Great Depression
Jubal
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Depression-era Mississippi is the setting for this family story, as seen through the eyes of a now grown-up Lucas Dunaway. Lucas and his ...Read Review
Stained Glass Rose
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
Stained Glass Rose is a fictionalized account of a crime that took place in Grand Junction, Colorado, in 1937. Intrigued by many unresolved issues ...Read Review
Tuxedo Park
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InspirationalMilitaryNonfiction
Conant’s first book is a vividly written biography of Alfred Loomis, Wall Street mogul in the 1920s and brilliant amateur physicist after 1929. ...Read Review
Plain Language
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Virginia Mendenhall graduates from a Quaker college and proceeds to social work in Philadelphia and later an Appalachian mining town. Her life seems ...Read Review
A World of Thieves
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These two Prohibition-era tough-guy crime thrillers (this one and Under the Skin) are almost (but not quite) the continuation of the other, and ...Read Review
Under the Skin
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These two Prohibition-era tough-guy crime thrillers (this one and A World of Thieves) are almost (but not quite) the continuation of the other, ...Read Review
Fanny and Sue
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Fanny and Sue are identical twins born just before the Great Depression in St. Louis. Although they look alike and often dress alike, ...Read Review
The Stricklands
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Life during the Great Depression is hard, particularly for those living in Oklahoma. The Stricklands are one such family. Facing imminent loss of ...Read Review
Dancing Dead
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This is the sixth in Woodworth’s Shaker mystery series that takes place during the Great Depression of the ’30s. The action returns ...Read Review
Someone to Watch Over Me
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The third offering in Churchill’s Grace and Favor series is by far her best. The book chronicles the lives of siblings Lily ...Read Review
