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|  | | 100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the '60s
A nonfiction collection of memoirs from the Sixties. Despite the mushroom cloud of the Cold War hovering over us, kids carried on.
Toni Home Perm, Flexible Flyer Snow Sled, Hula Hoop, Mercurochrome, Fishnet Stockings, Beatles, Mohair, Go-Go Boots, Aluminum Christmas Tree…and, the beat goes on.
While the mushroom cloud of the Cold War hovered over us, my sister and I carried on as kids do regardless of world events. Since the daily minutiae of life provides the magic for memories to MUSHROOM WILDLY—feed your head my nostalgic recollections of growing up during the ‘60s counterculture.
| |  | | Aileen's Guesthouse: A Heartfelt Contemporary
(Charlestown, Rhode Island) - Welcome to AILEEN’S GUESTHOUSE where locals and lodgers have more in common than first meets the eye. And, there's plenty of blame to go around.
(Charlestown, Rhode Island) - Overlooking Horseshoe Point at the end of Sea Lea Avenue in the picturesque village of Quonochontaug, you’ll find Aileen’s Guesthouse. There, a smattering of Quonnie’s locals and lodgers cross paths. Whether through cultivated connection or random encounter, these folks have more in common than first meets the eye.
An incoming tide strews debris of self-recrimination, regret, and remorse for their unintentional culpability in jeopardizing the life of an immediate family member. Whether altering destiny, attributing to demise, or precipitating a debilitat | |  | | Etta's Fishing Ground
Blaze a trail to the point of no return where love and friendship shift ground to withstand the vagaries of life in a rural town.
Just as a whirlwind courtship derailed Momma’s beat-poet dream of hightailing it to North Beach in the Fifties, a badass drifter veers Etta away from seeking haven in the artists’ hub of Greenwich Village during the Seventies.
Etta makes the best of circumstances staying put in the rural enclave of Foster, Rhode Island, sketching the likes of its historic landmarks and scenic overlooks on her fishing ground.
However, deviant twists of fate with deaths resulting, arise from wild speculations and unwarranted suspicions when things aren’t what they seem:
*Chance encoun | |  | | Mr. Wizardo
(Baxter Springs, Kansas) - Discover how a beloved high school guidance counselor twists fate on behalf of four troubled misfits, and turns their life around.
Ten years after graduating from Franklin High, four troubled individuals indebted to their guidance counselor, Oscar Wizardo, wend their way back home to attend his funeral.
Grappling with their demons, dilemmas, and despair—Doreen Gale, Scott Crowe, Lyle Forrest, and Tim Woodman follow that figurative yellow brick road, walking a fine line between realism and magic. Discover what destiny holds in store for each of them.
Worlds apart from L. Frank Baum’s original, MR. WIZARDO takes flight over the rainbow through turbulent darkness and plot twists spewing fate’s debris.
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