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Depressions 1929 Great Plains Droughts Great Plains History 20th century Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Dust storms Great Plains History 20th century Great Plains History 20th century Great Plains Social conditions 20th century Social conditions Social history United States Working poorEgan, Timothy
Summary: "The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people who held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 978 EGACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 978.03 EGACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US EganWilliams, Emma.
Summary: In August, 2000, Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East and West...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, EMMA WILSummary: "A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2023