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Whose Names Are Unknown
Sanora Babb - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Paperback
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Sanora Babb's long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells an intimate story of the High Plains farmers who fled drought dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers' plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author's firsthand experience.... |
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The Victory Garden: A Novel
Rhys Bowen - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman's love and sacrifice during the First World War.As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort.... |
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Rainwater
Sandra Brown - Simon & Schuster
Format: Audiobook
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The year is 1934. With the country in the stranglehold of drought and economic depression, Ella Barron runs her Texas boardinghouse with an efficiency that ensures her life will be kept in balance. She also cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose misunderstood... |
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The Last Ballad: A Novel
WILEY CASH - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and inspired by actual events. The chronicle of an ordinary woman's struggle... |
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The Tilted World: A Novel
Tom Franklin - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Set against the backdrop of the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find unexpected love, from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller... |
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Stormy Weather: A Novel
Paulette Jiles - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover
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Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls - responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea - know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks.... |
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The Exiles: A Novel
Christina Baker Kline - William Morrow
Format: Paperback
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Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to “the... |
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The Practice House
Laura McNeal - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine's sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she's meant to lead and the person... |
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I Will Send Rain
Rae Meadows - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print Hardcover
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A luminous, tenderly rendered novel of a woman fighting for her family's survival in the early years of the Dust Bowl; from the acclaimed and award-winning Rae Meadows.Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn,... |
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As Bright as Heaven
Susan Meissner - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love.In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with... |
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The Road from Gap Creek: A Novel
Robert Morgan - A Shannon Ravenel Book
Format: Print book
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One of America's most acclaimed writers returns to the land on which he has staked a literary claim to paint an indelible portrait of a family in a time of unprecedented change. In a compelling weaving of fact and fiction, Robert Morgan introduces a family's captivating story, set during... |
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The Wanderers
Tim Pears - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"The powerful second novel in Tim Pears's acclaimed West Country trilogy. Two teenagers, bound by love yet divided by fate, forge separate paths in England before World War I. 1912. Leo Sercombe is on a journey. Aged thirteen and banished from the secluded farm of his childhood,... |
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May -- The women in the castle : a novel
Jessica Shattuck - William Morrow
Format: Book
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Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking,... |
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The Stars Are Fire: A novel
Anita Shreve - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection) : an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic... |
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The Promise of Dawn
LAURAINE SNELLING - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved Author Lauraine Snelling Launches New Immigrant SeriesWhen Signe, her husband, Rune, and their three boys arrive in Minnesota from Norway to help a relative clear his land of lumber, they dream of owning their own farm and building a life in the New World. But Uncle Einar and Aunt... |
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Anything Is Possible
Elizabeth Strout - Center Point Pub
Format: Library Binding
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Two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds, in the pages of a book, a kindred spirit who changes her life. |
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