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    Little Known Tales in San Francisco History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 185min
    San Francisco grew from a tiny burg of 1,000 persons in 1848 to its present-day population of 825,863. The city was founded in 1776 when Spain built a fort at the site of Golden Gate Park. After World War II, San Francisco became a magnet for America's counter-culture. Hippies flocked to Haight-Ashbury in 1960 and peaked out with the Summer of Love in 1967. San Francisco's China Town is the oldest and largest in North America. The city's famous cable cars carry riders up and down the steep inclines and to Fisherman's Wharf below. People watch as the fishermen bring in their daily catch each day at the piers of Fisherman's Wharf. There's little that can't be found in San Francisco. The city's ethnic makeup is diverse. It's made up of whites, Asians, Afro-Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics. San Francisco has developed an international character that began with its founding and continues today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neil Reeves. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/079844/bk_acx0_079844_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Better to Have Loved , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 512min
    Faith, free love, and betrayal.In 1969, the Summer of Love, America is changing, full of cultural revolution and new freedoms. As Julie Jensen escapes the hide-bound world of her midwestern family, she embarks on an adventure far from home. Julie leaves a life in shambles to follow her dreams of art and travel. From a charming town in southern England, into the decadent realm of Haight-Ashbury, and the exotic Barcelona coast, she finds love. But when disaster strikes, she must make a choice between family duty and her own needs. A phone call in the dead of night might change her life forever.Will everyone she loses be worth the love she finds?Filled with the freedom of the 1960s, Better to Have Loved is a spell-binding novel based on a true stories of love found and love lost, and one woman’s discovery of what matters to her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christy Nicholas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219478/bk_acx0_219478_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 412min
    Audie Award Nominee, Short Stories/Collections, 2013 Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic essays, including the title piece, which will transport the listener back to a unique time and place: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood’s heyday as a countercultural center. This is Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room. Taking its title from W.B. Yeats’ poem "The Second Coming", the essays in Slouching Towards Bethlehem all reflect, in one way or another, that "the center cannot hold." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Diane Keaton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004402/bk_adbl_004402_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dancing with the Dead: My Good Old Days with the Grateful Dead & the San Francisco Music Scene 1964-1974 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 382min
    Photographer and Grateful Dead insider Rosie McGee narrates her memoir, telling dozens of previously-untold stories of living, traveling and working with the Dead during their first decade as a band. Not just for Deadheads or baby boomers - this audiobook is for anyone seeking a woman's intimate account of the San Francisco rock music community in the Sixties, rare in a field of such books most often written by men. Included are firsthand stories of Autumn Records; The Matrix nightclub; the Acid Tests; Olompali; life in the Haight-Ashbury; the Human Be-In; the Grateful Dead (and the author's) bust at 710 Ashbury; New York, Toronto and Montreal with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane; Monterey Pop; Altamont; the Dead's Europe '72 tour; and encounters with individuals as diverse as Tom Donahue, Phil Spector, Lenny Bruce, Janis Joplin, Owsley Stanley, Timothy Leary, Jesse Colin Young, Julie Christie and many others. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rosie McGee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014774/bk_acx0_014774_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties - Augmented Edition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 614min
    Simply one of the best pieces of rock reportage ever written. (Los Angeles Review of Books)As a pioneering rock journalist for Hit Parader, Vogue, Saturday Review, and other publications, Ellen Sander had a backstage pass to the hottest music scenes of the 1960s. In this feast of juicy anecdotes and keen social commentary, she draws upon her professional and personal experiences to chronicle pop culture's highs and lows during the turbulent decade. Join her for weird and wild road trips with companions ranging from Yippies to the members of Led Zeppelin. Stops along the way include the folk-music clubs of Greenwich Village, Haight-Ashbury in its riotous heyday, and the euphoric festivals at Monterey and Woodstock."It is a memoir, a sourcebook, and a love letter," Sander writes, "a recollection of a time, parenthesized by ambivalence and apathy, a search for the ultimate high, a generation with an irrepressible vision, its art, artists, its audience, and the substance of its statement." This expanded edition of Trips adds "The Plaster Casters of Chicago", Sander's seminal piece on groupie culture, the lengthy "Concerts and Conversations", as well as a new preface and chapter postscripts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dina Pearlman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/057688/bk_adbl_057688_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    1967
    Vor 50 Jahren, da war noch alles gut: Veränderungsversuche wurden von grenzenlosem Optimismus befeuert. Ganz zu schweigen davon, dass 1967 in Popkultur und Musik ein gewaltiges Erbe hinterließ. Es war auch die Zeit, in der unser Wertesystem und Lebensstil neu ausgerichtet und die Grundlagen für die Freizeitgesellschaft und Mediendemokratie gelegt wurden. 1967 war das Jahr, in dem die Welt - trotz der Eskalation des Vietnamkrieges, der Radikalisierung der US-Bürgerrechtsbewegung und den beginnenden Studentenunruhen - im Rhythmus der neuen Popmusik zu vibrieren schien.Was geschah popkulturell in diesem Jahr, in dem sich in Westberlin die Kommune 1 gründete und in dem in den USA zum ersten Mal mehr Alben als Singles verkauft wurden? Wer waren die Protagonisten in diesem Magical Mystery Year, was waren ihre Motive und was die Folgen?Ernst Hofacker macht mit seiner Spurensuche in Haight-Ashbury und Monterey, mit einem Blick auf schwarze Musik, auf Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol und die Pop-Art, auf die Beatles und das epochale Album »Sgt. Pepper«, Jimi Hendrix oder die Bauhaus-Band Monks diese faszinierende Umbruchphase wieder lebendig - mit ihren gewaltigen Träumen und ihrem unerschütterlichen Optimismus, aber auch mit ihren dunklen Seiten.
