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  Mr. Shivers

  by Robert Bennett

  It is the time of the Great Depression. The dustbowl has turned the western skies red and thousands leave their homes seeking a better life. Marcus Connelly seeks not a new life, but a death - a death for the mysterious scarred man who murdered his daughter. And soon he learns that he is not alone. Countless others have lost someone to the scarred man. They band together to track him, but as they get closer,... (more)
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  Nowhere to Call Home

  by Cynthia C. DeFelice

  Unable to cope with the financial ruin caused by the Great Depression, Frances's father has taken his own life. Sad and bewildered, Frances cashes in the railroad ticket that would have carried her to her aunt's home, trades in her dress for trousers and a cap, and hits the rails as a hobo called Frankie Blue. With Stewpot, another young hobo, as her guide, Frankie learns to sneak on and off trains, find food, and... (more)
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  The Road

  by Jack London

  "There is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I do want to explain. Unfortunately, I do not know her name, much less her present address. If her eyes should chance upon these lines, I hope she will write to me." -- From "Confession" In this entertaining... (more)
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  Riding Toward Everywhere

  by William T. Vollmann

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  Lil' Choo-Choo Johnson, Bluesman

  by Bryan Krull

  Historical fiction about blues music, and the men who played it. Fictional title character intermingles with real historical figures from the history of this bedrock American musical style.
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  Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson, Garth Williams (Illustrator)

  by Garth Williams (Illustrator) by Natalie Savage Carlson

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  A Walk Across America

  by Peter Jenkins

  Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country. "I started out searching for myself and my country," Peter Jenkins writes, "and found both." In this timeless classic, Jenkins describes how disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove him out... (more)
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  Cold Mountain

  by Charles Frazier

  A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began, while she struggles to make a living from the land. Neither knows if the other is still alive.unabridge audio cassette edition - Books on Tape; read by Charles Frazier: 10 -one and half hour tapes;isbn:... (more)
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  Fahrenheit 451

  by Ray Bradbury

  Unlike this day and age, firemen in this book start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. She would get Montag thinking a bit. Guy Montag never really cared about his job or his wife Mildred. But one day something... (more)
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  The Jungle

  by Upton Sinclair

  “Practically alone among the American writers of his generation,” wrote Edmund Wilson, “Sinclair put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them.” When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of Chicago’s stockyards and the laborer’s struggle against industry and “wage slavery.” It was an immediate... (more)
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  Into the Wild

  by Jon Krakauer

  In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How... (more)
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  King Dork

  by Frank Portman

  Tom Henderson (a.k.a. King Dork, Chi-mo, Hender-fag, and Sheepie) is a typical American high school loser until he discovers the book, The Catcher in the Rye, that will change the world as he knows it. When Tom discovers his deceased father’s copy of the Salinger classic, he finds himself in the middle of several interlocking conspiracies and at least half a dozen mysteries involving dead people, naked people,... (more)
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  P.S. Your Cat Is Dead

  by James Kirkwood

  It's New Year's Eve in New York City. Your best friend died in September, you've been robbed twice, your girlfriend is leaving you, you've lost your job...and the only one left to talk to is the gay burglar you've got tied up in the kitchen... P.S. your cat is dead. An instant classic upon its initial publication, P.S. Your Cat is Dead received widespread critical acclaim and near fanatical reader devotion. ... (more)
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  The Teddy Bear

  by David McPhail

  The little boy and his teddy bear were always together. Every night, when the little boy went to sleep, his teddy bear was right there next to him. When the little boy went on a trip, his teddy bear went toountil one terrible day when the teddy bear was left behind . . . This is the wonderful story of a friend who is lost and found and lost and found again, and of a little boy who begins to understand the meaning... (more)
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  Red Eye, Black Eye

  by K. Thor Jensen

  No job, no girlfriend, no home, no future. In 2001, cartoonist K. Thor Jensen had nothing. So he packed a bag and jumped onto a Greyhound bus, circling the United States on a 10,000-mile road trip. In this "joyously bleak handbook for the post-911 generation," Jensen tells his story and the stories of the people he meets on the way, in a tale that veers from the hilarious to the tragic. In over 300 pages of... (more)
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  Riding the Rails

  Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression

  by Errol Lincoln Uys

  "There is no feeling in the world like sitting in a side-door Pullman and watching the world go by, listening to the clickety-clack of the wheels, hearing that old steam whistle blowing for crossings and towns."--George Phillips in Riding the Rails At the height of the Great Depression, 250,000 teenage hoboes were riding the rails and roaming America. Some left home out of desperation and went looking for work... (more)
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  The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

  by W. H. Davies

  1908. Mr. Davies is no propagandist of the illusions of the middle-class tramp fancier. You never suspect him of having read Lavengro, or got his notions of nomads from Theodore Watts Dunton. He does not tell you that there is honor among tramps. On the contrary, he makes it clear that only by being too destitute to be worth robbing and murdering can a tramp insure himself against being robbed and murdered by his... (more)
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  The Dirty Parts of the Bible

  by Sam Torode

  Set in 1936, The Dirty Parts of the Bible focuses on 19-year-old Tobias Henry is stuck in the frozen hinterlands of Michigan. Tobias is obsessed with two things: God and girls. Mostly girls. But being a Baptist preacher's son, he can't escape God. When his father is blinded in a bizarre accident, Tobias rides the rails to Texas in search of a lost fortune. Along the way, he is initiated into the hobo brotherhood... (more)
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  Beggars of life, by Jim Tully

  by Jim Tully

  A bestseller in 1924, this vivid piece of outlaw history has inexplicably faded from the public consciousness. Jim Tully takes us across the seamy underbelly of pre-WWI America on freight trains, and inside hobo jungles and brothels while narrowly averting railroad bulls (cops) and wardens of order. Written with unflinching honesty and insight, Beggars of Life follows Tully from his first ride at age thirteen,... (more)
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  The Areas of My Expertise

  by Hodgman John

  In the great tradition of the American almanac, The Areas of My Expertise is a brilliant and hilarious compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom on all topics large and small. Although bestsellers such as Poor Richards Almanack and The Book of Lists were certainly valuable, they also were largely true. Here is a different kind of handy desk reference, one in which all of the... (more)