Great Depression
Coney
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Harry Catzker is a Jewish boy growing into adulthood on Coney Island during the 1930s. His life is intertwined with a cast of ...Read Review
A Student of Weather
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Maurice Dove, a botanist and student of weather, journeys from Ottawa to rural Saskatchewan in the mid-1930s to analyze the climate of ...Read Review
Thunder on the Mountain: A Novel of 1936 (Hemlock County)
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The “Thunder” of the titles can be explained in at least different ways. (1) Thunder Oil of Pennsylvania, a family dynasty under the control ...Read Review
These Granite Islands
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It’s 1999 and Isobel Howard is 99 years old. She knows she is dying, and she is taking one last look back at the ...Read Review
The Hatbox Baby
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Diane Arbus meets Fritz Lang in this World’s Fair as metaphor for life. Carnival freaks are human beings, and human beings ...Read Review
Bottoms
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This novel of Depression-era East Texas is reminiscent of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Rich in description and period detail, it ...Read Review
Thunder on the Mountain: A Novel of 1936 (Hemlock County)
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The “Thunder” of the titles can be explained in at least different ways. (1) Thunder Oil of Pennsylvania, a family dynasty under the control ...Read Review
The Houseguest
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It’s a good feeling to open up a new book and know after reading the first words that I’ve “discovered” a ...Read Review
A Simple Shaker Murder
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This is the fourth entry in the Sister Rose Callahan series, set in the Shaker Village of North Homage, Kentucky during the 1930s. ...Read Review
