The books in this list will transport you to a small town during an earlier time in American history. From the 1800s to the Great Depression, these books will let you will experience first-hand some of the challenges faced by ordinary people living in small towns.
Set during the Great Depression, a city girl is assigned by the Federal Writers’ Project to write the first official account of the small town of Macedonia, West Virginia.
Set during the Great Depression, a city girl is assigned by the Federal Writers’ Project to write the first official account of the small town of Macedonia, West Virginia.
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Set during the Great Depression, a city girl is assigned by the Federal Writers’ Project to write the first official account of the small town of Macedonia, West Virginia.
Set during the Great Depression, a city girl is assigned by the Federal Writers’ Project to write the first official account of the small town of Macedonia, West Virginia.
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An engaging story that opens a real window to what it would have been like to be a woman in a small town devastated by fire in the 1940s.
An engaging story that opens a real window to what it would have been like to be a woman in a small town devastated by fire in the 1940s.
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An engaging story that opens a real window to what it would have been like to be a woman in a small town devastated by fire in the 1940s.
An engaging story that opens a real window to what it would have been like to be a woman in a small town devastated by fire in the 1940s.
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During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town.
During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town.
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During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town.
During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town.
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A wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town has advertised for a reliable wife. His ad is answered by a woman with her own dark secrets to hide.
A wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town has advertised for a reliable wife. His ad is answered by a woman with her own dark secrets to hide.
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A wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town has advertised for a reliable wife. His ad is answered by a woman with her own dark secrets to hide.
A wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town has advertised for a reliable wife. His ad is answered by a woman with her own dark secrets to hide.
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Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a mill town called Commonwealth votes to quarantine itself in the wake of the 1918 flu pandemic.
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a mill town called Commonwealth votes to quarantine itself in the wake of the 1918 flu pandemic.
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Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a mill town called Commonwealth votes to quarantine itself in the wake of the 1918 flu pandemic.
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a mill town called Commonwealth votes to quarantine itself in the wake of the 1918 flu pandemic.
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