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141) The ones who hit the hardest: the Steelers, the Cowboys, the '70s, and the fight for America's soul
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Traces the decade when the Pittsburgh Steelers rose from a lackluster franchise to four-time Super Bowl champions, citing the team's efforts to revitalize its economically challenged city while assessing key contributors and the rivalry with the Dallas Cowboys.
143) The holdovers: DVD
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
144) The sensational 70s
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This set documents events that shaped the Seventies- everything from the end of the Vietnam War, to the birth of disco, to the celebration of our nation's Bicentennial.
145) '74 and sunny
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A.J. Benza's distinctive blend of wit, dry humor, and genuine tenderness shines through this candid, compelling memoir about the summer of 1974 when his shy, effeminate cousin comes to live with A.J.'s family, which is dominated by his short-tempered, outspoken, hyper-masculine father. At its core, A.J.'s story is about learning that "being exactly who you were meant to be is the only thing that matters." Through anecdotes of fishing with his father,...
146) Jesus revolution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1970s, tells the story of a young man, whose life was transformed by charismatic hippie preacher Lonnie Frisbee and Southern California pastor Chuck Smith, founders of the Calvary Chapel movement.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time, and sports moved from the margins to the mainstream of American culture. Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in THE BIG TIME, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s. So many things happened during the decade--the move of sports into prime-time television, the beginning...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Just outside the mesmerizing glint of the disco ball, the Seventies seem like a time of madness: war raged in Southeast Asia, America's president was crooked, Olympic athletes were slain, cult members drank poisoned punch, and the Son of Sam stalked the night. It was, in retrospect, a terrifying time only slightly ameliorated by the distractions of a decadent nightlife culture and over-the-top pop icons."--Container.
150) Jesus' son
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen (2.35:first) version.
Language
English
Description
A rumpled, hapless young man in his twenties, FH bounces through his days with his dreams and hallucinations blurring and merging into reality. The shaky center of his universe is his beloved on-again, off-again, girlfriend Michelle.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It's 1988 and Ethan has been hired for his strangest case yet: finding the secrets of a Los Angeles real estate mogul. How hard could that be, right? Only what starts as a deep dive into the life of a stranger will soon take a deadly turn, and find Ethan risking everything that still matters to him.
152) Abbott: 1973
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A war for the soul of Detroit. Elena Abbott is one of Detroit's toughest reporters--and after defeating the dark forces that murdered her husband, she's focused on the most important election in the city's history. But when someone uses dark magic to sabotage the campaign of the prospective first Black mayor of Detroit, it becomes clear to Abbott that the supernatural conspiracy in her city is even greater than she ever imagined. Now Abbott must...
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