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81) Cloudmaker
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane-a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother. His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight lessons. As his airplane takes shape, and the young cousins...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband. Bonus features included.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
c1991.
Language
English
Description
Like her first two award-winning novels (Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman), A Cure for Dreams is set in the rural and small-town South and draws richly upon the author's ear for comic turns of phrase and her sure grasp of the humor, pathos, and dignity of supposedly "ordinary" people. The determination of the women of the story to assert themselves in confining, dependent situations makes for uplifting, enjoyable reading.
Author
Series
Pearl Spence volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Pearl Spence lives in Dust-Bowl era Oklahoma with her mentally-impaired sister and sheriff father. Pearl's secure life begins to crumble when a hobo named Eddie comes into town and exposes a shocking secret that involves the whole town.
Series
Jazz volume episode 6
Publisher
PBS DVD Gold
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
1937-1939: The Depression can't stop swing as startling new voices and sounds are heard, including Count Basie, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald, and Coleman Hawkins. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
91) Risky Chance
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.
Author
Publisher
DiscoverRoo
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families living through the Great Depression? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more! A Day in the Life section, prompts for thinking deeper, sidebars, more facts, index, and glossary are also included. QR codes throughout the book will take readers to fun activities, informational links, videos, and more! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated...
94) Out of the smoke
Author
Series
Fire and steel volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Eckhardt and the Westland families are caught up in a whirlwind that will permanently and profoundly alter their lives. Mired in the depths of a global economic depression, the world takes little notice of a 1930 Parliamentary election in the floundering democracy of Germany. But overnight, Hitler and his Nazi Party catapult from the smallest to the second-largest political party in the country. And he would not stop there. From the compulsory...
Author
Series
Shiloh legacy volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
The Shiloh Legacy series covers the lives of four young soldiers and their families through these great events: the end of World War I in France, the return of the soldiers to America, the Roaring Twenties, the stock-market crash, the resulting Great Depression, and the rebuilding of lives that must follow. Yet with all the racial, social, and cultural intolerance that marked the dayseemingly immovable mountains in the lives of these charactersGod...
96) The castaways
Author
Publisher
NBM
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Young Tucker Freeman hops a train to find his place in the America of the Great Depression before the realities of being young, poor, and homeless consume him.
97) Shiloh autumn
Author
Series
Shiloh legacy volume 4
Publisher
T. Nelson
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
Who could have known their way of life would be blown away with the wind . . . in one day? In the autumn of 1931, Birch and Trudy Tucker are proud of what theyve built with their love and labor in Shiloh, Arkansas. The farm produces fine cotton. The pantry and cellar are full of food for the winter. Tom and Bobby are old enough to help with the family chores but young enough to get into mischief. Little Joey is the joy of his mothers...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the compelling story of the "Okie" migration to California and of the construction and life of a remarkable school at a farm workers' camp. This memorable book provides a glimpse of a neglected period of American history and tells a story of prejudice being transformed into acceptance and despair into hope.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
FDR appoints a Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up the American public. But when greedy industrialists who are profiting from the Depression thwart his every move, the Secretary begins to lose hope. That is, until he learns that some of the performances he has organized, including one by little Shirley Dugan, are lifting the nation out of its misery.
100) Ava's man
Author
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prizewinning author of All Over but the Shoutin continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mothers childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.
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