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41) Honkytonk man
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Red Stovall is a hard-drinking drifter who sings for his super in second-rate roadhouse bars through some of the loneliest, dustiest countryside ever ravaged by the Great Depression. Stovall, however, nurses the embers of a dream--to audition with the legendary Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
Series
Studio classic volume 17
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
52) The warning
Author
Series
Reluctant prophet volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fragrant blossoms herald spring, but the orchard is also a place of secrets and heartache. After the death of her husband Frank, Eliza is left with three young children and mounting debts. When a gentle stranger enters her orchard, she experiences a peculiar sensation of familiarity with the man. But will his unknown past jeopardize all that she has fought for?
57) Thieves like us
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Convicted murderer Bowie is as tough as they come. So tough, he's made a daring prison escape and has gone on the lam with two buddies. On a rampage across the country, this armed and dangerous trio is soon wanted for a series of violent bank robberies. But when they hole up in a rural farmhouse, Bowie falls for a young woman.
58) A time to weep
Author
Series
American odyssey volume no. 4
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
60) Prayers for sale
Author
Language
English
Description
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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