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The Great Depression
Adult Fiction and Non-Fiction about or set during the Great Depression.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Four Winds
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
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The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942
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Mitch Troutman (Goodreads Author)
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The Secret Place of Thunder (Librarians of Willow Hollow, #4)
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Growing Up
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Tobacco Road
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Hearts on Lonely Mountain (Librarians of Willow Hollow #3)
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The Woods
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Ronald Geigle (Goodreads Author)
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This Tender Land
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William Kent Krueger (Goodreads Author)
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The Saints of Swallow Hill
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Donna Everhart (Goodreads Author)
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
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Amity Shlaes (Goodreads Author)
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
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A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness & a Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
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Into the Free (Into the Free, #1)
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Julie Cantrell (Goodreads Author)
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The Giver of Stars
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Jojo Moyes (Goodreads Author)
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Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression
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Tortilla Flat
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The Pearl
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Harpsong (Volume 1) (Stories & Storytellers Series)
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Makhorka: The Green Cigarette
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Gitel's Freedom
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Sold on a Monday
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West with Giraffes
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Lynda Rutledge (Goodreads Author)
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Wingwalkers
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Taylor Brown (Goodreads Author)
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The Great Crash 1929
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The Great Depression: A Diary
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
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The Road from Gap Creek
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Last Dance on the Starlight Pier
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The Unknown Beloved
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Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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Stormy Weather
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The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History
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Ironweed
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The Chosen (Reuven Malther, #1)
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin & the Great Depression
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The Persian Pickle Club
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North River
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The Remarkable Life of Kitty McInerney: How a Poor Irish Immigrant Raised 17 Children in Great Depression New York
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Palisades Park
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
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Kirstin Downey (Goodreads Author)
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Daddy Was a Number Runner
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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Bound for Glory
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George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel
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The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army
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Depression Carpenter
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Java Davis (Goodreads Author)
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Forget Me Not
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Fraulein M.
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The Patriots
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The Rolling Bootlegs (Baccano!, #1)
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The Bluest Eye
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Farm Boy, City Girl: From Gene to Miss Gina
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Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings
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Kings in Disguise
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The Raffle Baby
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Heart of the Garfish
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The Lonely Hearts Hotel
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Mary Coin
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Eleanor and Franklin
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Machine Dreams
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New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
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The Superman Chronicles, Vol. 1
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Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression
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Voices of the Dust Bowl
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A Baby on the Doorstep (The Orphans of Hope House #2)
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
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The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol 1)
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I Love to Tell the Story (Librarians of Willow Hollow #2)
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Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies
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Weevils In The Flour: An Oral Record Of The 1930's Depression In Australia
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Dressed by Iris
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Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
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A Christmas Memory
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Finding Hope (Librarians of Willow Hollow #0.5)
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Wonderland Creek
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The Hired Man
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Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression
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Errol Lincoln Uys (Goodreads Author)
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Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939
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Everyday Use
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940
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A Strand of Hope
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Twopence to Cross the Mersey
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
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Die Freistatt
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The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression
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Ben Montgomery (Goodreads Author)
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Prize Women
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Sunny, Ward of the State
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Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters From the Forgotten Man
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Robert S. McElvaine (Editor)
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Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America
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David A. Taylor (Goodreads Author)
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In All Good Faith
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Liza Nash Taylor (Goodreads Author)
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Bannock, Beans and Black Tea: Memories of a Prince Edward Island Childhood in the Great Depression
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625 friends
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