Books tagged: sixties counterculture

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Carnival    by Ron Sanders
Price: Free! 127930 words. Published on December 7, 2010. .

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll—the Sixties through a bilious eye. Creative Writing 101.
Sub Rosa America: The Future Arrives By Stealth, Book II    by Elana Freeland
Price: $4.99 USD. 77220 words. Published on January 12, 2012. .

The old California of Father Junípero Serra and Hollywood slide past the young seekers as they flee the coast for the Southwest desert where Strangeloves have loosed a quantum Time experiment. Once they pick up the Mayan Timekeeper, the future pursues them like Hamlet's ghost as dreamers and the dead seek to warn them about the brave new America brewing in the cauldron of the Enterprise.
Memoirs of a Flower Child    by George Geisinger
Price: $0.99 USD. 35130 words. Published on April 3, 2012. .

This is a responsible look back at the time in America called the 60's. It's been said that if you remember the 60's, you weren't really there. Well, this book is for those who'd like to take a look back at the 60's and the 70's, to re-evaluate what they've left behind. A lot of the times I really have forgotten. Most of all, this book is for fun.
Just Like a Woman: The Rock Criticism of Ellen Willis    by Feedback Press
Price: $0.99 USD. 4110 words. Published on April 10, 2012. .

The 1960s, Ellen Willis said, were a time when magazines saw that “there was this thing called youth culture, and they were interested in getting authentic young people to write about it.” Willis was one of these. Right out of the box, her rock criticism was as unsentimental as it was passionate, with the publication of a 1967 essay in Commentary about Bob Dylan that was personal journalism at it.
Sub Rosa America: Indian Country, Book III    by Elana Freeland
Price: $4.99 USD. 107540 words. Published on April 19, 2012. .

The Sixties pilgrims enter Arizona Indian Country guided by KRMA radio broadcasts and a stream of quantum encounters. Thomas’ father Laurence continues his European quest for the soul he’s lost, his brother Hiram continues selling his soul to AT&T and LUCIFER, and Dr. Greenbaum and his Magician contemplate what the simultaneous incarnations of Saint Germain and Vitzliputzli bode.
Mechanical Mouse    by Ralph A. Thomas
Price: $3.99 USD. 5960 words. Published by Martian Publishing  on May 4, 2012. .

This is a humorously cynical view of society and the moral systems we have developed. The poems poke fun at government, hippies, the drug culture, romance, sexuality, sociology, politics, and so many things about life that we take for granted everyday. Most were written in my "angry young man" days in college. Cute illustrations accompany each poem. That is, "cute" if you like rodents.
Sub Rosa America: Jundi-Shapur, Book IV    by Elana Freeland
Price: $7.99 USD. 113860 words. Published on August 11, 2012. .

Book IV, “Jundi-Shapur,” explores the military shadow hanging over Indian Country. As Didymus makes contact in Gallup and the high-stakes Manichaean drama between the ancient initiatic center of Chaco Canyon and the Jundi-Shapur of the modern era at Los Alamos begins to reveal itself, Thomas’ father Laurence returns from Europe a different man and discovers a telling note beside Hiram's telephone.
Getting Off    by Joshua Tal
Price: $5.99 USD. 80060 words. Published on January 29, 2013. .

A novel about the end of the sixties - like you don't remember them. Are you getting off yet?
Crackernomics    by Andy Perry
Price: Free! 43030 words. Published on May 4, 2013. .

Think you know what caused the Credit Crunch? It wasn't greedy bankers. It wasn't computer geeks. It wasn't the Rothschilds and it wasn't the Illuminati. It wasn't Socialists or Communists or Agenda 21 or the Chinese or the United Nations. But it wasn't an accident. It was Crackernomics and the Democratisation of Money. Find out why.
Sliding Home Feet First    by Diann Russell
Price: $9.99 USD. 95930 words. Published on May 14, 2013. .

Patrick O’Donnell, a young man growing up in Chicago during the 1960s, finds himself struggling to reconcile his traditional upbringing with a culture that rejected the past. He discovers a balance between the chaotic world in which he lives and the family whom he loves. It's baseball, rock ‘n roll, free love, and a grandmother who takes up boxing at the Y. It is a story of an American family.