Augie's nonconformity leads him into an eventful, humorous, and sometimes earthy way of life.

Augie's nonconformity leads him into an eventful, humorous, and sometimes earthy way of life

Follows a young boy as he grows to manhood in Appalachia and in Ohio, relying on his strong moral and spiritual values to sustain himself while he faces life during times of economic depression (view table of contents)

Product Description: The daughter of a wealthy midwestern family, young Rosalyn Fallon was sheltered from the struggles brought on by the Depression. But after the collapse of her father's company and the elopement of her fiancee and best friend, Rosalyn unexpectedly faces both hardship and heartbreak...read more

Product Description: Lois Phillips Hudson eloquently portrays George Custer, a determined and angry man who must battle both the land and the landlord; his hard-working wife Rachel; and their young and vulnerable daughter Lucy. Through their compelling story looms a sense of a whole nation's tragedy during the Great Depression...read more

The talented voice of East Texas delivers a riveting, poignant, and suspenseful tale of a Depression-era serial murder seen through the eyes of a young boy.

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Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depression. That is, until the circus of Dr. Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents. Expecting a sideshow spectacle, the citizens of Abalone instead confront and learn profound lessons from the mythical made real--a chimera, a Medusa, a talking sphinx, a sea serpent, witches, the Hound of the Hedges, a werewolf, a mermaid, an ancient god, and the elusive, ever-changing Dr. Lao. The circus unfolds, spinning magical, dark strands that ensnare the town's populace: the sea serpent's tale shatters love's illusions; the fortune-teller's shocking pronouncements toll the tedium and secret dread of every person's life; sensual undercurrents pour forth for men and women alike; and the dead walk again. Dazzling and macabre, literary and philosophical, The Circus of Dr. Lao has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of speculative fiction and influenced such writers as Ray Bradbury. This Bison Frontiers of Imagination edition features a new introduction by noted fantasy writer John Marco and striking illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff from the first edition.

Okie Dunn returns to his Oklahoma home in the midst of the Great Depression and finds himself stepping into the shoes of the sheriff in an effort to solve a mysterious string of murders. A first novel. Reprint.

Product Description: In her novels Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons has compiled what one critic has called "a fictional oral history of female wishes [and] hopes." That tradition continues in A Cure for Dreams, a richly woven story that traces the bonds between four generations of Southern women through stories passed from mother to daughter to granddaughter...read more

In the sequel to The Train to Estelline and A Place Called Sweet Shrub, Lucy Richards Arnold moves back to a rundown West Texas farm with her husband and son and copes with drought, Depression hardship, rural disregard for education, and tragedy. Reprint. K. PW.

Product Description: Belle Appleman is back on the trail of evil-doers in Boston. Belle has left her job at the Classic Clothing Company to work in the neighborhood drugstore. When a young girl staggers into the drugstore, collapses and dies, Belle suspects foul play...read more

Product Description: A fortune in gems, star-crossed lovers, the sole survivor of a ferocious blast- these are the ingredients of a deadly game played out on the same Midwestern checkerboard where Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, and Bonnie and Clyde made their moves...read more

Product Description: The Crash of 1929, the drought, and the dust storms of the 1930s together marked a challenging decade in Midwestern and American history. These challenges tested the people of Kansas, but they fought for survival with the vigor, determination and hard work that still characterizes the Midwestern sensibility...read more

'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.

A sequel to the author's highly acclaimed Coyote Revenge visits a small Oklahoma town in the 1930s, where an unexpected crime wave baffles local sheriff Okie Dunn and turns Depression-era Vernon upside down. Reprint.

Living through the Great Depression and World War II, three young women in a small midwestern town try to sort out their lives as they deal with their problems, face their fears, and try to make their dreams come true. 75,000 first printing.

When a close friend passes away, Samuel and Julia Wortham attempt to care for the woman's ten children, a situation that is complicated by the children's absent grieving father and the possibility that the Worthams may lose their home. Original.

Product Description: Beth Curtis promised her brother and his wife that if anything should happen to them, she would raise their son as if he were her own. So when a double tragedy leads to their deaths at the height of the Great Depression, a brokenhearted Beth steps forward to keep her vow...read more

Product Description: Reflecting on three distinct periods in the unnamed narrator’s life in Guyana from the 1920s to the 1940s, this novel illustrates the various incidents that gradually change his perception of the world. After he experiences a disconcerting vision regarding one of his friends, he is rendered incapable of reviewing his own history until many years later, when this fictional account begins a voyage through his consciousness...read more

On the run from the law for reasons he keeps to himself, Jeb Nubey is talked into driving a trio of abandoned siblings to the small town of Nazareth, where a series of misfortunes causes the group to pretend they are a preaching family. Reprint.