At long last, manga titan Shirato Sanpei’s groundbreaking epic makes its way into English. Celebrated as a watershed of both the Japanese counterculture and dramatic, longform storytelling in manga, The Legend of Kamui serves up clashing swords and class struggle to create a timeless political allegory set in feudal Japan. This ten-volume series is a must-have for fans of samurai and ninja manga and anime, and of other giants of postwar manga like Tezuka Osamu, Mizuki Shigeru, Tsuge Yoshiharu, and Lone Wolf and Cub’s Kojima Goseki.
From an award-winning journalist comes the riveting odyssey of seven Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1960s—a chronicle of a team, a game, and a nation in transition during one of the most exciting and unsettled decades in history.
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...
When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women - black and white, mothers and daughters - view one another.
Elizabeth Zott becomes a beloved cooking show host in 1960s Southern California after being fired as a chemist four years earlier. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.
3. Vehicle - A. 1960s Camper Van
The third decision on your road trip is what vehicle are you traveling in! You'll have three road trip vehicles to choose from, and the first choice you can make is traveling in a 1960s Camper Van!
Complete the 1960s Camper Van choice by reading any title that was published in OR is set in the 1960s, in any capacity, at any point in the story and recording the title on your Road Trip tracking sheet.
You can use any title that you’d like, but here are some suggestions to complete the 1960s Camper Van choice.
The Women by Kristin Hannah (Print) (Libby Audio)
11-22-63 by Stephen King (I-Share Print) (Libby Audio)
Nine Days: the race to save Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and win the 1960 election by Stephen Kendrick (I-Share Print)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (I-Share Print) (Libby Audio)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Print) (Libby eBook) (Libby Audio)
Dylan Goes Electric by Elijah Wald (Print)
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (Print)
The Cat who could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun (I-Share Print)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Print) (Libby Audio)
Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand (I-Share Print)
The Greatest Beer Run Ever by John Donohue (I-Share Print)
Example by Example (I-Share Print) (I-Share Audio) (Libby eBook) (Libby Audio)