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Series
Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 4
Language
English
Description
A new look for this bestselling historical series; Josh commits himself to having a family and running the family farm in this stirring conclusion.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
3) By starlight
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In early 1930s Montana, in the small town of Colton, Maddy Aldridge struggles to make ends meet during the Great Depression. With her mother long dead, her stubborn younger sister fighting her at every turn, and her father's arthritis deteriorating so badly that she has to run the family store alone, her desperation grows by the day. Enter Jeffers Grimm with a proposition too great for her to turn down: open an illegal speakeasy in the mercantile's...
Author
Series
American century volume 4
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
From the destitution of the Oklahoma oil fields to the glitter of Hollywood's Golden Age, this beautiful story of a family uniting to save a dream will captivate readers.
Author
Language
English
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Description
I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you’re a spice cake, you’re a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food.
Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well define her state of mind. Abandoned by her mother as a child, mistreated by her father, and teased by her schoolmates (“Hey, Olive Oyl, where’s...
Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well define her state of mind. Abandoned by her mother as a child, mistreated by her father, and teased by her schoolmates (“Hey, Olive Oyl, where’s...
Author
Series
Wortham volume 2
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Manias, Panics and Crashes, is a vivid and entertaining account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries. Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this book has been hailed as 'a true classic...both timely and timeless.' In this new, updated fifth edition, Kindleberger and Aliber expand upon the ideas presented in the previous...
Author
Series
Wortham volume 3
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Country Road chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Film Preservation Associates
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (194 min.) : mono sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Our daily bread (King Vidor 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor. -- The fake newsreels "California Election News #1 and #2 (1934), were secretly produced by MGM as "dirty tricks" in the film industry's political war against Upton Sinclair. -- The River (Pare Lorentz 1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississippi...
Series
Garland reference library of social science volume 505
Publisher
Garland Pub
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
xv, 779 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
16) River rising
Author
Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Dorothy Garlock weaves a thrilling tale of life in Depression-era Missouri, as the folks of Fertile-including the beloved Jones clan-brace for disaster... one that could expose this quaint midwestern town to a flood of shameful truths and shattering secrets.
When pretty April Asbury arrives in Fertile, Missouri, to take her place as Dr. Forbes's new nurse, she's looking forward to life in this picturesque town. And it doesn't disappoint....
When pretty April Asbury arrives in Fertile, Missouri, to take her place as Dr. Forbes's new nurse, she's looking forward to life in this picturesque town. And it doesn't disappoint....
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
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Description
Beatrice Carraway has dreams. She’s intent on carrying her talents all the way to the big screen—if only she can escape the poverty of West Dallas first. But as the Great Depression drags, Beatrice struggles just to keep herself and her family afloat. After a string of failed auditions, she feels defeated. And then in walks Jack Turner. Though Beatrice is determined to pull herself up by her bootstraps, Jack has decided on a different path out...
18) With hope
Author
Series
Dolan brothers volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
20) The miracle
Author
Series
Singing River series volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Raising four strong-willed younger siblings after her mother’s death and her father’s imprisonment, seventeen-year-old Lanie Freeman never knows what new adventure will roll into view—such as her brother’s wild idea to turn the family’s old truck into a traveling store. The Freeman Rolling Emporium could provide the financial security Lanie and her family so desperately need, or it could tear them apart. Yet it’s
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