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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
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"From the author of the international bestseller The German Heiress, a gripping historical drama about a woman determined to avenge the crimes against her family, set at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. "The magnificent Anika Scott has written a lush and beautifully rendered novel that will keep you turning pages long into the night."--Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone. Vengeance is in the family, and the family...
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"During the Great Depression, wretched labor camps crop up in remote areas of the expansive pine forests throughout the American South. Destitute workers live and toil under terrible conditions to harvest pine gum, hacking into tree trunks, drawing out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling it to stills to be refined into turpentine. Subsistence living means racking up huge debts they are forced to work off, creating...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 1
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Dial Press
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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During the Depression, a rural Black family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.
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