Great Depression

Where Only Storms Grow: A Novel About the Dust Bowl

By Alyssa Colman - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

As 1935 begins, dust is wrecking everything in the Oklahoma Panhandle. When the dusters blow through, they leave piles of dust like snowdrifts against ...Read Review

Murder at Midwinter Farm (A Miss Underhay Mystery)

By Helena Dixon - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Devon, 1937, is the familiar setting for the latest cozy mystery in the Miss Underhay series. Kitty and her husband, retired Captain Matt Bryant, ...Read Review

The Matchbox Girl

By Alice Jolly - Published 2026

Genres:

Literary

Whatever happened to Asperger’s Syndrome? Short answer: once a separate diagnosis, it was recently merged into Autism Spectrum Disorder. Why? A much ...Read Review

Worktown

By Bill Hodson - Published 2025

Genres:

Bolton, 1938: the anthropologist, Tom Harrisson, one of the three founders of the Mass Observation project, persuades a naïve former public schoolboy and ...Read Review

Hardly A Lady

By Frances Strickler - Published 2025

Genres:

In 2010, an elderly lady reflects on her life and how she was “hardly a lady.” She opens her journals, which begin with her 14...Read Review

Narrow the Road

By James Wade - Published 2025

Genres:

Western

Living in Shawnee Prairie, Texas, in 1932, young Will Carter knows more than he wants to about dying. The bank is about to foreclose ...Read Review

War Games

By Alan Gratz - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

When Team USA travels to Berlin in 1936 to compete in the Olympics, young gymnast Evie Harris discovers that the discrimination and hatred by ...Read Review

Pitfall

By Terry Kirk - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In Chicago on 29 October 1929, “Black Tuesday,” thirty-two-year-old Frank, a prosperous trader, has his fortune wiped out in one day, like many of his ...Read Review

Unspoken (The Dust Series)

By Jann Alexander - Published 2025

Genres:

Adventure

Ruby Lee Becker’s silence is louder than any storm. Born into the swirling dust of the Panhandle in 1935, she loses so much ...Read Review

The White Octopus Hotel

By Alexandra Bell - Published 2025

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

A mysterious hotel in the Swiss Alps stars in this time-traveling fantasy novel.  In 2015, Eve Shaw is a London art appraiser – friendless and ...Read Review