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Leningrad, one summer in the early '80s. The underground rock scene is boiling. Among the followers of Zeppelin and Bowie, young Viktor Tsoi is eager to make a name for himself. An encounter with his idol Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha will change his life forever. Together they will build Viktor's legend and make him immortal.
4) The eighties
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Traces the events, trends, and important people of the 1980s, including science, technology, fashion, music, art, architecture, sports, entertainment, and news.
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"Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir Brat: An '80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment...
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"A poignant and hilarious oral history of a (fictitious) musical phenomenon. Celebrated music critic and cultural historian David Hajdu unravels the mystery of a one of-a-kind artist, a pianist with a rare neurological condition that enables her to make music that is nothing less than pure, unmediated emotional expression. Her name is Adrianne Geffel, praised as 'the Geyser of Grand Street' and the 'Queen of Bleak Chic'. Yet despite her renown, she...
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An extraordinary story, inspired by real events, of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark on a daring air race across the Pacific, perfect for fans of Great Circle and Her Last Flight.
1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race——a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400-mile Pacific crossing from the West...
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"Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories...
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Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 4
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"The fourth book in the best-selling Reckless series is here! Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips bring us yet another original graphic novel starring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless. Except this time it's the winter of 1989 and Ethan is out of town, so Anna must tackle this job on her own. When a movie scream queen asks her to prove the mansion she's renovating isn't haunted, Anna will stumble into the decades-long mystery...
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Library of America volume 328
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"This volume brings together three novels by one of the most spellbinding writers of his generation, suspenseful masterworks that brilliantly capture the desperate underside of American life in the 1970s and 80s." -- $c Provided by publisher.
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Deadly class volume 1
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"The freshman class has gotten a bloody welcome to Kings Dominion, as the newly empowered student council holds brutal sway over the hallways and dorms. If you're not part of the group you're part of the body count. Meanwhile, Saya's own mysterious past comes back to haunt her, betrayal and subterfuge ... around every corner. And far from the bloodshed are Marcus and Maria, rare survivors of the deadliest school on earth, harboring dark desires of...
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Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 3
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"Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, winners of the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Novel, are back with their third book in their red-hot RECKLESS series...It's 1988 and Ethan has been hired for his strangest case yet: digging up the dirty secrets of a Los Angeles real estate mogul. But what starts as a slow dive into the life of a stranger will soon take a deadly turn, and find Ethan risking everything that still matters...
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In 1980, freshman Jake and his new rowdy teammates must navigate their way between girls, parties and baseball, all in the last weekend before college begins. From **Oscar-nominated** filmmaker Richard Linklater comes the movie that proves good times never get old. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival.** *"Another love letter to the magic hour of adolescence from director Richard Linklater." - Rafer Guzman, **Newsday***
15) 8-bit Christmas
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In 1980s Chicago, a 10-year-old sets out on a quest to get the Christmas gift of his generation: the latest and greatest video game system.
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Stranger Things volume 1
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"It's January 1985 -- the Hawkins crew have survived their battle with the mind flayer, but Will and Joyce are still reeling from the recent death of Bob Newby. After he and Mr. Clarke discover a mysterious map Bob left in a box of old nerdy memorabilia, Will rallies the crew to investigate -- but with a blizzard coming, they're afraid to follow. When Mike, Dustin, and Lucas learn that Will has taken off into the freezing wilds alone they rush to...
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Stranger things graphic novels volume 1
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"When Will Byers finds himself in the Upside Down, an impossible dark parody of his own world, he's understandably frightened. But that's nothing compared with the fear that takes hold when he realizes what's in that world with him!"
18) One word kill
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Impossible times volume 1
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"In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he's dying. And it isn't even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange--yet curiously familiar--man is...
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"The third season brings strange power fluctuations that trigger Will's awareness of something otherworldly. Eleven and Max sense something is off about the town's residents, and despite having closed the portal to the Upside Down, fears that they are all still in danger from it." --Wikipedia.
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Wanting to be a dancer while growing up in a large military family made Christine Barker somewhat of a black sheep, but she followed her dreams to New York City, where--in a moment of almost unbelievable good fortune--she was chosen for the London cast of A Chorus Line. London, and then New York, in the '70s and '80s opened up Christine's world. The creativity, culture, and nightlife were intoxicating, enough so to compel her older brother Laughlin...
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