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[2021] | First U.S. edition. | St. Martin's Press | 454 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. | English |
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"Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
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2007 | 1st pbk. ed. | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | 350 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Fiction Gruen, S |
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pc2006 | HighBridge | 10 sound discs (11.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media CD spoken Fiction Gruen, S |
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2006 | Thorndike Press | 563 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Large Type Fiction Gruen, S |
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A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
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[2018] | Sourcebooks Landmark | 343 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm | English | On Shelf
La Farge has 2 Fiction McMorris, K Main Fiction McMorris, K |
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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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[2014]. | Dutton | 507 pages : map ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Fiction McGarrity, M |
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p2014 | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 12 sound discs (14 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Southside AV CD spoken Fiction McGarrity, M |
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Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.
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La Farge Childrens - J
Fiction Taylor, M
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Fiction Taylor, M
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[2016] | 40th Anniversary Special edition. | Dial Books for Young Readers | 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Childrens - J Fiction Taylor, M Main Childrens - J Fiction Taylor, M |
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p2001 | Random House | 6 sound discs (7 hrs., 26 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Childrens Audiobook J CD spoken Fiction Taylor, M Southside Childrens Audiobooks J has 3 CD spoken Fiction Taylor, M |
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
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c2007 | 1st ed. | William Morrow | 342 p. ; 24 cm. | English |
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From Paulette Jiles, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Enemy Women, comes a poignant and unforgettable story of hardship, sacrifice, and strength in a tragic time-and of a desperate dream born of an undying faith in the arrival of a better day
Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls-responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea-know no life but an itinerant one,...
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1999 | Delacorte Press | viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Childrens - J Fiction Curtis, C |
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p2000 | Random House Listening Library | 5 sound discs (5 hr., 16 min.) : Digital, Dolby processed ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
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Main Childrens - J
Fiction Tripp, V
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Fiction Tripp, V
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2000 | Pleasant Co. Publications | 68 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Childrens - J Fiction Tripp, V Southside Childrens - J Fiction Tripp, V |
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When her father's business closes because of the Great Depression forcing Kit to make changes in her life, the nine-year-old responds with resourcefulness.
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La Farge Childrens - J
Fiction Osborne, M
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Fiction Osborne, M
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c2006 | 1st ed. | Random House | 110 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Childrens - J Fiction Osborne, M Southside Childrens - J Fiction Osborne, M |
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The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn. In this exciting new Merlin Mission, Jack and Annie go back in time to New York City, during one of the darkest periods in the city's history--the Great Depression. Even worse, the city is in the grip of a terrible snowstorm. To stop the blizzard, Jack and Annie must save the unicorn made famous in the Cloister's medieval tapestries. But will...
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c2001 | 1st ed. | Greenwillow Books | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Childrens Picture Book Fiction Hurst, C |
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A young man has a lifelong love of rock collecting that eventually leads him to work at a science museum.
11) Out of the dust
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La Farge Childrens - J
Fiction Hesse, K
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Fiction Hesse, K
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1997 | 1st ed. | Scholastic Press | 227 p. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Childrens - J Fiction Hesse, K Southside Childrens - J Fiction Hesse, K |
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[2006], p1998 | Unabridged. | Listening Library | 2 sound discs (ca. 2 hr., 10 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Childrens Audiobook J CD spoken Fiction Hesse, K Southside Childrens Audiobooks J CD spoken Fiction Hesse, K |
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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
12) The homestead
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[2017] | Good Books | 349 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Fiction Byler, L |
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During the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Amish girl Hannah and her family move from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to a homestead in North Dakota, hoping to make a fresh start, but face harsh realities and nearly starve until Hannah takes matters into her own hands, going into town to look for a job, leaving her little time to contemplate her feelings for her neighbor.
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Fiction Tripp, V
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Fiction Tripp, V
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2001 | Pleasant Company Publications | 68 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Childrens - J Fiction Tripp, V Southside Childrens - J Fiction Tripp, V |
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Tired of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train.
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La Farge Childrens - J
Fiction Peck, R
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Fiction Peck, R
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Fiction Peck, R
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2004 | Puffin Modern Classics ed. | Puffin Books | 148 pages ; 18 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Childrens - J Fiction Peck, R Main Childrens - J Fiction Peck, R Southside Childrens - J Fiction Peck, R |
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A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
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[2014] | Kensington Books | viii, 328 pages ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Wiseman, E |
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In this stunning new novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree merges the past and present into a haunting story about the nature of love and loyalty--and the lengths we will go to protect those who need us most.
Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have...
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c2010 | 1st ed. | Delacorte Press | viii, 351 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Childrens - J has 2 Fiction Vanderpool, C |
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℗2011 | Listening Library | 8 audio discs (9.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Childrens Audiobook J CD spoken Fiction Vanderpool, C |
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Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
17) Palisades Park
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2013 | 1st. ed. | St. Martin's Press | 421 p. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Fiction Brennert, A Main Fiction Brennert, A |
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Sharing a family life in the 1930s near the legendary Palisades Amusement Park, a family of dreamers explores ambitions and cultural boundaries that are challenged by the realities of the Great Depression, multiple wars, and the park's eventual closing in 1971.
18) Stars of Alabama
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2019. | Thomas Nelson | 339 pages ; 25 cm. | English |
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"When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within her. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes...
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2001 | Pleasant Company Publications | 67 p. ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Childrens - J Fiction Tripp, V |
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On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness. Includes information on life in America during the Great Depression.
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Main Childrens - J
Fiction Lasky, K
Southside Childrens - J
Fiction Lasky, K
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2001 | Scholastic | 185 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Childrens - J Fiction Lasky, K Southside Childrens - J Fiction Lasky, K |
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In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
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