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Where Courage Began: Velma's Story

A blizzard rages outside a ramshackle Iowa farmhouse in February of 1921. Five-year-old Velma and her older sister stand near a glowing Isinglass stove charged with minding their two younger brothers.…

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Leora's Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression

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They Never Threw Anything Away: Memories of the Great Depression by Americans Who Lived It

The parallels to the present are an international pandemic killing nearly 700,000 Americans, followed by a booming stock markets and political turmoil….then years of unimaginable misery for so many – …

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Lora's Stories: Appalachian Child

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Uphill All the Way: A Memoir of a Depression Era Family, Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs

“It was near the end of February 1944. A light snow was falling as our family of six and a dog started out in our 1935 Ford. The tires were almost bald and there was a third of the steering wheel miss…

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The Red Road: Book One of the McGinn Family Saga

First Place Winner, Fall 2023 Historical Fiction

There’s no greater duty than family…

In the heart of rural Maine, in the midst of the Great Depression and the final year of Prohibition, the McGinn fami…

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This Funny Life

“We never know, do we? We never know how many days we’ll be given or how we’ll go. There are no guarantees. Only hopes and dreams.”

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A Dream In The Wilderness (The Wilderness Saga Book 1)

If you liked the poignancy and wholesome nature of “The Promise,” you will LOVE “A Dream In the Wilderness.”

Unable to find a teaching position in the flooded job market that is New York City, twenty-o…

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A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming Ranch Family

“Outstanding memoir . . . as well as closely observed, poignant, and wistful."—C. J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three-Inch Teeth

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Tobacco Rose

South Georgia 1955. Racial tensions lead to riots in the South. An old black woman named Rosie and a young white girl called Clementine are in danger of losing their lives in a flood. Caught up in swi…

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