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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2015]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market and#x2013; the system that controls money in America and#x2013; plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their jobs, their houses, or both and ended up in shantytowns called "Hoovervilles" named for the president at the time of the crash....
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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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Growing up in the Bronx, Mary Higgins Clark knew she wanted to be a writer. While Growing up in the depression, her father dies and her mother opens up the house for boarders and places a discreet sign next to the front door that reads, "Furnished Rooms, Kitches Privileges." The family struggles to make ends meet, through lifes hard lessons she begins writing stories at the kitchen table--all these experiences figure into Kitchen Privileges.
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English
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Emma Trimpany is just seventeen when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days, and when the government removes the babies from their francophone parents, making them wards of the British king, Emma signs on as their nurse. Over six thousand daily visitors come to ogle the identical "Quints"...
17) Shiloh autumn
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Publisher
T. Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The Tucker and Canfield families are weathering the stock market crash just fine on their Arkansas cotton farm, but the Memphis panic and disaster of October 1, 1931 send them into a tailspin and the troubles seem to keep piling up as they try to hold on to their faith in God.
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