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First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...
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English
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A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
4) Earthly vows
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Series
Millwood Hollow series volume 4
Publisher
Warner Faith
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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"The fourth and final novel of the Millwood Hollow series finds Jeb Nubey and Fern Coulter finally setting a wedding date, but visiting Fern's family in Oklahoma proves unexpectedly rocky"--Provided by the publisher.
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Ig Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Nelson Algren was a renowned writer, known for his penetrating and influential social novels such as The Man With the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Originally published in 1935, Somebody in Boots was Algren's first novel, based on his experiences living in Texas during the Great Depression. A wonderful companion to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, this new edition of Somebody in Boots features an introduction by Colin Asher, who is writing...
6) The warning
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Reluctant prophet (T. Davis Bunn) volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
He had read the passage form Genesis dozens of times, but now the words rose up before him with new and terrifying meaning. The nightmares he'd been having for over two weeks started to make sense, like an image projected on a screen slowly coming into focus. And then, unmistakably, a message. It is coming. Forty-one days. The awful deadline left Buddy frightened and confused. Speaking about what he knew would threaten his job, his family's security,...
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Millwood Hollow series volume 1
Publisher
Warner Faith/Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
10) Whisper town
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Series
Millwood Hollow series volume 3
Publisher
Warner Faith
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"The third novel in the Millwood Hollow Series about an unlikely hero and a ragtag trio of orphans in racially segregated 1930s Arkansas"--Provided by the publisher.
14) Easy pickin's
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Okie Dunn stories volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In a small Oklahoma town in the 1930s, an unexpected crime wave baffles the local sheriff and turns the town upside down.
17) Shiloh autumn
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T. Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
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The Tucker and Canfield families are weathering the stock market crash just fine on their Arkansas cotton farm, but the Memphis panic and disaster of October 1, 1931 send them into a tailspin and the troubles seem to keep piling up as they try to hold on to their faith in God.
19) River rising
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Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 4
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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