02793cam a2200397 i 4500 623801250 TxAuBib 20190703120000.0 190211s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2019013260 9780316454162 large print; hardcover 0316454168 large print; hardcover (OCoLC)1090890659 MLSOD MLSOD eng eng rda rda rda MLSOD rda PX0 MLSOD IUK OCLCO OQX BDX TCH GZD TxAuBib PX0 IUK OCLCO OQX BDX TCH GZD TxAuBib rda Hilderbrand, Elin, author. Summer of '69 : By Elin Hilderbrand. Summer of sixty-nine. Summer of 1969. Large print edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. 645 pages (large print) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first 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. Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, each of them hiding 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. 20190703. Family vacations Fiction. Social conflict Fiction. Families Massachusetts Nantucket Island Fiction. Civil rights movements Fiction. Siblings Juvenile fiction. United States History 1961-1969 Fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. TXKPL