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2) Commencement
Author
Language
English
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Description
A tender story of friendship, a witty take on liberal arts colleges, and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose.
Author
Language
English
Description
Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
5) Tobacco road
Author
Language
English
Description
The classic novel of a Georgia family undone by the Great Depression: “[A] story of force and beauty” (New York Post). Even before the Great Depression struck, Jeeter Lester and his family were desperately poor sharecroppers. But when hard times begin to affect the families that once helped support them, the Lesters slip completely into the abyss. Rather than hold on to each other for support, Jeeter, his wife Ada, and...
6) Red River
Author
Series
Tademy family chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxi, 579 pages).
Language
English
Description
Focuses on American children, decade by decade from 1880 to 1999, introducing three children from each decade and one from each of the working, middle and upper classes.
14) Harvest of shame
Series
Publisher
CBS Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 55 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This 1960 exposé on the plight of migrant farm workers led to permanent changes in the laws protecting workers' rights.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
58 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at life for girls and women in America in 1904, discussing city and town life, social reform, new inventions, amusements, and more.
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Language
English
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Description
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and “a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review).
In this “invaluable record” of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of...
In this “invaluable record” of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
In the latest survivalist thriller from founder of survivalblog.com and New York Times bestselling author James Wesley, Rawles, two expat families struggle for their very survival in the midst of a global economic collapse.
When the United States suffers a major socioeconomic collapse, a power vacuum sweeps the globe. A newly radicalized Islamic government rises to power in Indonesia, invades the Philippines, East Timor, Papua New...
When the United States suffers a major socioeconomic collapse, a power vacuum sweeps the globe. A newly radicalized Islamic government rises to power in Indonesia, invades the Philippines, East Timor, Papua New...
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