communal living

"The Haven, a commune in the mountains, seems harmless--until Mailee's best friend Cara decides she's going to stay there forever"--OCLC.

Shows how six people's lives intersect in Southern California--a streaker running through traffic, a young man recently released from juvie, a married lawyer, a drifter searching for a murderer, a young tennis player trying to escape a mistake, and a young man running away from his father's commune. Jumps back and forth through decades to explore the rootless meaning of SoCal lives and examine how past events affect the future.

"When Julie visits Gold Moon Ranch, a farming commune in California's gold rush country, the back-to-the-land lifestyle seems idyllic at first. But peculiar problems keep cropping up, almost as if someone was trying to shut down the commune! Then, on a secret trip to an abandoned gold mine, Julie stumbles on a mysterious message that hints at long-lost treasure. Julie is desperate to find it, before danger closes in on Gold Moon Ranch."--Back cover.

"The Haven, a commune in the mountains, seems harmless--until Mailee's best friend Cara decides she's going to stay there forever"--OCLC.

"When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's fresh out of high school, pregnant with her art teacher's baby, and totally on her own. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or relatives to help, she's left searching. Dr. Grind, an awkwardly charming child psychologist, has spent his life studying family, even after tragedy struck his own. Now, with the help of an eccentric billionaire, he has the chance to create a 'perfect little world'--to study what would happen when ten children are raised collectively, without knowing who their biological parents are. He calls it the Infinite Family Project and he wants Izzy and her son to join. This attempt at a utopian ideal starts off promising, but soon the gentle equilibrium among the families disintegrates: unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester; the project's funding becomes tenuous; and Izzy's growing feelings for Dr. Grind make her question her participation in this strange experiment in the first place"--Dust jacket.

Opens with a horrifying scene of mob violence then chronicles its genesis in a small all-black town in rural Oklahoma.

One of Hawthorne's great romances, The Blithedale Romance draws upon the author's experiences at Brook Farm, the short-lived utopian community where Hawthorne spent much of 1841. Blithedale ("Happy Valley"), another would-be modern Arcadia, is the stage for Hawthorne's grimly comic tragedy (Henry James famously called the novel "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous fictions"). In his introduction, Robert S. Levine considers biographical and historical contexts and offers a fresh appreciation of the novel's ironic first-person narrator. The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text to The Blithedale Romance in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.

"Starbird has spent the first sixteen years of her life on a commune in the woods of Washington State. When she gets her Calling to become a waitress at the farm's satellite restaurant in Seattle, it means leaving behind the only place she's ever known and entering the World Outside"--Provided by publisher.

A group of people living in an experimental community face the limitations of human nature.