Books tagged: counterculture

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EyeLeash: A Blog Novel (teenage memoir, coming of age, internet romance, sexting)    by Jess C Scott
Price: $4.99 USD. 65700 words. Published on July 14, 2009. .

Jade Ashton is a sassy virgin. In her blog, she vents about "fitting in" a superficial world. Suddenly all logic flies out the window when she meets Novan: the former geek, who's morphed into a delicious songwriter-musician. EyeLeash captures self-discovery in the 2000s, and showcases the intricate drama in two youths' relentless search for themselves--and what's really in their hearts.
Vital Fluid    by Tom Bradley
Price: $3.99 USD. 31940 words. Published by Enigmatic Ink  on November 18, 2009. .

Two parallel story lines are distanced by time and culture in this satiric alternate history, modern fantasy exploration. Rival hypnotists are pitted against each other in an increasingly bizarre series of performances across an absurdly chaotic America; while, woven in like fine silk, a pair of Victorian era mesmerists match mystical wits before the intolerant and intolerable European bourgeoisie
Another Place, Another Time    by Max G. Bernard
Price: $1.99 USD. 17390 words. Published on January 20, 2010. .

Five Stories. A short anthology of stories by Max G. Bernard. Four science fiction stories and a semi-autobiographical tale of the 1960's. Includes: "If Only," "Second Time Around," "Meeting of the Minds," "Warm Summer Night," and "The Reader Suffers the Loss of Dostoyevsky."
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...
Famous Potatoes    by Joe Cottonwood
Price: $1.99 USD. 77270 words. Published on March 25, 2010. .

A classic road novel from the 1970s, now an ebook. Willy, a nice boy from the suburbs, is framed for murder and goes on the lam. With hopeful heart and broken balls he joins the people of humble cafes and dusty bars, underground, where life is basic. “An engaging, warm, well-told story of a likable character with a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”—Publisher’s Weekly
Look for Our Mother and Our Father    by Anonymous 
Price: $3.00 USD. 108230 words. Published on December 8, 2010. .

Imagine you have spent your life in the middle of a dust storm, and the air finally clears. Now you can clearly see things that you had not even realized were distorted… This book questions everything we think we know, everything we think we have learned through the natural and social sciences, every theory proposed by our philosophers and theologians, and everything taught to us by our culture.
The Trip - A True Karmal Korn Adventure    by Jeffrey Koconis
Price: $2.99 USD. 19650 words. Published on March 7, 2011. .

Two teenage boys decide to hitchhike to California during the heyday of the anti-Vietnam War counterculture on a quest to experience the essence of the hippie phenomena they have embraced as their identity. Humor and love are blended with fear and hatred as they encounter the people and events that transform them from boys to men. It is a timeless story of youth coming of age in a divided nation.
Huckleberry Milton    by Bradley J Milton
Price: Free! 89810 words. Published by TopReads on May 25, 2011. .

Businessman and former hippie Huckleberry Milton, his robotic sidekick Jerry Garcia, and a new Jim Morrison look-alike find themselves together on a trip back to the Silicon Valley of the late 1960s in search of a solution to save 21st century America's failing economy.
Ultra Murder    by W. Strawn Douglas
Price: Free! 58920 words. Published on June 29, 2011. .

Ultra Murder is what happens when you put an old definition of mind expansion into ‎play against the security needs of a post Iraq-Afghan reality.