Great Depression
Witches on the Road Tonight
Editors' choice
A writer and photographer, writing and shooting a travel guide for the WPA, drive the unmarked back roads of Appalachia…
Angel Sister
When fourteen-year-old Kate Merritt goes to her grandfather’s church early one morning, she is surprised to find a five-year-old child…
The Luck of the Buttons
Twelve-year-old Tugs wishes she wasn’t a part of the hapless and disaster-prone Button family. From Great Granddaddy Ike, who accidentally…
Come Again No More
The second volume in Todd’s planned memoir-turned-fiction trilogy (after Sun Going Down), Come Again No More can also easily stand…
Nissa’s Place
Both rural and city life of the Great Depression come alive in Nissa’s Place. Two years after her free-spirited mother…
An American Type
The Great Depression was no help to poor, New York Jewish ghetto novelist Ira Stigman, who loathed his current dependence…
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
The inhabitants of Threestep, Georgia didn’t just gain a schoolteacher when Miss Grace Spivey arrives in town in August 1938.…
Moon over Manifest
Editors' choice
Abilene Tucker is used to living on the road with her father, Gideon. But one summer during the Depression, Gideon…
‘Nada
1936 Mexico is the setting for this hard-boiled tale of greed and promises to keep. Vernon Culley, a bookish engineer…
Two for Sorrow
This is the second in Upson’s planned series of crime novels featuring Josephine Tey, one of the doyennes of the…
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