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21) River rising
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Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 4
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English
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Dorothy Garlock brings back the beloved Jones clan to weave a stirring tale of life in Depression-Fertile, Missouri, to take her place as Dr. Forbes's new nurse, she's looking forward to life in this picturesque town. And it doesn't disappoint. Even the driving rain can't dim its charm. But while Fertile may seem as pristine as April's starched white uniforms, it's anything but. April will need all her strength to resist Joe Jones, a man who has "heatrtbreaker"...
22) The unplowed sky
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An orphaned young woman finds hardship and romance on the Kansas prairie in this heartwarming work of historical fiction. It is 1924 and nineteen-year-old Hallie Meredith and her five-year-old brother Jackie must fend for themselves in America's struggling heartland. Forced to leave a housekeeping job when her married employer, wealthy landowner Quentin Raford, makes romantic overtures, Hallie becomes the cook for a threshing outfit. As she and...
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Lois Phillips Hudson eloquently portrays George Custer, a determined and angry man who must battle both the land and the landlord; his hard-working wife Rachel; and their young and vulnerable daughter Lucy. Through their compelling story looms a sense of a whole nation's tragedy during the Great Depression.
25) With heart
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Dolan brothers series volume 4
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English
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In Oklahoma, 1938, though scarcity and hardship have taken their toll on the spirit of the nation, one young woman still dares to dream. Kathleen Dolan has high hopes for investment in a newspaper, but then trouble strikes.
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2017.
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770L
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Sydney hates to talk (or even think) about sex. She's also fighting a secret battle against depression, and she's sure she'll never have a boyfriend. When her classmate Paul starts texting and sending her nature photos, she is caught off guard by his interest. Always uncomfortable with any talk about sex, Sydney is shocked when her extroverted sister, Abby, announces that she is going to put on The Vagina Monologues at school. Despite...
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House of Winslow volume 39
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English
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Life during the Great Depression has been hard for Alona Winslow Jennings, but it is turned upside down when she loses her husband in a terrible accident. When she marries Oscar Moran, a wealthy older man, her motivation is far more about Oscar providing for her three young sons than any romantic inclinations. Oscar is indeed a good provider, but there is no spark of love between them. She realizes the error of her decision when she begins to feel...
28) With hope
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Dolan brothers series volume 2
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English
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Oklahoma, 1932: Trouble seems to be rolling up like the dust on the dry yellow horizon beyond Henry Ann's farm. Her father is dead and her two rebellious half-siblings are now her responsibility. Then Tom Dolan, a new neighbor, comes into her life bringing both a ray of hope and burdens of his own. Before they can fully love each other, tragedy strikes. Tom is suspected of murder...and a staunch Henry Ann must stand by his side. Yet despite the dark...
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Charlotte Miller's debut novel, Behold, This Dreamer, was a regional success story in 2000-2001. She continues now with the second installment of her trilogy exploring romance, culture, and place in the Depression-era Deep South. In the new book, Janson Sanders and his new bride, Elise, have been exiled by her wealthy father and have returned, penniless and landless, to his poor-but-proud relatives in Alabama. There, they struggle to build a life...
30) The Pilgrim song
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House of Winslow volume 29
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English
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Lewis Winslow has money and an elegant house, and the future of his business is looking bright. --- {Excerpt from back cover.}
31) In body I trust
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Amelia is about to turn 30, but instead of celebratomg, she is overpowered by her battle against anxety and sepression driven by the inner voices of her little monster-her eating diorder. But as days progress, the moundane becomes the unmanageable. She self medicates with alcohol and sinks lower into vivid flashbacks of and Dominic backpacking the world together. one day he went to Guatemala, the next hevanished like a ghost, leaving Amelia to remain...
32) Bruise
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Ali Parker is a popular senior in high school. She's big headed and vain, and thinks little of the feelings of others. That is, until the day her life changes forever. The death of Sara Hale comes as a shock to many kids in her high school but the person most impacted is her former bully Ali Parker, who suddenly finds herself able to see the cuts and bruises of everyone. She soon realizes that the marks that appear blue are those that she personally...
33) Sweet ruin
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English
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After leaving a prestigious career to raise her daughter, thirty-five-year-old Elayna Leopold struggles with her husband's long work hours and recovers from the depression of losing an infant son in a growing relationship with an artist neighbor.
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American century series volume 4
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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After the tumultuous 1920s, the Stuart family and the rest of America must grapple with a terrible turn of events: the Great Depression. 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. He is not prepared for the turn his life will take. And half a continent away, Uncle Pete is fighting to keep his struggling oil rig...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1050L
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English
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Born with bird wings, Ava Lavender is well aware that love has long made fools of her family. When pious Nathaniel Sorrows mistakes her bird wings for angel wings, 16-year-old Ava faces the man's growing obsession, which comes to a head with the rain and feathers that fly through the air during a nighttime summer solstice celebration.
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""A portrait of Depression-era America so searingly authentic that the topsoil practically blows off each page."--Louis Bayard, author of Jackie & Me Already suffering the privations of the 1930s Dust Bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derails--flooding the hospital with the dead and maimed. Most of the dead are Black; scalded to death in a flimsy segregated car at the front of the train. Among the seriously wounded...
37) A room of my own
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This charming, old-fashioned story of a girl growing up during the depression will convince you that anything is possible. Against a backdrop of authentic hardship and despair, 13-year-old Virginia Eade discovers the true source of happiness. A doctor's daughter, Virginia spends her days dreaming of romance with "the two Charlies"-Charles Lindburgh and Charlie Chaplin. Soon Virginia is forced to give up her room to less fortunate relatives, and failed...
38) The velvet room
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Robin and her family have spent several years moving from place to place trying to find work and a home. When Robin's father finally finds a job, all are happy except Robin. She explores the countryside, finds new friends, and discovers a secret.
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The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell's gruff and powerful partner, they sail comfortably through hard times, scamming New York's grieving rich with elaborate, ingeniously staged séances -- until...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
730L
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English
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The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell. Jacob was there because his luck had run out-orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on this locomotive "ship of fools." It was the early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss...
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