1960s

Fiction

Modesty Blaise: Clever, Cunning, Daring and Kick-Ass

Modesty Blaise was first introduced as a comic-strip in the middle of the 1960s by author Peter O'Donnell. Not only was she beautiful, she was clever, cunning, daring and she knew how to kick ass. For me, she was the heroine I wanted to be. For those who don't know…

BookTribFebruary 23, 2018

Fiction

‘Yonkers Yonkers!’: Patricia Vaccarino’s New Book Explores Racial Tensions and Friendship during Woodstock

Author and PR specialist Patricia Vaccarino's new book, YONKERS Yonkers! A Story of Race and Redemption, is an enriching and beautiful narrative of friendship, breaking social boundaries, and music. In the time of Woodstock, the Vietnam War, the Rolling Stones and more, YONKERS Yonkers! looks at social and racial conventions of a tumultuous and…

BookTribJanuary 24, 2018

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Mike Bond Launches “Freedom,” Book Two of His Epic Historical Saga, a “1960s Coming-of-Age Masterpiece”

Celebrated novelist Mike Bond has been called one of the 21st Century’s most exciting authors. His recently released historical epic, America, is the first of a seven-book series that relives our last 70 years and our nation’s most profound upheavals since the Civil War. Now, in the tumultuous last years…

BookTribDecember 13, 2021

Fiction

Atmospheric and Lyrical Coming-of-Age Novel From Pulitzer Winner Jane Smiley

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley gives readers a fully atmospheric novel brimming with grit and glitter. In Lucky, we watch one woman’s rise to fame and the journey across changing times to find herself. Folk Musician's Rise to Fame When we meet Jodie Rattler, she is six years old and…

Kelsey HallApril 23, 2024

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Ellen Barker Takes Us to See a Community Divided by History and Prejudice in “East of Troost”

It’s the story of countless American cities. A harsh line severs the community, cutting Black residents off from more affluent white neighborhoods. Those who do venture across are at risk of being met with threats, violence and displacement. Whether the line was established during the segregation era or was quietly…

BookTribSeptember 6, 2022

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“Queen of Kenosha:” A Guitar-Playing, Nazi-Busting Heroine

October is Graphic Novel Writing Month, and to celebrate, why not try reading a gem from this genre? Queen of Kenosha, (Animal Media Group) written by Howard Shapiro and illustrated by Erica Chan, is a vibrant tale featuring a heroine who is passionate about the work she does, both in the…

Rebecca ProulxOctober 3, 2018

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Find Out How Deep Police Corruption Runs in “Black, White and Gray All Over”

Compton, California, is a city known for gangs, drugs, gangsta rap and, at one time a murder rate 10 times the national average. Black White and Gray All Over, a memoir by Frederick Douglass Reynolds and subtitled “A Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement” is an insider’s view…

Joanna PoncavageApril 21, 2022

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Free Love and a Food Revolution in the U.S. Diet

We’re all just a bunch of easygoing hippies--at least where are stomachs are concerned. Skeptical? Jonathan Kauffman, IACP and James Beard Award-winning food writer, unpacks the impact of this colorful group of people on our current diet in his book Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We…

Rebecca ProulxJanuary 23, 2019

Nonfiction

Gloria Steinem Biopic Will Bring the Icon’s Memoir to Life

Julianne Moore is set to star as Steinem, with director Julie Taymor at the helm. As acclaimed masters in their fields, both women bring as much to the table as the feminist icon herself. Moore had an Oscar-winning turn in Still Alice, the film of Lisa Genova’s novel about early-onset…

Early Bird BooksNovember 21, 2017

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A Murder Mystery Full of Art and Intrigue in 1960s Manhattan

Once upon a time, Thomas Hart Benton was a household name, known widely as America’s foremost Regionalist painter. A prolific chronicler of the nation during the good and bad times of the 1920s through World War II, the Kansas City native studied art in Paris and New York City and…

Claudia KeenanMarch 1, 2021

Fiction

“The Royal Correspondent” Travels Internationally With Lofty Career Goals and Deadly Secrets

It’s an up-from-the-slums journey for one Blaise Hill, a smart, upbeat young woman fresh out of secondary school and ready to plunge whole-heartedly into a life-changing career. Set in two world capitals, Sydney and London, and spanning the years between 1957 and 1962, readers follow the adventures of this intrepid…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 24, 2021

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1960s Historical Fiction Holds Up a Mirror to Current Reproductive Health Challenges

“The words ‘knocked up’ … signified disaster on a mythic scale, the termination of respectability, the cancellation of any claim to future success and happiness, an irreversible and public shaming.” While that phrase still carries a certain amount of stigma in 2022, particularly for the young and unwed, it doesn’t…

Chelsea CicconeJanuary 6, 2022

Fiction

Diana Grillo Stories Tackle Writhing Family Dynamics

The challenge of a good short story is the ability to convey complicated ideas and feelings to the reader in a limited amount of pages. Diana Grillo, author of An Accidental Murder and Other Stories, manages to easily draw sympathy from readers for her struggling characters, diving straight into the…

Rebecca ProulxMarch 26, 2019

Fiction

Coming of Age with a Father Stuck in the Past

What is it like for a girl to grow up with a dad who is old enough to be her grandfather? Lissa Power is finding out first-hand in the mid-twentieth century. She’s close with her father from the beginning, but when she loses her mother at a young age, she…

Paige VigliaroloJune 7, 2019

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Eugenics Program Masquerades as Health Clinic in Eye-Opening Historical Novel

Summer of No Rain is a fictional retelling of a disturbing true story. In Alabama in 1973, the sisters Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf were forcibly sterilized as minors in a federally funded, systemically racist and ableist program disguised as “experimental birth control.” Laura Hunter has reimagined this haunting…

BookTribOctober 5, 2022

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Mike Shaw Reveals What Inspired “The Musician” Within Him

“True, endearing, joyful, and at times disheartening, The Musician is an unvarnished look at what most musicians encounter when they choose to follow their dreams,” says Huffington Post’s Ralph Miriello. Becoming an accomplished musician and receiving recognition for it eventually proves the driving force in Tom Cliffe’s life. He will…

Judy MorenoOctober 4, 2021

Modesty Blaise: Clever, Cunning, Daring and Kick-Ass

‘Yonkers Yonkers!’: Patricia Vaccarino’s New Book Explores Racial Tensions and Friendship during Woodstock

Mike Bond Launches “Freedom,” Book Two of His Epic Historical Saga, a “1960s Coming-of-Age Masterpiece”

Ellen Barker Takes Us to See a Community Divided by History and Prejudice in “East of Troost”

“Queen of Kenosha:” A Guitar-Playing, Nazi-Busting Heroine

Find Out How Deep Police Corruption Runs in “Black, White and Gray All Over”

Free Love and a Food Revolution in the U.S. Diet

Gloria Steinem Biopic Will Bring the Icon’s Memoir to Life

A Murder Mystery Full of Art and Intrigue in 1960s Manhattan

“The Royal Correspondent” Travels Internationally With Lofty Career Goals and Deadly Secrets

1960s Historical Fiction Holds Up a Mirror to Current Reproductive Health Challenges

Diana Grillo Stories Tackle Writhing Family Dynamics

Coming of Age with a Father Stuck in the Past

Eugenics Program Masquerades as Health Clinic in Eye-Opening Historical Novel

Mike Shaw Reveals What Inspired “The Musician” Within Him

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