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Gruen's atmospheric, gritty, and compelling bestseller, set in the circus world during the Great Depression, is now a major motion picture starring Robert Pattinson ("Twilight") and Academy Award-winners Christophe Waltz ("Inglorious Basterds") and Reese Witherspoon ("Walk the Line").
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Set in the high country of Colorado during the Depression, this is the story of an unforgettable friendship between two women--eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort and seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle--and the deepest hardships and darkest secrets they shared with each other.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of...
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of...
6) Emma's gift
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In this sequel to Julia's Hope, two families discover the depth of God's faithfulness as together they face loss and grief in the midst of the Great Depression.
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Country Road chronicles volume 1
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English
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A devastating fire in 1940 threatens two rural Illinois families, who together discover the power of forgiveness to restore and heal. Book one in a new series that follows the next generation of the Wortham family.
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2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family's dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children, not meant for publication. But when it leads to his big break, the consequences...
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2022.
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"Published when Josephine Johnson was only twenty-four years old, Now in November made Johnson the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1935. It is a beautifully told account of one farming family's challenges to scrape by and earn a living from mortgaged land over the course of a single year, narrated by one of three sisters-the introspective and thoughtful Margaret. As the household is ravaged by Depression-era hardship and the environmental...
13) The warning
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Reluctant prophet (T. Davis Bunn) volume 1
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c1998
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He had read the passage form Genesis dozens of times, but now the words rose up before him with new and terrifying meaning. The nightmares he'd been having for over two weeks started to make sense, like an image projected on a screen slowly coming into focus. And then, unmistakably, a message. It is coming. Forty-one days. The awful deadline left Buddy frightened and confused. Speaking about what he knew would threaten his job, his family's security,...
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c2000
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In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.
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When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other...
17) Nothing to fear
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[1991]
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When his father moves away to find work and his mother becomes ill, Danny struggles to help his family during the Great Depression.
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[2008]
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"Ruthie Smithens, a girl who loves fairy tales and happy endings, doesn't mind being 'goffy Ruthie' if it makes her best friend, Kit Kttredge, smile and forget about the hardships of the Depression. But when Ruthie finds out that the Kittredges are going to be evicted from their house, she makes up her mind to help ..."--Cover back.
20) The Pilgrim song
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House of Winslow volume 29
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English
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Wealthy Lewis Winslow loses everything in the financial crash of '29. He will have to radically change his priorities if he expects to survive. House of Winslow book 29.
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