We are jumping back in time to the Eighties. Relive or experience for the first time popular books, movies, television shows and music from this era.

FICTION
FICTION ALLENDE
The house of the spirits / Isabel Allende
(1982) Allende’s debut novel was published in 1982 and follows the Trueba family’s passions, struggles and secrets through four generations beginning just before the start of World War I in Chile.

FICTION ATWOOD
The handmaid’s tale / Margaret Atwood
(1985) a look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction. (Also available in large print, audio CD and digitally as an ebook and eaudio from Libby/OverDrive.)

FICTION CONROY
The prince of tides / Pat Conroy
(1986) The story Interweaves the events of Tom Wingo’s summer in New York and his relationship to Susan Lowenstein, his sister Savannah’s beautiful psychiatrist and the complex history of the South Carolinian Wingo family, from World War II, through Vietnam. (Also available as an ebook and downloadable audio on Libby/OverDrive.)

FICTION FOLLETT
The pillars of the earth / Ken Follett
(1986) During the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, the ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through 40 years of social and political upheaval as internal church politics affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists. (Available in regular print, large print and audio CD plus as an ebook and eaudio from Libby/OverDrive.)

FICTION GARCIA
Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel García Márquez
(1988) Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, this is a story about a woman and two men and their entwined lives. The book was first published in Spanish in 1985 and translated to English in 1988. (Available in print and audio CD plus as an ebook and eaudio on Libby/OverDrive.)

FICTION MORRISON
Beloved / Toni Morrison
(1987) Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988.  Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is persistently haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl. (Available in regular print, large print and audio CD plus as an ebook and eaudio on Libby/OverDrive.)

NONFICTION
Libby/OverDrive eBook
Women, race & class / Angela Y. Davis
(1981) A powerful study of the women’s liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.

520 SAG
Cosmos / Carl Sagan
(1980) The well-known astronomer presents an illustrated guide to the universe and to Earth’s relationship to it, moving from theories of creation to humankind’s discovery of the cosmos, to general relativity, to space missions, and beyond. The book was published as a companion piece to the PBS mini-series of the same name. (Also available as an ebook on Libby/OverDrive.)

Libby/OverDrive ebook
And the band played on : politics, people, and the aids epidemic / Randy Shilts
(1987) Shilts’ expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80’s while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat. One of the few true modern classics, it changed and framed how AIDS was discussed in the following years.

Television

DVD 791.45 GOL
The golden girls / ABC Studios (1985)

DVD 781.45 HIL
Hill Street blues. The complete series / MTM Enterprises (1981)

HOOPLA  
21 Jump Street / Stephen J. Cannell (1987)

CHILD DVD 791.45 FUL
Full house / Jeff Franklin Productions (1987)

CHILD DVD 791.45 ALF
Alf. Season 1 / Alien Productions, Inc (1986)

Movies

DVD BACK TO THE FUTURE
Back to the future / Universal Pictures (1985)

DVD BEVERLY HILLS COP
Beverly Hills cop : 3 movie collection (1984)

DVD BREAKFAST CLUB
The breakfast club / Universal Pictures (1985)

DVD E T THE EXTRA TERESTRIAL
E.T. : the extra-terrestrial / Universal Pictures (1982)

DVD FATAL ATTRACTION
Fatal attraction / Paramount Pictures (1987)

CHILD DVD GOONIES
The Goonies / Amblin Entertainment (1985)

Music

CD BEASTIE BOYS
Paul’s boutique 20th anniversary edition / Beastie Boys (1989)

CD JACKSON MICHAEL
Thriller : the world’s biggest selling album of all time / Michael Jackson (1982)

CD LAUPER CYN
She’s so unusual : a 30th anniversary celebration / Cyndi Lauper (1983)

CD N W A
Straight outta Compton / N.W.A. (1988)

CD PRINCE
Purple rain : music from the motion picture / produced, arranged, composed, and performed by Prince & the Revolution (1984)

CD SPRINGSTEEN
Born in the U.S.A / Bruce Springsteen (1984)

CD TALKING HEADS
Remain in light / Talking Heads (1980)

CD U TWO
The Joshua tree / U2 (1987)

HOOPLA MUSIC
Hounds of love / Kate Bush (1985)

BH April 2023