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Set in Depression-era America, The Giver of Stars is the story of five extraordinary women and their journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. The women deliver library books to people in the mountains of Kentucky during the Great Depression , a real-life program launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor ...
The Lantern Bearers is a historical novel for children by Rosemary Sutcliff, first published by Oxford in 1959 with illustrations by Charles Keeping.Set in Roman Britain during the 5th century, it is the story of a British Roman's life after the final withdrawal of Roman troops (around 410).
The story draws from Collier's early life in rural Maryland during the Great Depression. Its themes include poverty, maturity and the relationship between innocence and compassion. [ 1 ] While teaching literature at the Community College of Baltimore County , she published "Marigolds" in Negro Digest , and it won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks ...
Depression is bad for anyone. But it’s worse for women. Learn to spot the signs of depression in women and find the treatment you need.
Tales of the Depression are woven with a common thread: Even though most people had very little, those with a little more helped those with a little less. Families who had fallen on hard times ...
Reasons to Stay Alive is a novel and memoir written by novelist Matt Haig, published on 5 March 2015.It is based on his experiences of living with depression and anxiety disorder, which he suffered from the age of 24.
Thus the five chapters of the book correspond to denial (ideological obfuscation in the form of mass media, New Age obscurantism) , anger (violent conflict, particularly religious fundamentalism), bargaining (political economy), depression (the “post-traumatic subject”) and acceptance (new radical political movements).
The book was a New York Times bestseller, [13] and was included in the best seller lists of the Los Angeles Times [14] and USA Today. [15] It has a Goodreads average rating of 4.23. [16] Kirkus Reviews calls the narrative voice of Book Woman "engaging", and praises how well-researched the novel is, illuminating the history of 1930s Kentucky ...