The Great Depression – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

The 1920s

The particularity of 1920s British fiction has become obscured by an academic focus on modernism. This book takes a fresh approach to the decade by examining both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf …

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Vern Thiessen
Icemen

A wealthy businessman wakes up bound and gagged in a utility shed, kidnapped by his own employees--brothers and icemen Joe and Rennie. In the midst of the Great Depression, the brothers' ice harvesting li…

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Benjamin Ferencz
Make It Count

What a century of life experience can teach us about happiness, ambition, courage, love and how to make the most of the lives we've been given.How many people do you know grew up as a poor immigrant in Am…

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Listen Closely as Johnson County Speaks - Vol. 3

Oral History gathering is an official method of preserving voices and memories-to see a slice of the pie of life. Only we can tell our own story. A good first-person story will leave us wondering, thinkin…

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Thomas Leslie
Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934

A detailed tour, inside and out, of Chicago's distinctive towers from an earlier ageFor more than a century, Chicago's skyline has included some of the world's most distinctive and inspiring buildings. Th…

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Caroline Starr Rose,
Books Up the Mountain

"A tale of courage, commitment and the transformative power of stories, Books Up the Mountain: A Packhorse Librarian Story is a compelling tribute to the brave women who served the people of the Appa…

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Robert Suits
The Hobo

A panoramic history of America's first climate migrantsFrom the mid-nineteenth century through the dustbowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in communiti…

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Rena Olsen,
Maxine's Joy

Most people chase happiness. Maxine teaches us to choose joy.Maxine's Joy is the heartwarming, true story of Maxine Landrum Thaxton, who lived through The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and World War II…

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Amy Goober, Gwen Borden
My Mother Always Says

Brimming with wisdom and humor, My Mother Always Says offers timeless advice for navigating life.Decades before the power of mindset was popularized, Gwen Borden was already finding the good in whatever l…

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Myra Page
Gathering Storm

This novel is one of the most clear-eyed and compelling works of the Great Depression. As Marge Crenshaw grows up in the cotton mills, she learns to fight the forces of racial, sexual, and class oppressio…

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Tammy Armstrong
Pearly Everlasting

"A remarkable story, sparkling with brilliance." ---Amanda Peters, author Berry Pickers"One of those novels that instantly transports you to a world that's so bighearted and full of love th…

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Elizabeth Tracy,
Mystery Driver: The Story of Alice Johnson and the First Soap Box Derby

Alice is determined to build the fastest car in the boys-only soap box derby in this empowering true tale of ingenuity, engineering, and the joy of creating your dreams.Alice loves swooping through the cl…

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Horst Freyhofer, Sue Freyhofer
Against the Wind

The story of a family forged by history, held together by love, and driven by a fierce determination to surviveHorst Freyhofer was born in 1938 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and survived the Allied bombings tha…

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Charles Frazier
Trackers LP, The

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great DepressionHurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depres…

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Nathanael West
The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, its overarching themes deal with the alienation and desperation of a broa…

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Ruth Adams
The Museum of Happiness

The Museum of Happiness was established at the end of the last century, before the Great War. It held on through that, surviving on the glimmers of optimism that had flickered and gone out only to be re-i…

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Mike Bodayle
A League of His Own

A League of His Own is more than a memoir-it's a heartfelt story of a father and son bound together by baseball, family, and the ever-changing rhythms of life in Bayonne, New Jersey.Set against the backdr…

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Gemma Tizzard
Grace of the Empire State

1930 New York As the Great Depression bites, show dancer Grace's Irish immigrant family can't afford the rising rents, nor the medicine that her little sister urgently needs. When her twin brother is inju…

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H Zahra Caldwell
The Fiercest Kind

Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights eraIn 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat's On halted for three days due to an on-s…

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Maria Golia
Ornette Coleman

"Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the African-American composer and musici…

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