Great Depression
Open Wounds
This is a story of survival. It begins in 1936, when the hero, 7-year old Cid Wymann, an abused, home-schooled…
Cowboys Don’t Cry
Scout McBride is a young boy growing up outside of El Paso, Texas, during the Depression. Raised on a farm…
The Sweetest Thing
Elizabeth Musser’s eighth novel, set in Atlanta during the Great Depression of the 1930s, is a story of faith, friendship…
Beyond the Bougainvillea
Beyond the Bougainvillea is the first novel from ninety-year-old Durando. Basing it in part on her childhood in North Dakota…
On the Blue Comet
Oscar Ogilvie lives with his father in Cairo, Illinois, at the end of Lucifer Street. He is an 11-year-old boy…
Big Wheat
Charlie Kreuger doesn’t think twice about the mysterious stranger in the wheat field on a dark night in late August…
Bird in a Box
Joe Louis, the first African-American world heavyweight champion (from 1937 to 1949), is a faraway and yet pivotal figure in…
Rules of Civility
Editors' choice
As a debut novel, Rules of Civility is a tour de force. Breathtaking in its capture of 1938 New…
Silver Rain
After losing her house and her father to the Depression, 11-year-old Elsie moves into the garage behind their Vancouver house…
$teel Dreams
Shortly after the 1928 stock market collapse, James Campbell, the founder of Youngstown Sheet and Tube (S&T) and Frank Purnell,…
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