Depression Era Fiction

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    • By: Sandra Brown
    • Narrated by: Victor Slezak
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,065 ratings
    • The year is 1934. With the country in the stranglehold of drought and economic depression, Ella Barron runs her Texas boardinghouse with efficiency....

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    • By: Taylor Brown
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina. Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Kristina McMorris
    • Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,078 ratings
    • 2 CHILDREN FOR SALE. In 1931, near Philadelphia, ambitious reporter Ellis Reed photographs the gut-wrenching sign posted beside a pair of siblings on a farmhouse porch....

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    • A Depression Era Tale
    • By: Charlotte Whitney
    • Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • It's a boring, hardscrabble life for three sisters growing up on a Michigan farm in the throes of the Great Depression. But when young Nellie, digging for pirate treasure, discovers the tiny blue-black hand of a dead baby, rumors begin to fly....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Anya Seton
    • Narrated by: Maya Beechwood
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Anya Seton's Foxfire makes the desert Southwest of the Great Depression come alive in all its rich strangeness and passion-filled glory....

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    • By: Suzette D. Harrison
    • Narrated by: Jordan Frazier, Rachel Handshaw
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Fifteen-year-old Faith Wilson takes her little sister Hope’s hand. In worn-down shoes, they walk through the choking heat of the Dust Bowl, toward a new life in California. But when a storm blows in, the girls are separated from their parents....

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    • By: Skyler Schrempp
    • Narrated by: Skyler Schrempp
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Sandlot meets Esperanza Rising in this middle grade historical novel about a strong-willed girl who finds her voice in a tale of moxie, peaches, and determination to thrive despite the odds.

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    • Great Depression Era Emotional Drama of Family Ties and Survival, Coming of Age Romance, Multicultural Relationships
    • By: TAMMY LOCKAMY
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • THE RETURN OF MARY After fourteen exceptionally long years, Mary Bentley, who was missing since the age of five has at last been found by her mum ...

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    • By: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Jerry Farden
    • Series: Cannery Row, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,447 ratings
    • Here is Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival....

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    • By: Jerry Borrowman
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Artie Call can’t get a break. Orphaned during the Great Depression, Artie finds himself leading a life of crime, stealing food, and hanging with ...

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    • By: Rachel Hauck
    • Narrated by: Windy Lanzl
    • Series: Heart's Bend, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 386 ratings
    • It's the early 1930s, but Cora Scott is walking in stride as a career woman after having inherited her great aunt's wedding shop in Heart's Bend, Tennessee....

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    • By: Mary Monroe
    • Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss, Tracey Conyer Lee
    • Series: Lexington, Alabama, Book 3
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 337 ratings
    • Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe delivers the latest thrillingly scandal-filled novel in her Depression-era saga of a church-going lady and her oh-so-upstanding husband racing to cover up their many sins—and gambling on one scheme too many....

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    • By: Monica Chenault-Kilgore
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Birdie Jennings dreams of a big life beyond her small town of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky—beyond her mundane job tying tobacco leaves at Wrights Factory, beyond her position as the baby of the family....

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    • A Step by Step Guide to Acquiring, Organizing, and Cooking Food Storage
    • By: Karen Morris
    • Narrated by: Karen Morris
    • Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • While everything around us is in disarray and filled with confusion, you can take control of this area of your life and know that your family will have plenty of food, no matter what your circumstances....

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    • Lexington, Alabama, Book 4
    • By: Mary Monroe
    • Narrated by: Shari Peele
    • Series: Lexington, Alabama, Book 4
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 390 ratings
    • Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have been getting in—and out—of trouble by pretending to be each other. Yet underneath, they couldn’t be more different.

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    • By: Sadie Cuffe, Sophie Cuffe
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • In depression era Mercy’s Gate, Martin is struggling to keep it together for his students, his business, and his town. But there are no prospects...

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    • A Novel
    • By: Cedric The Entertainer
    • Narrated by: Cedric The Entertainer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • The first novel from one of the original Kings of Comedy, Cedric “The Entertainer,” Flipping Boxcars is an engaging and entertaining crime caper that is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities struggling to get by during the Depression and World War II....

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