Books tagged: 60s

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Plastic Ozone Daydream: The Corvette Chronicles    by Floyd M. Orr
Price: $2.99 USD. 97550 words. Published on May 12, 2009. .

Plastic Ozone Daydream combines fact and fantasy on a wild ride through the birth, growth, and maturity of the sports car in America during the turbulent half-century, 1950-2000. Plastic Ozone Daydream is intended to be both fun to read and challenging to the intellect, taking the reader on a journey he never knew existed— through the crossroads of his own mind. Look deeply into the reflection.
Mann on Film: It's a Mad World and other essays    by S. E. Mann
Price: Free! 29170 words. Published on December 2, 2009. .

S.E. Mann celebrates American cinema and culture in this first in a series of books on entertainment. From his Tokyo hideaway, S.E. Mann offers up a blue plate special of juicy insight garnished with humor and gushing with delicious admiration for America's most beloved institution, Hollywood.
Road To Chupadero    by Philip Wooldridge
Price: $0.99 USD. 2600 words. Published by Four Moons Books  on January 29, 2010. .

Having given up on the world, a Vietnam veteran and loner reflects upon his life, and contemplates his end days, while traveling the back roads from West Texas to New Mexico.
Steal This Hero: An Abbie Hoffman Love Song In Two Verses, One Chorus and a Coda    by Jack Preston King
Price: $0.99 USD. 4440 words. Published by New Paradigm Press  on March 17, 2010. .

Really?, I thought. Abbie Hoffman? The guy too dangerous to read? I remind you of him? By comparing me to Abbie, Mom had meant to insult me, to label me a full-fledged traitorous Anarcho-Communist freak.For me, what she'd done was hand me the keys to full membership in the Great Subversive WE. If I was to accept that membership, I reasoned, I'd better find out exactly who WE are. I stole the book.
Warriors, Peacemakers and the Embarrassing Question of Love: A Peacenik's Memoir of the 1991 Gulf War    by Jack Preston King
Price: $0.99 USD. 4100 words. Published by New Paradigm Press  on March 17, 2010. .

Of this I was certain: To meet the violent hysteria of war with an equally hysterical peace movement could only create an irreconcilable "Us-Them" situation. As with the war, there would have to be winners and losers. But to meet a hysterical world with an open heart might bring a lasting peace, an "Us-Us" situation in which everybody won. And to be so idealistic, so Utopian, was embarrassing...
We Are Not Alone: Mom, Dad, ET and Me - or - How I Grew Up To Be a Person Who Thinks Extraterrestrial Contact Matters    by Frank G. Wilkinson
Price: $0.99 USD. 2430 words. Published by New Paradigm Press  on March 23, 2010. .

"There it is! Let's go!"One of the peculiarities that drew my parents together was a shared love for chasing UFOs. This was the early Sixties, before the New Age twisted the sport into an expensive tourist attraction. In their day, it took guts. The grinding moan of a floored accelerator. A steady clatter of rocks as the car rockets across the open sand. "Get a picture! Quick! Before it moves!"...
Second Chance    by Chet Williamson
Price: $2.99 USD. 118370 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on November 23, 2010. .

Woody Robinson, a successful musician, gathers his baby boomer friends and recreates an evening in 1969 out of nostalgia for his long dead love, Tracy. By the evening's end, Tracy is back in Woody's life as though she had never left. But there is another change as well, a shocking one. His name is Pan. An environmental terrorist who wants to save the world by destroying humanity.
Silent Scream: a Groovy Mystery Caper    by James Huskins
Price: $2.99 USD. 66730 words. Published on December 8, 2010. .

Old secrets, a Hollywood legend and murder.... It's 1960. Nora Bates, a silent-film star known as "Lil' Screamer", is publishing her memoirs loaded with old Hollywood's dirty little secrets, unless someone freeze-frames her in a final silent scream.
Daniel    by David Grace
Price: $3.95 USD. 54690 words. Published on December 13, 2010. .

In 1968 Major Daniel Leighton's F-4 was shot down over North Vietnam. Leighton made his way to the ocean. Just as he was about to sail onto the Gulf of Tonkin where he might be spotted by Air/Sea Rescue, he was captured and taken the Hoa Lo Prison, the infamous Hanoi Hilton. There Leighton underwent emotional and terrifying events but survived and came home. That's about 60% of the story.
The Kiss    by Brian Jackson
Price: $0.99 USD. 6760 words. Published on January 7, 2011. .

"My name is Steve Merriman and I'm eleven years old... Today, March 11th, 1969, after school, I have to kiss a girl." Thus begins the charming story of the longest day in a young boy's life. Here, for the first time as a standalone story is a remembrance from days gone by when: drop drills were performed to prepare for the bomb, girls had koodies, and a first kiss was both scary and enthralling.