communal living

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram(a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet), "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.

Cassy is forced to stay with her mother in a squatter's settlement of artists, where she joins the group in producing an educational program about wolves and inadvertently learns that her missing father is a notorious terrorist.

In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.

America's involvement in Vietnam adds to the seemingly constant arguing in the Vivante family, whose cousins are among a group of people who have dropped out to live in a commune in Arizona.

Story of a preteen girl named Saskia growing up in a commune in rural New York who after reading inspiring tales of adventure decides on incorporating some excitement into her own life by developing a new friendship and reuniting with her estranged father.

Discusses the philosophy, purpose, and organization of four communal societies-- the Shakers, the Rappites, the Perfectionists of the Oneida Community, and the Society of Brothers.

The language-loving inhabitants of a South Carolina island interpret the falling of the letter "Z" from a beloved monument as a divine warning not to use the letter any longer. But catastrophe is imminent when the other letters in the monument--which contains the entire alphabet--begin falling one by one.

When her grandmother takes fourteen-year-old Agnes, her younger brother, and best friend Honey and escapes Mount Blessing, a Connecticut religious commune, Agnes clings to the faith she loves while Honey looks toward a future free of control, cruelty, and preferential treatment.

The rise and fall of Arcadia, a hippy commune, and its lasting impact on Bit, a gifted young man.

Seventeen-year-old Charlie Selkirk's run of bad luck ends when he signs on as a gofer for award-winning photographer Tallasee Tynan and becomes involved in the search for a missing boy last seen at a local hippie commune-- a quest that is strangely linked to Charlie's own mother.