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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Already suffering the privations of the 1930s Dust Bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derails--flooding its hospital with the dead and maimed. Among the seriously wounded is Etha, wife of Sheriff Temple Jennings. Overwhelmed by worry for her, the sheriff must regain his footing to investigate the derailment, which rapidly develops into a case of sabotage.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas Panhandle. The husband and wife live in a precarious wooden farm shack, but Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a five-cent government pamphlet, Tike has the know-how to build a simple adobe dwelling, a structure made from the land itself-fireproof, windproof, Dust Bowl-proof. A house of earth. Though they are...
5) Rainwater
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A romantic historical novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red about an independent woman who runs a boarding house in Dust Bowl Texas.
Ella Baron runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a ship's captain and the grace of a gentlewoman. She cooks, cleans, launders, and cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose busy behavior and failure to speak elicits undesired...
Ella Baron runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a ship's captain and the grace of a gentlewoman. She cooks, cleans, launders, and cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose busy behavior and failure to speak elicits undesired...
Series
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (65 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
Newly elected Congressman Roy Rogers attempts to bring attention to his constituents' farms that are being decimated by the Dust Bowl. Now that a water company has built a dam and is charging the farmers exorbitant rates for water, Roy must convince a group of important Senators to help him and the farmers.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies, his father's failed expectations, a little sister with an eye for trouble. But he also has to deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, including rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness. Certainly a case of "dust dementia" would explain who (or what) Jack has glimpsed in the Talbot's abandoned barn - a sinister...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families' farms in Central Texas in 1934. It's the days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and rain is as scarce as money. With the long dry spell have come wild animals with flashing teeth and deadly rabies. Dust storms known as black blizzards are raging, threatening lives and destroying cropland. Will a rainmaker bring rain? Will their families lose their homes? Will...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With a touch of magic and a harvest of hope, a young orphan and her exceptional elephant set out to change the destiny of a dying town devastated by a decade of dust storms, proving that from the smallest seeds, grow the greatest friendships.
12) Three faces west
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Phillips, the resident leader of a weather-ravaged Dust Bowl town welcomes a gifted surgeon, Dr. Karl Braun and his lovely daughter, Leni into his community. Dr. Braun and his daughter are refugees fleeing from the Nazis oppressed Austria and are looking to carve out a new existence for themselves.
13) Days of sand
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
276 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A moving and unforgettable tale, inspired by real-life stories of courage and perseverance during the Dust Bowl of 1930s America. United States, 1937. In the middle of the Great Depression, 22-year-old photographer John Clark is brought in by the Farm Security Administration to document the calamitous conditions of the Dust Bowl in the central and southern states, in order to bring the farmers' plight to the public eye. When he starts working through...
14) Bacchanal
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have. It's a gift for communicating with animals. To some, she's a magical tender. To others, a she-devil. To a talent prospector, she's a crowd-drawing oddity. And the Bacchanal Carnival is Eliza's ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge. Among fortune-tellers, carnies, barkers, and folks even stranger...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Just as Jeremiah Goodbye is set to die in the electric chair, a tornado tears down the prison, and he's given a second chance. With the flip of a coin, he decides to return to his home town of Nowhere, Oklahoma, to settle the score with his twin brother Josiah. But upon his escape, he enters a world he doesn't recognize--one that has been overtaken by the Dust Bowl. And the gift he once relied on to guide him is as unrecognizable as the path back...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Let the Wild Grasses Grow chronicles the lives of Della Chavez and John Cordova, childhood friends separated by a tragic accident, who find each other again during World War II after leading separate lives of struggle through the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and, for John, abuse at the hands of his grandfather. This sweeping American love story celebrates the power of home landscapes, family heritage, and first love.--Cover page [4].
18) The dust bowl
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns documents the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come,...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Photographs capture the horrific conditions of this national disaster, the struggles of the people who stayed to save their land, and the sorrows of those who were forced to move as a result of this catastrophe.
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