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A Season of Dreams (American Century #4)
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Gilbert Morris |
While grateful for what they have, the Stuarts have to watch carefully lest times get even harder. When Jerry Stuart goes to Hollywood to join Aunt Lylah, he becomes a stunt pilot, not prepared for t… |
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All the King's Men
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Robert Penn Warren |
The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a Louisiana governor, but the real main character is Jack Burden, a reporter who serves to n… |
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The 1930s (1930-1939)
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Michael Shally-Jensen, editor |
Defining Documents offers a broad range of historical documents on important authors and subjects in American history, with primary source documents, in-depth analysis, and comprehensive lesson plans… |
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The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate rose
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Susan Wittig Albert |
As the members of the garden club in Darling, Alabama, prepare to plant roses for their annual Confederate Day celebration, they find themselves distracted by a series of mysteries involving stolen f… |
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Death at Dovecote Hatch
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Dorothy Cannell |
Suspecting foul play when a mild-mannered villager is found dead, housekeeper Florence Norris investigates a surprise will that reveals dark secrets in the victim's family history. |
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North River
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Pete Hamill |
It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers,… |
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Spanish Fly
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Will Ferguson |
Will Ferguson takes us on a wild romp across the dust bowl of West Texas. The year is 1939. The world is on the brink of war, and the American Dream is rusting out from the inside. Jack McGreary is a… |
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Another side of paradise
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Sally Koslow |
In 1937 Hollywood, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham's star is on the rise, while literary wonder boy F. Scott Fitzgerald's career is slowly drowning in booze. But the once-famous author, desperate to … |
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The silver gun
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L. A. Chandlar |
Lane Sanders is Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's new personal aide, but when she gets attacked by someone tied to the gangsters even La Guardia can't protect her. |
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Summertime
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Vanessa Lafaye |
Florida, 1935, and the residents of Heron Key are preparing for the 4th of July barbecue, little realising how much their world is about to change. Tensions simmer at the party and in the early hours… |
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Home life in the 1930s and 40s
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Faye Gardner |
Joyce Williams explains what life was like growing up on a farm in Wales during the 1930s and 40s. Includes notes for teachers with activities and cross curricular work. Suggested level: junior, prim… |
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A beauty
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Connie Gault |
In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena Huhtala finds her self living alone, a young Finnish woman in a community of Swedes in the small village of Trevna. Her … |
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The 1930s
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Stephen Feinstein |
"Discusses the decade 1930-1939 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics"-- |
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The factory girl
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Nancy Carson |
Henzey is no ordinary factory girl ... Henzey Kite can't believe it when Billy Watts walks into her life. A cut above the local boys -- strong, charming and wildly ambitious -- he won't settle for an… |
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Brick Brannigan is knee-deep in peril!
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Eric Bonkowski |
"The year is 1935. The world is trapped between economic strife and the foreboding storm clouds of war. Things are pretty bad, right? Ah, yes, but they can always get worse. Enter Monsieur Black Fang… |
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Lizzie Flowers and the family firm
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Carol Rivers |
1934: Lizzie Flowers has been mother and protector to her East End family, the Allens of Langley Street, since she was fifteen. Even when her doomed marriage to Frank Flowers collapses, she sacrifice… |
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Death invites you
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Paul Halter |
Did Harold Vickers, the best-selling author of impossible crimes foresee his own death, or did he possibly even arrange it? When two guests knock on her door with dinner invitations, Mrs. Vickers is … |
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Tommy Gun Tango
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Brant Randall |
When Lawe loses his job as Marshal of Potemkin County he drifts to Los Angeles. Along the way he picks up a hitchhiker named Al Haine. Haine is a storyteller, a gambler (who always wins), an ardent M… |
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Contrasting decades, the 1920's and 1930's
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D. Duane Cummins |
Discusses the economic prosperity and normalcy of the 1920's, the Depression, and President Roosevelt's New Deal and its legacy. |
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Tony
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Charles Reis Felix |
*Tony: A New England Boyhood* is an autobiographical novel about growing up in Gaw (New Bedford), Massachusetts in the 1930s much in the same way that Thomas Bailey Aldrich's celebrated boyhood novel… |
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