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Miss Route 66 Now available as an audio book on 5 CD's - 7 hours running timeClick here to listen to an excerpt read by Elizabeth Brinkley .Read the whole Prologue here. Order copies below . |
Michael
Lund , the author
of the Route 66 Novel Series, grew up in Rolla, Missouri, and now teaches
college composition and literature in Virginia.
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This novel takes characters from earlier works in the Route 66 Novel Series farther west than Los Angeles, official destination of the famous highway, Route 66. Mark Landon and Billy Rhodes find the values they grew up on challenged by America's role in Southeast Asia. But elements of their upbringing represented by the Mother Road also sustain them in ways they could never have anticipated. |
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1. Growing Up on Route
66 (2000) growinguponroute66.com
-- Read the Prologue hear Mike Lund Read the Prologue) (Sound file courtesy of TMI Productions) Growing Up On Route 66, a novel, is set in a Missouri small town along “America’s Main Street.” Most of the action takes place in a neighborhood known to the children growing up there as the "Circle.” That time and place are remembered by the novel’s narrator as ideal, but closer scrutiny repeatedly--and often humorously--complicates this innocent picture. In growing up we continually confront things that do not make sense. Then, in sudden moments of inspiration the pieces come together. For those growing up in the 1950s, the biggest mystery of childhood was sex. And central characters in this story, Mark Landon and Marcia Terrell, are repeatedly surprised as parts of this great puzzle take shape in and around them. We are determined to a large degree by the material world in which we live, our own bodies and the world around us. The landscape Mark Landon comes to appreciate contains the great promise this nation enjoyed after World War II. For those living west of the Mississippi especially, this prospect was symbolized by The Mother Road, Route 66.
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2. Route 66 Kids (2002)
route66kids.com
-- Read the Prologue to Route 66 Kids Route 66 Kids, the second in Michael Lund's Route 66 novel series, is a Babyboomers' coming-of-age story, reminding us that children always wonder about their origin. When kids asked "Where do I come from?" in the 1950s, they were really asking about sex, the biggest mystery for those growing up in an age of American innocence. Cold War children also wanted to know more about their parents and the community which surrounded them. Central characters in this novel, Mark Landon and Marcia Terrell, find out about the past in the structures of the Missouri small town they live in, which is located along “America’s Main Street." Route 66. Throughout their story this great highway endures as a symbol of the promise this nation enjoyed at mid-century.
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3. A Left-hander on Route
66 (2003) left-hander.com
Not everyone would share in America's post-war prosperity of the 1950s. Fairfield, Missouri native Hugh Noone knew he had been born on the wrong side of the tracks, and society's reaction to his left-handedness convinced him that he would not be in a position to enjoy new freedoms coming with the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s. In fact, he writes his life story from jail, appealing his wrongful conviction and imprisonment twenty years after the event. But revealing the details of his past and effecting a resolution of his case mean a dramatic rearrangement of his world.
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4. Miss Route 66
missroute66.com
In this novel, Susan Bell tells the story of her candidacy in Fairfield, Missouri's annual beauty contest. Now married and with teenage children in St. Louis, she recounts her youthful adventure in this small town along "America's Highway." At the same time, she plans a return to Fairfield in order to right injustices she feels were done to some young contestants in the Miss Route 66 Pageant. Throughout this journey she wonders what, if anything, was feminine in the "Mother Road" of the 1950s.
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5. Route 66 Spring
route66spring.com
The lives of four young Missourians are changed when a bottle comes to the surface of one of the state's many natural springs. Inside is a letter written by a girl a dozen years after the end of the Civil War. Lucy Rivers Johns ' epistle contains a sad story of family failure and a powerful plea for help. This message from the last century crystallizes the individual frustrations of Janet Masters, Freddy Sills, Louis Clark, and Roberta Green, another group of Route 66 kids. Their response to the past charts a bold path into the future, a path inspired by the Mother Road itself.
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6. Route 66 to Vietnam route66tovietnam.com(October 2004) This novel takes
characters from earlier works in the Route 66 Novel Series farther west
than Los Angeles, official destination of the famous highway, Route 66.
Mark Landon and Billy Rhodes find the values they grew up on challenged
by America's role in Southeast Asia. But elements of their upbringing
represented by the Mother Road also sustain them in ways they could never
have anticipated.
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