Arcadia Public Library

"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...

A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...

When an unexpected event turns Mae Demaray's life upside down, she retreats into herself

"Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Macedonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture...

Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.

Galveston, Texas, July 1932. Evie Grace Devlin come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is thwarted, Evie is swept into the world of dance marathons. All that she has been denied-- a family, a purpose, even love-- waits for her there in the place she dreads most: the spotlight. Finding work as an unregistered nurse looking after a troupe of marathon dancers, Evie learns that there truly...

When her father killed himself after the stock market crash of 1929, Kitty Pangborn took a job as a secretary for Los Angeles P.I. Dex Theroux. As the city prepares for the 1932 Olympic games, Kitty tries to discover who is threatening a young equestrienne aiming to be the first horsewoman to compete at the Olympic level. Kitty finds herself back in the social class she was raised to, only now she's expected to come in the service entrance.

In 1930s Depression-era Hollywood, Kitty Pangborn gets caught in the middle when her boss, P.I. Dexter Theroux, is asked to help exonerate screen idol Laird Wyndham, a prime suspect in the suspicious death of a young starlet, especially since Theroux already has a client who has hired him to prove Wyndham's guilt.

"In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane--a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother. His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight lessons. As his airplane takes shape, and the young cousins...