1970's Babies (Books Set in the Decade You Were Born - 1970s) - Summer Adventure 2025Like this list

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  June 1 - August 1, 2025 Put your Summer together at AC Library! Activities, reading, and more! Build your own Summer Adventure…

• The God of the Woods

  Moore, Liz, 1983-

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  Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bright Young Women

  Knoll, Jessica,

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  From the best-selling author of Luckiest Girl Alive comes another shocking thriller inspired by the real-life sorority and target of America's first celebrity serial killer, based on Ted Bundy's crimes.

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

  McBride, James, 1957-

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  When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters, living on the margins of white, Christian America closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All You Have to Do Is Call

  Maher, Kerri,

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  A novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought for our right to choose, from the USA Today best-selling author of The Paris Bookseller.

• A Happier Life

  Harvey, Kristy Woodson,

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  A young woman discovers the family she has always longed for when she spends a life-changing summer in North Carolina.

• Mary Jane

  a Novel

  Blau, Jessica Anya,

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  Taking a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor, straight-laced Mary Jane is introduced to a world of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll, which helps her figure out what she really wants out of life, and what kind of person she’s going…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Carrie

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  A repressed teenager uses her telekinetic powers to avenge the cruel jokes of her classmates.

• One Last Stop

  McQuiston, Casey,

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  Cynical August starts to believe in the impossible when she meets Jane on the subway, a mysterious punk rocker she forms a crush on, who is literally displaced in time from the 1970s and is trying to find her way back.

• The Children on the Hill

  McMahon, Jennifer, 1968-

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  When Lizzy Shelley, the host of the popular podcast Monsters Among Us, arrives in Vermont, where a kidnapping and monster sighting has sent the town into a frenzy, she is determined to hunt it down because it could be her very own sister.

• The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

  a Novel

  Walton, Dawnie,

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  Accepting a contract from a fledgling record company, a talented music artist in early 1970s New York endures racist responses to her activism, before a reunion interview decades later reveals explosive secrets.

• Damnation Spring

  a Novel

  Davidson, Ash,

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  A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Love the Nightlife

  Koller Croft, Rachel,

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  Locked in a toxic female friendship, two vampires careen toward catastrophe, in a novel set amidst London's glittering disco scene.

• Take My Hand

  Perkins-Valdez, Dolen,

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  In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Townsend, a young Black nurse working for the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, grapples with her role when she takes two young girls into her heart and the unthinkable happens, and nothing will ever be the same…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything I Never Told You

  Ng, Celeste,

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  Explores the fallout of a favorite daughter's shattering death on a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio.

• The Book of Cold Cases

  St. James, Simone,

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  When Shea Collins, who runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases, gets a chance to interview Beth Greer, an infamous woman acquitted of two cold case slayings, she senses something isn't right and wonders if she is in the presence of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Velvet Was the Night

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  In 1970s Mexico City, Maite, a secretary with a penchant for romance novels, searches for her missing neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, which leads her to an eccentric gangster who longs to escape his own life, and together, they set out…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crossroads

  Franzen, Jonathan,

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  Crossroads is the first novel in Jonathan Franzen's A Key to All Mythologies. The trilogy tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Alone

  Hannah, Kristin,

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  When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.

• Daisy Jones & the Six

  a Novel

  Reid, Taylor Jenkins,

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  When singer Daisy Jones meets Billy Dunne of the band The Six, the two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame.