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2) Countdown
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear..."--Dust jacket flap.
3) Fallout
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an unthinkable nuclear attack occurs in an alternate-reality 1962, Scott is forced into his father's bomb shelter with his family and neighbors, where they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
5) Revolution
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Sunny can't help but feel like her house is being invaded, too. She has a new stepmother, a new brother, and a new sister crowding her life. Things get even trickier when Sunny and her brother are caught sneaking into the local swimming pool -- where they bump into a mystery boy whose life is going to become tangled up in theirs.
Author
Series
A Mentor book volume ME2514
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1969]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
224 p. illus., facsim. (on lining papers), ports. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert Kennedy recounts the details of his brother's direction of the American response to the Cuban missile crisis.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Premiering on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missle Crisis, this film focuses on three central figures in the crisis -- President John F. Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban leader Fidel Castro. On October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases on the island of Cuba, 90 miles off the shores of Florida. The events of the next, tension-filled 13 days, known as...
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