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Author Hilderbrand, Elin, author.

Title Summer of '69 / by Elin Hilderbrand.

Publication Info. New York, NY : LIttle Brown Publishing, 2020.
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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  PPB HILDERBRAND    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  HILDERBRAND, ELIN    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  PB H    Check Shelf
Edition First Little, Brown and Company mass market edition.
Description 455 pages ; 19 cm
Summary Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the '60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand's #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha's Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. And thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, while each of them hides a troubling secret. As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country. In her first historical novel, rich with the details of an era that shaped both a nation and an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again earns her title as queen of the summer novel.
Subject Historical fiction.
Civil rights -- historical fiction.
Fiction.
Family vacations -- Fiction.
Social conflict -- Fiction.
Families -- Massachusetts -- Nantucket Island -- Fiction.
Civil rights movements -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- 1961-1969 -- Fiction.
Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Brothers and sisters. (OCoLC)fst00839671
Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00862627
Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Family vacations. (OCoLC)fst01745893
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst00923709
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst00957973
Social conflict. (OCoLC)fst01122378
Massachusetts -- Nantucket Island. (OCoLC)fst01241286
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1961-1969
Genre/Form Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Added Title Summer of sixty-nine
Summer of 1969
ISBN 0316463248 (paperback)
9780316463249 (paperback)
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