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1) Firefly Lane
Author
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
"In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all--beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be, but they make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's November 1991. Nirvana's in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it's guilt and grief over the shocking...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's 1990. In Dalton, Maine, life goes on. Rose goes to work at the diner every day, her bruises hidden from both the customers and her two young boys. At a table she waits, Dr. Richard Haskell looks back on the one choice that's charted his entire life, before his thoughts wander back to his wife, Trudy, and her best friend. Trudy and Bev have been friends for longer than they can count, and something more than lovers to each other for some time...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
1980, New York City. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit. But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications, Angel must...
5) Rewind
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As far as twelve-year-old McKinley O'Dair is concerned, the best thing about living in Gap Bend, Pennsylvania, is the Time Hop--the giant party the town throws every June to celebrate a single year in history. That one day is enough to make the few things that aren't so fantastic about McKinley's life--like her crabby homeroom teacher or her super-scheduled father--worth suffering through. And when McKinley learns that this year's theme is 1993,...
6) Throwback
Author
Publisher
Zando Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 355 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Priscilla is first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader who expects Sam to want the same all-American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clicȟd high school aspirations. After a huge blowup, Sam is desperate to get away from Priscilla, but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back. To her shock, Sam lands in the '90s...alongside a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now, Sam has to deal with outdated...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Framed by the oil shale bust and the real estate boom, by protests against Reagan and against the Gulf War, The Optimistic Decade is the story about an utopian camp and its charismatic leader, and the lives of five unforgettable characters. It is a sweeping saga of idealism, love, class, and a piece of land that changes everyone who lives on it.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 124 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1990's, the film revolves around Carol Danvers, a crack air force pilot. Though trials and tribulations she becomes one of the galaxy's mightiest heroes and joins an elite outer space military team known as Starforce. Her membership in the Kree military team puts her in danger when Earth becomes hopelessly stuck in battle between two other alien worlds, forcing Danvers to take on the role of Captain Marvel and use her new powers for the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Manhattan's East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country. One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his band's biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jack's prized bass, presumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. Jack's search for his buddy uncovers...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the '90s, Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on an action-packed, globetrotting adventure as the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorons join the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth. Noah, a sharp young guy from Brooklyn, and Elena, an ambitious, talented artifact researcher, are swept up in the conflict as Optimus Prime and the Autobots face a terrifying new nemesis bent on their destruction name Scourge.
"These Hasbro action...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 179 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sex. Money. Power. Drugs. Brace yourself for an outrageous true story from legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Jordan Belfort, a young stockbroker, is hungry for fame and glory in New York City, where corruption is king and more is never enough.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993. Hannah, who comes from a strict Korean home, meets Angel, a free and beautiful boy, at a quinceañera: Beyond flushed, sweating bodies pushed, pushing like cattle below black & buzzing speakers, under a torn pink streamer loose as a tendril of hair--lush-- his eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blush floods her. Hannah sucks...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Counterpoint edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After she shames herself on local television, Johanna Morgan reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde--a fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero--until two years later, while eviscerating bands as a music critic, she realizes she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (506 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the mid-1990s, and inspired by a true story, this show stars Hudson Yang as eleven-year-old, hip-hop-loving Eddie Huang, who, with his family, is adjusting to a new life in suburban Orlando. Faced with new schools, new friends, new neighbors and new traditions the Huangs stay true to their family values as they pursue the American Dream.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (528 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the mid-1990s, and inspired by a true story, this show stars Hudson Yang as eleven-year-old, hip-hop-loving Eddie Huang, who, with his family, is adjusting to a new life in suburban Orlando. Faced with new schools, new friends, new neighbors, and new traditions, the Huangs stay true to their family values as they pursue the American Dream.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (418 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the mid-1990s, and inspired by a true story, this show stars Hudson Yang as eleven-year-old, hip-hop-loving Eddie Huang, who, with his family, is adjusting to a new life in suburban Orlando. Faced with new schools, new friends, new neighbors and new traditions the Huangs stay true to their family values as they pursue the American Dream.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (286 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join TV's funniest new family and flashback to the '90s. Twelve-year-old hip-hop enthusiast Eddie Huang and his family make their way from D.C.'s Chinatown to Orlando where his dad, Louis tries to make his new steakhouse a success. His mom, Jessica aims to understand the culture clash and dominate suburbia. While his brothers fit right in, Eddie still tries to get a seat at the table, any table, in the school cafeteria.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (323 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the '90s, hip-hop loving teenager Eddie Huang and his family have lived in Orlando for a few years now and have assimilated nicely into the suburban American lifestyle. Cultural differences still present everyday challenges, but close friends, neighbors, and business acquaintances are there to help them navigate the complexities of raising a family of future millennials.
20) Arroyo: a novel
Author
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lightly comedic, historical novel, Arroyo tells the parallel stories of a solar-dreaming young man and his semi-clairvoyant, impish mutt during two distinct epochs in Pasadena, California: 1913, as the landmark Colorado Street Bridge suffers a lethal collapse during construction but opens in the fanfare of the automobile age anyway; and 1993, as the refurbished bridge commemorates its 80th birthday in a marquee suburb-one that is perhaps not quite...