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    Polk Gulch , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 290min
    From the author of IR Discovery Award finalist Learning to Haight comes the next great punk rock novel. Read by Samm Levine (Freaks and Geeks, Inglourious Basterds), Polk Gulch follows Wally, a neurotic, self-depreciating sales rep in San Francisco, as he somehow wins the heart of Julie, the drummer for a rising punk band. She’s everything he isn’t - cool, brash, confident in her own skin - and Wally never feels he’s able to live up to her public persona. Complicating matters is the fact that Wally is convinced he will die young and has taken weirdly precise considerations to make sure his affairs are taken care of after he is gone - even going as far as to pick out a potential mate for Julie to step in after his death.When tragedy tears them apart, Wally spirals into a tailspin involving booze, strippers, old wedding videos, a Jack Russell named after Joey Ramone and a dramatic rescue on the Golden Gate Bridge. Eventually, it’s his circle of friends that act as his de facto family as he deals with a devastating loss. Above all, Polk Gulch is a startlingly honest story about love and grief that allows readers to enter the brain of someone who is haunted by the impending specter of death." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samm Levine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235851/bk_acx0_235851_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Plague of Secrets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 806min
    The first victim is Dylan Vogler, a charming ex-convict who manages the Bay Beans West coffee shop in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. When his body is found, inspectors discover that his knapsack is filled with high-grade marijuana. It soon becomes clear that San Francisco's A-list flocked to Bay Beans West not only for their caffeine fix. But how much did Maya Townshend - the beautiful socialite niece of the city's mayor, and the absentee owner of the shop - know about what was going on inside her business? And how intimate had she really been with Dylan, her old college friend? As another of Maya's acquaintances falls victim to murder, and as the names of the dead men's celebrity, political, and even law-enforcement customers come to light, tabloid-fueled controversy takes the investigation into the realms of conspiracy and cover-up. Prosecutors close in on Maya, who has a deep secret of her own - a secret she needs to protect at all costs during her very public trial, where not only her future but the entire political landscape of San Francisco hangs in the balance, hostage to an explosive secret that Dismas Hardy is privilegebound to protect. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Colacci. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001735/bk_brll_001735_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    42nd Street, 1979
    42nd Street, 1979 contains Langdon Clay's 1979 photos of a quintessential strip of 42nd Street near New York's Times Square, showing its gritty neon charm before it became the more Disney/Las Vegas hub for theater concoctions that we know today. Clay recalls the drab and dusty mood in New York City at the end of the 1970s: the once-exciting political sea change wrought by the Vietnam War and the Haight Ashbury drug experiment had given way to a sense of apathy, intensified by the aftermath of an oil crisis and the lingering Cold War. The particular stretch of 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues had now shifted from the glorious home of gilded movie palaces of the 1940s to the shadowy site of porn theaters which many saw as the area's ruin. Yet here real-estate moguls saw potential to transform this heart of Manhattan into a mecca of tourism, framed by skyscrapers and shaped by commerce and fast pleasures. "It was with this coming change written on every wall that I sought to record for posterity that famous block between 7th and 8th Avenues," says Clay, "My only regret is that I didn't do the south side of the street."
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    We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard
    Read the works discussed in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. Includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From. Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the "contemporary wasteland" of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in Political Fictions-on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and "compassionate conservatism," among others-show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in Where I Was From Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream.
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