"Lenny Ovitz has plenty of secrets, and his wife, Paulina, has become a liability. His life would be so much better without her in it. It's the mid-'60s in Toronto, and Lenny works for a ruthless gangster whose travel agency is a front for a collections racket in the Kensington Market area. Lenny's days are spent with his partner, Gabe, terrorizing the locals into paying protection on their shops and their lives. On the side, Lenny and Gabe co-own...

Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights to the Left Bank of Paris to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice.

A special anniversary edition of Joyce Maynard's groundbreaking memoir about coming of age in one of America's most defining decades. Joyce Maynard was eighteen years old when her 1972 New York Times Magazine cover story catapulted her to national prominence. Published one year later, Looking Back is her remarkable follow-up: part memoir, part cultural history, and part social critique. She wrote about diving under her desk for air-raid practice during...

"The protagonists of these skillful and inventive stories have traveled various paths-from Japan to Brazil, L.A. to Gardena, San Francisco to Tokyo-but along the way, they have all become archivists, whether they know it or not. They examine the contents of deceased relatives' freezers, tape-record high-school locker-room chatter, cart the contents of a household cross-country, or collect a community's gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants....

In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken but her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime.

A comprehensive portrait of the 1960s that includes coverage of the era's counterculture movement, anti-war protests, and civil rights demonstrations.

What if the most important decision of your life was not yours to make? This vivid and powerful novel follows two women whose paths intersect at a maternity home in the "Baby Scoop Era." In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and waitress in a Chicago diner. She doesn't know Margie, sixteen and bookish, who lives a sheltered suburban life, but they soon meet when unplanned pregnancies send them to the Holy Family Home for the Wayward...

Readers will be instantly attached to Barbie in the 1960s. Barbie took the world by storm during her first decade on the market. Text on popular and inspiring Barbies of the '60s is paired with a brief history of the decade's culture and womens' changing roles. QR codes and bright, exciting photographs keep readers engaged through the whole book.

Portrays a young woman’s struggle to break free from her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution.