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Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
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On Canaan's Side
by Sebastian Barry
The Man Booker Prize short-listed author of The Secret Scripture presents the tragic story of youngest daughter Lilly Bere, who after fleeing Ireland under threat of death from the IRA survives heartache, a midlife pregnancy and the challenges of the Great Depression and multiple wars.
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Rainwater
by Sandra Brown
In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
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Prayers for Sale
by Sandra Dallas
Drawn to the newly married 17-year-old Nit Spindle, who has moved to their small mountain Colorado town to escape the ravages of the Great Depression, octogenarian Hennie Comfort forges a friendship with the young woman based on shared hardships and secrets. Reprint. A best-selling novel.
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By Starlight
by Dorothy Garlock
While running an illegal speakeasy in Colton, Montana during the Great Depression, Maddy Aldridge must keep her secret from Jack Rucker, an ex-boyfriend who broke her heart and who is now a Prohibition agent working undercover.
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Sea Glass : a novel
by Anita Shreve
Honora and Sexton Beecher find their lives forever changed when they are rendered virtually penniless by the crash of the stock market, forcing Sexton to work in a nearby mill, a job that is plagued by violence, and as they try to reconstruct their marriage and home, they are confronted by passions of every kind, in a powerful novel by the author of The Pilot's Wife. Reprint. 400,000 first printing.
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The Quickening
by Michelle Hoover
With the coming of the Great Depression to the upper Midwest, two farmer's wives are pitted against one another, exposing the dark secrets they hide and triggering a series of events that will unravel their friendship--and their families. A first novel. Original.
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The Well and the Mine : a novel
by Gin Phillips
Witnessing what she believes to be the murder of an infant in a Depression-era Alabama mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore and her civic-minded family subsequently struggle with the darker side of their racially torn community
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Oh My Stars
by Lorna Landvik
In a novel set during the early days of rock 'n roll, the life of Violet Mathers, a down-and-out woman, becomes embroiled with that of a handsome musical pioneer. By the author of Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons. 150,000 first printing.
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Witches on the Road Tonight
by Sheri Holman
His private life shattered amid rumors of his mother's witchcraft activities, Eddie Alley leaves his Depression-era Virginia hometown to begin a television career in New York and finds the past returning years later when he offers shelter to a homeless teen. By the best-selling author of The Dress Lodger.
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North River : a novel
by Pete Hamill
Tending to his poor and sick neighbors, including several who live outside the law, throughout a Depression-era winter, New York City doctor James Delaney is haunted by painful memories from World War I and the disappearances of his wife and daughter, until his three-year-old grandson is abandoned on his doorstep. Reprint.
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Mary Coin
by Marisa Silver
Imagines the lives of the subject of the photograph, photographer, and a college professor who finds a connection to a family legacy in the image of the iconic "Migrant Mother."
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The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia : a novel
by Mary Helen Stefaniak
Eleven-year-old Gladys Califf and her Depression-era community are turned upside down when a worldly teacher, who is fascinated with all things Arabian, moves into the small town.
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