Audiobook
Summer of '69 / Elin Hilderbrand.
Follow New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand back in time and join a Nantucket family as they experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a 1960s summer. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century! It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket: but this year Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, a nursing student, is caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests, a passion which takes her to Martha's Vineyard with her best friend, Mary Jo Kopechne.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781549119378
- Physical Description: 12 sound discs (approximately 13.5 hours) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 inches
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Hachette Audio, ℗2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A novel"--Container. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Erin Bennett. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Family vacations > Fiction. Social conflict > Fiction. Nineteen sixty-nine, A.D. > Fiction. Families > Massachusetts > Nantucket Island > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Audiobooks. |
Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Creston Public Library | AUDIO FIC HIL (Text)
Acquisition Type: New |
35140100052938 | Fiction Audiobooks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Tumbler Ridge Public Library | AB HILDE 12 discs (Text) | TRL26783 | Audiobooks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| 100 Mile House Branch | HIL (Text) | 33923006126076 | Book on Compact Disc | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Williams Lake Branch | HIL (Text) | 33923006126084 | Book on Compact Disc | Volume hold | Available | - |
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A pregnant eldest sibling, a middle-sister civil rights activist, an infantry soldier brother deployed to Vietnam and a lonely 13-year-old youngest child find their lives upended by troubling family secrets. Simultaneous. - Grand Central PubFour siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the '60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand's #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel.Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha's Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. And thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, while each of them hides a troubling secret.As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country. In her first historical novel, rich with the details of an era that shaped both a nation and an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again earns her title as queen of the summer novel.
