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Pub. Date
2013
Description
Set in the 70's Wisconsin suburbs, high school student Eric lives with his parents, Red & Kitty. Next door lives his girlfriend Donna and her parents, Bob and Midge. The rest of Eric's friends include Jackie, and her on again-off again boyfriend Kelso, Hyde, a conspiracy theorist, and Fez, a foreign exchange student who is soaking up American culture like a sponge. The group likes to spend their time in Eric's basement, pondering their lives, parents,...
103) My Queen Karo
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In 1974, 10-year old Karo's parents join a squatter community in Amsterdam but soon the idea that everything is shared begins to divide the group.
104) The holdovers (DVD)
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
105) Licorice pizza
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
107) The big country
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"The Old West finally died in 1980. But we're in Texas, and it's 1978. This is the story of Grissom Callahan, the last in a long line of sheriffs. Callahan learned everything he knows from his father and grandfather, but the ways of the old regime don't prove effective when a violent serial killer emerges in their small town. In a single moment of shaking down an informant, Grissom triggers a chain of events that will reshape his life and the world...
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Just outside the mesmerizing glint of the disco ball, the Seventies seem like a time of madness: war raged in Southeast Asia, America's president was crooked, Olympic athletes were slain, cult members drank poisoned punch, and the Son of Sam stalked the night. It was, in retrospect, a terrifying time only slightly ameliorated by the distractions of a decadent nightlife culture and over-the-top pop icons."--History Channel website.
109) The Good Humor man
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
It's 1976 and life is all about rebellion. Mischievous high school sophomore Jay Skibness thinks he has it made: good friends, good times, and good weed. But when Jay's best friend is linked to the murder of a kid from another clique, life suddenly becomes a conflict between conscience and character. While his best friend drowns himself in guilt, Jay escapes into the arms of the free spirited Wendy-- the rich girl who thinks he's dangerous. The two...
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Throughout history, every decade has its own unique identity, it’s touchstone moments—precise points in time that reside within history’s collective memory . This unique series of DVD collections pulls together some of the finest programs in THE HISTORY CHANNEL library to bring to life the most evocative and meaningful people and events of each decade in the 20th century.
111) Rush
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Set against the golden age of Formula One racing in the 1970s, Rush is based on the true story of a spectacular sporting rivalry between English playboy James Hunt, and his structured, intelligent opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Just outside the mesmerizing glint of the disco ball, the Seventies seem like a time of madness: war raged in Southeast Asia, America's president was crooked, Olympic athletes were slain, cult members drank poisoned punch, and the Son of Sam stalked the night. It was, in retrospect, a terrifying time only slightly ameliorated by the distractions of a decadent nightlife culture and over-the-top pop icons."--History Channel website.
Author
Series
Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"It's 1985 and things in Ethan's life are going pretty well ... until a missing woman shows up in the background of an old B-movie, and Ethan is drawn into Hollywood's secret occult underbelly as he hunts for her among the wreckage of the wild days of the '70s."--
Author
Series
Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
It's 1988 and Ethan has been hired for his strangest case yet: finding the secrets of a Los Angeles real estate mogul. How hard could that be, right? Only what starts as a deep dive into the life of a stranger will soon take a deadly turn, and find Ethan risking everything that still matters to him.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Just outside the mesmerizing glint of the disco ball, the Seventies seem like a time of madness: war raged in Southeast Asia, America's president was crooked, Olympic athletes were slain, cult members drank poisoned punch, and the Son of Sam stalked the night. It was, in retrospect, a terrifying time only slightly ameliorated by the distractions of a decadent nightlife culture and over-the-top pop icons."--Container.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Just outside the mesmerizing glint of the disco ball, the Seventies seem like a time of madness: war raged in Southeast Asia, America's president was crooked, Olympic athletes were slain, cult members drank poisoned punch, and the Son of Sam stalked the night. It was, in retrospect, a terrifying time only slightly ameliorated by the distractions of a decadent nightlife culture and over-the-top pop icons."--Container.
120) Proctor Valley Road
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"August, Rylee, Cora, and Jennie have organized a "Spook Tour" with their classmates on the most haunted, demon-infested stretch of road in America to fund attending the concert of their dreams. But when their visit turns deadly, these four friends race to rescue the missing students... before the town tears them limb from limb. Now they must slay the evils roaming Proctor Valley Road, along with the monsters lurking in the hearts of 1970s America."--Back...