Headin' for Better Times

Headin' for Better Times
Author: Duane Damon
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822517412

Explores the Depression-era art scene across the United States, including the new "talking pictures," plays, paintings, posters, photographs, and songs.

Fleeing to Freedom on the Underground Railroad

Fleeing to Freedom on the Underground Railroad
Author: Elaine Landau
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822534907

Uses letters, newspaper articles, biographies, and autobiographies to tell the Underground Railroad's stories of pain and courage.

Into the Land of Freedom

Into the Land of Freedom
Author: Meg Greene
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822546900

Discusses the changes faced by African Americans after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, describing how families tried to reunite, find homes, and jobs.

Declaring Independence

Declaring Independence
Author: Brandon Marie Miller
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2004-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822512752

Containing period paintings, illustrations, and writings, an addition to a historical series looks at what life was like for people in America during the American Revolution.

Bootleg Broadway

Bootleg Broadway
Author: Diana Rubino
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2015-06-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509201297

It’s 1932. Prohibition rages, the Depression ravages, and Billy McGlory comes of age whether he wants to or not. Musical and adventurous, Billy dreams of having his own ritzy supper club and big band. On the eve of his marriage to the pregnant Prudence, the shifty “businessman” Rosario Ingovito offers him all that and more. Fame, fortune, his own Broadway musical—it’s all his for the taking, despite Pru’s opposition to Rosie’s ventures. Meanwhile, Pru’s artistic career gains momentum and their child is born. Can anything go wrong for Billy? Only when he gets in way over his head does he stop to wonder how his business partner really makes his millions, but by then it’s far too late…

The Fight for Peace

The Fight for Peace
Author: Ted Gottfried
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761329329

Chronicles the efforts of anti-war activists throughout history from the Revolutionary War to the recent conflict in Iraq.

Better Times - Facet Ii

Better Times - Facet Ii
Author: Gary B. Boyd
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496915879

From 32nd Century Wyoming, Spavin Lawson led a group of one-thousand refugees from the bunker that housed Resurgent City in a search for better times. The 22nd Century Government bunker had exceeded the design specifications of its creators thanks to the leadership of its first elected Mayor. A small city had expanded and prospered inside the mountain. The original population of less than two hundred souls had grown into nearly five-thousand. Unfortunately, the ancient nuclear power plant that provided the people the power to survive had leaked radiation for generations. The net effect of the radiation and the cave environment had altered the population. The people had developed genetic albinism with eyes well suited to the dimly lit cave city. Small in stature yet curious and adaptive, the Tribe followed the tall, dark-haired man and his wife without question. The outside world was foreign and frightening but within days, the people realized that The Judges of Resurgent City had held them in a grasp of religious fervor not based on factuality or reality. The journey they embarked upon was destined to lead them to the coast of Texas. Spavin Lawson, physicist by training, believed the coast would provide better opportunities for the otherwise doomed population. He reckoned that South Texas coast would allow the petite, pale people to re-establish the human race on Earth. That location was further from the immediate geological and environmental effects of the Yellowstone super volcano eruption that had induced a global deep freeze ten centuries earlier. His greatest concerns for Humankind were the long term effects of the high radiation exposures and the lack of genetic diversity.

Journalists at Risk

Journalists at Risk
Author: George Sullivan
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761327455

Covers reporters' roles and risks during war time; the issue of censorship; and how their jobs have changed with each conflict since the Civil War.