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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"By the publisher of the prestigious Grant's Interest Rate Observer, an account of the deep economic slump of 1920-21 that proposes, with respect to federal intervention, "less is more." This is a free-market rejoinder to the Keynesian stimulus applied by Bush and Obama to the 2007-09 recession, in whose aftereffects, Grant asserts, the nation still toils. James Grant tells the story of America's last governmentally-untreated depression; relatively...
122) Mondays in the sun
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows five unemployed shipyard workers on the coast of Spain. Led by the cocky Santa, the men may be down on their luck but still encourage each other to search for work, love and the strength to hope for better days.
123) Honkytonk man
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1982]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Red Stovall is a hard-drinking drifter who sings for his super in second-rate roadhouse bars through some of the loneliest, dustiest countryside ever ravaged by the Great Depression. Stovall, however, nurses the embers of a dream--to audition with the legendary Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 12-year-old girl leaves Chicago to search for her single father, who has gone to Washington State to look for work during the Great Depression. Along the way, she forms a close bond with two traveling companions, a protective wolf and a hardened drifter.
Publisher
New Line Home Enertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young girl enlists the help of her friends to solve a robbery in her home that threatens to put her family's house into foreclosure, after her father leaves town to look for work and her mother takes in borders to make ends meet.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (573 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Disc 1: First, Bill and Jack are railroad men. When Bill comes to stay with Jack and his wife, Bill and Lily fall in love. Jack confronts Bill about his suspicions and the two fight, leaving Jack seriously injured. Last, Joan Gordon is a singer tiring of her relationship with Eddie. She flees to North Dakota to become a mail-order bride. Happiness is threatened by her stubborn husband, a lecherous neighbor and the appearance of Eddie.
Disc 2: First,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
169 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Description
Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.
128) Home in the woods
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Description
During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tarpaper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
189 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Description
A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
x, 340 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Description
Presents an oral history of the dust storms that devastated the Great Plains during the Depression, following several families and their communities in their struggle to persevere despite the devastation.
131) Palisades Park
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
421 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
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 eventual closing in 1971.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
A modern-day girl finds herself in 1933 Cincinnati, Ohio, and as she and Kit experience life during the Great Depression, the reader is invited to choose how Kit might help her family and others who are less fortunate.
133) Read all about it!
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Kit, 1934 volume 1
Kit classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Kit 1934 volume 1
Kit classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Kit 1934 volume 1
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
121 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.
Description
When Kit's family has to take in boarders, it seems as if they may be able to keep their house although her father lost his business, but the changes put a strain on Kit's friendship with Ruthie, especially as Kit spends her days helping cranky Uncle Hendrick.
136) Some folk
Author
Publisher
Proper Records
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
4 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 Booklet
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 21 cm
Description
With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search of great food, Good Taste is the perfect historical novel for fans of Dear Mrs. Bird and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. You can tell a lot about a person from what they like to eat... England in 1932 is in the grip of the Great Depression. Stella Douglas, author of a much-loved but not very successful biography, is...
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