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a James Bond novel

Shroud of sorrow

The day after John F. Kennedy's assassination, an alien force known as the Shroud begins feeding on the grief and sorrow of humanity. The Doctor arrives to investigate, but realizes he may have to dig through his own sad past in order to find a solution.

Two trains running

1969
2007
Paints a portrait of the African-American experience in the changing decade of the 1960s through the lives of restaurant owner Memphis Lee and the people who live in his Pittsburgh block, which is scheduled for demolition.

The stones of summer

2004
Dawes Williams struggles to understand the larger mysteries of life, his family, and literature in his small Iowa town during the 1960s.

Shaky ground

the '60s and its aftershocks
2002
Examines the lasting effects of the political, social, economic, artistic, and cultural events which defined the 1960s.

Fair Play

2005
Meg is determined to keep St. Catherine's Spring Fair from closing due to lack of attendance, but the fair faces steep competition from a Bob Dylan concert.

Make love, not war

the sexual revolution, an unfettered history
2000
Looks at sexual attitudes in the 1960s, the feminist movement, sex research, pornography, the gay pride movement, abortion, and sexual behavior.

The sixties

the years that shaped a generation
2005
Traces the events of the 1960s, from the Vietnam War to the struggle for racial equality to the birth of the counter-culture explosion. Looks at how this decade of change transformed the United States. Includes interviews with prominent figures of the era, including: Barbara Ehrenreich, Tom Hayden, Henry Kissinger, Normal Mailer, Robert McNamara, Bobby Seale, and others.

The 1960s

2003
Examines the events of the 1960s in the United States through firsthand accounts from letters, speeches, and newspaper articles, and includes introductory essays, a chronology, and excerpts from significant documents of the decade.

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