrayal will leave you reeling"--
Subjects: School children; Racism; Nineteen seventies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Brooklyn crime novel / by Lethem, Jonathan,author.;
In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50 years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the laws of the streets.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Criminals; Neighbors; Nineteen seventies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nightwatching / by Cook, Méira,1964-;
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Apartheid; Families; Girls; Nineteen seventies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bootleg stardust : a novel / by Dixon, Glenn,1957-author.;
"Daisy Jones & the Six meets Nick Hornby in this uplit debut novel about a young musician who auditions for a band and is suddenly catapulted into the wild world of rock and roll stardom, where nothing is quite what it seems."
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Rock musicians; Rock groups; Concert tours; Coming of age; Nineteen seventies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Groupies : a novel / by Priscus, Sarah,author.;
Hopping a Greyhound to Los Angeles in 1977, Faun, a naïve college dropout and aspiring photographer, reconnects with her childhood best friend who is a rising model and a muse to a rock band front man.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Groupies; Nineteen seventies; Photographers; Rock groups;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Firefly Lane / by Hannah, Kristin.;
20080303 neb / 20080526 neb 65X
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Change (Psychology); Nineteen eighties; Best friends; Friendship in adolescence; Female friendship; Nineteen seventies;
© 2008., St. Martin's Press,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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How to talk to girls at parties [videorecording] / by Goslett, Philippa,1974-screenwriter.; Mitchell, John Cameron,film director,screenwriter.; Fanning, Elle,1998-actor.; Kidman, Nicole,1967-actor.; Wilson, Ruth,1982-actor.; Lucas, Matt,1974-actor.; Sharp, Alex,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Gaiman, Neil.How to talk to girls at parties.; See-Saw Films,production company.; Little Punk (Firm),production company.; Mongrel Media,publisher.;
Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Wilson, Matt Lucas, Alex Sharp.An alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe, the London suburb of Croydon.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Gaiman, Neil.; Human-alien encounters; Extraterrestrial beings; Teenagers; Love; Nineteen seventies;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The blackmailer's guide to love : a novel / by Thurm, Marian,author.;
One of the many well-educated Ivy League graduates with literary ambitions who flock to New York City every year, 25-year-old Melissa Fleischer has the great fortune to work as the assistant to Austin Bloch, an editor responsible for refining and publishing the work of some of America's most esteemed writers. But after she begins working at this prestigious magazine in the late 1970's, Mel soon learns that the extravagantly long lunches her boss indulges in actually belie his affairs with a stream of young women. Mel is left in the distressing position of lying about these never-ending betrayals to Austin's wife, Hillarie, who often calls while he is out of the office. But then, unexpectedly, the New Yorker begins publishing Mel's short stories, offering a spectacular start to what she hopes will be a long and fruitful writing career. Unfortunately, the exhilaration of being published by the magazine she reveres most is soon diminished both by Mel's deeply painful discovery that her own marriage--like Austin's--is far from idyllic, and her continuing complicity in Austin's betrayals. And nothing seems more difficult than the effort it will take to keep her marriage from falling apart.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Adultery; Authors; Betrayal; Married people; Nineteen seventies; Periodical editors; Truthfulness and falsehood;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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