In 1932, Pip Tyler and his family suffer the ravages of dust storms in southern Alberta, Canada.
Depressions
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Auteur:Peterson, LoisSommaire:Abandoned by her father during the Depression, eleven-year-old Elsie lives in the garage behind her old house with her mother, grandmother Nan and out-of-work uncle. Elsie's friend Scoop accompanies her as she searches for her father in...
- Auteur:Brennert, AlanSommaire:
Sharing a family life in the 1930s near the legendary Palisades Amusement Park, a family of dreamers explores ambitions and cultural boundaries that are challenged by the realities of the Great Depression, multiple wars, and the park's...
- Auteur:Kindleberger, Charles PoorSommaire:
Kindleberger presents an intriguing study of the major financial upheavals of history.
- Auteur:Driedger, WilliamSommaire:
Humorous tales of life in the fictional Mennonite colony of Rosenheim during the Great Depression.
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Auteur:McManus, Curtis RSommaire:'Dirty Thirties' is the sobriquet commonly applied to the agricultural crisis in the drylands of southern Saskatchewan in Canada that coincided with the Great Depression. This title contends that the 'Dirty Thirties' actually began much...
- Auteur:De Montigny, SuzanneSommaire:
French-Canadian soldier, Napoleon, proposes to Lea during WWI, promising golden fields of wheat as far as the eye can see. After the armistice, he sends money for her passage, and she journeys far from her family and the conveniences of...
- Auteur:Slade, Arthur G.Sommaire:
Robert's brother vanishes and he has to find him. This award-winning book offers a new sophistication to young adult fiction, and a terrifying take on the psychology of fear.
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Auteur:Mole, RichSommaire:In October 1935, three prairie farm boys embarked on a deadly trail of robbery and murder that stretched across three western Canadian provinces and made newspaper headlines from coast to coast and as far away as Los Angeles. By the end...
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Auteur:Loewenstein, LaurieSommaire:When a rainmaker is bludgeoned to death during a colossal dust storm, small-town sheriff Temple Jennings shoulders yet another burden in the hard times of the 1930s Dust Bowl.
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Auteur:TinneanSommaire:It’s the height of the Depression, and people are desperate for a distraction from their lives. Film director Church Chetwood wants to help them forget — and he manages it with his documentaries and travelogues. But when the saber-tooth...
- Auteur:Smith, HeatherSommaire:
Lou spends every Saturday with Grandad and Pops. They walk to the library hand in hand, like a chain of paper dolls. Grandad reads books about science and design, Pops listens to rock and roll, and Lou bounces from lap to lap. But...
- Auteur:Kelly, ChrisSommaire:
"Confidence men, juvenile gang leaders, slaughterhouse impresarios, upright citizens, moonshiners, and a mysterious plague of dying jackrabbits roil in the wake of a kid called Chatter. The kid called Chatter has an affliction. Perhaps...
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