Product Description: Boom times came to the forgotten little southwestern town of Chamisaville just as the rest of America was in the Great Depression. They came when a rattletrap bus loaded with stolen dynamite blew sky high, leaving behind a giant gushing hot spring...read more

The classic tale of a female Huck Finn, Peter Bogdanovich's film version of the book was nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in the darkest days of the Great Depression, this is the timeless story of an 11-year-old orphan's rollicking journey through the Deep South with a con man who just might be her father. Brimming with humor, pathos, and an irresistible narrative energy, this is American storytelling at its finest. Paper Moon is tough, vibrant, and ripe for rediscovery.

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 a run-down farm in 1935, over the July 4th weekend, two couples, their two little girls, and the headmistress of the girls' progressive school each face a crisis, revelation, or turning point through a network of understandings and misunderstandings

Product Description: Raines's coming-of-age novel, set in depression-era Alabama, combinesromance and tragedy to evoke a time and place distant in memory but alivein the great tradition of American storytelling. In 1932 in Milo, Alabama, Prohibition was on, the depressionwas on, Franklin D...read more

In the late 1930s, a young man who has been turned out of his home discovers his destiny on the vast Adirondack estate of one of the nation's wealthiest men, where several extraordinary men and women contribute to his education. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

During the forty years in which a rural southwestern backwater is transformed into a boomtown and industrial mecca, the townspeople try to adjust to their loss of land and heritage.

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.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and columnist for the 'Washington Post' presents a first novel, limning a vision of small-town America in the Midwest in the late thirties

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

Acel Stecker, an unemployed musician, searches for work during the Great Depression and encounters breadlines, hobo jungles, and violent demonstrations

Dick Kettleson, his young son Dickie, carnival stunt man Stu Modig, and an African lion taken from his family live proud lives but finally touch each other in a way that changes each permanently

Tells the stories of a graduate history student in the thirties, a long engagement, a reader changed by a book, lonely bachelors, and a chivalrous office worker

During the Depression, Cass McKay, a young man from Texas, is forced to ride the rails, live in hobo jungles, and search for handouts

When his irresponsible younger brother dies in an accident, Hiram MacHugh, a bachelor and justice of the peace of Hallapoosa, Florida, takes in his young niece and nephew

As the Harrington family struggle to remain united during the Great Depression, they face additional hardships in the form of drought and a series of mysterious fires

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

Max Meyer, a Jew from New York, Ellis Warne, a doctor's son, Birch Tucker, an Arkansas farmer, and Jefferson Canfield, the son of a Black sharecropper, return from World War I with changed expectations

Product Description:      The Least One, published originally in 1967, portrays a white sharecropping family during the Great Depression and is based on Borden Deal’s experiences growing up on a small farm in northeastern Mississippi. “My own memory produced a flood of material,” said the author...read more

Product Description: The Shiloh Legacy series covers the lives of four young soldiers and their families through these great events: the end of World War I in France, the return of the soldiers to America, the Roaring Twenties, the stock-market crash, the resulting Great Depression, and the rebuilding of lives that must follow...read more

When a violent dust storm leaves their mother dead and their family farm in ruins, Laurie Field sets off across the United States, where she encounters unspeakable poverty and learns to endure her own loss