Frank Carlson Library

"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...

The poor but proud Dunne family and their friends struggle to survive on the dust-plagued prairies of the Oklahoma Panhandle, but discover bitter disappointment in the orchards and vineyards of the so-called promised land of California.

After her father leaves to find work during the Great Depression, Kit's mother takes in boarders, and when the lockbox with the family money disappears, Kit sets out to solve the mystery. Home use only.

"Sanora Babb's novel, long out of print, is almost entirely autobiographical in origin and continues her story begun in the memoir, An Owl on Every Post. The introduction by Douglas Wixson, English Professor Emeritus, provides a great deal of historical information on the author and insights into this novel. Set in the early 1930s, it is a rich character study of the classic American individualist, Des Tannehill, and his family...The novel's depicition...

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.

"Clara's Kitchen takes readers back to a simpler, if not more difficult time, and gives everyone what they need right now: hope for the future and a nice dish of warm pasta from everyone's favorite grandmother, Clara Cannuciari, a woman who knows what's really important in life."--Page 2 of cover.