The Four Winds Reading Map
If you liked The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah because of its strong female lead and Depression-era setting, we have some more suggestions we think you'll like!
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The Four Windsby Kristin Hannah Texas, 1934. Elsa Martinelli had finally found the life she'd yearned for. A family, a home and a livelihood on a farm on the Great Plains. But when drought threatens all she and her community hold dear, Elsa's world is shattered to the winds. |
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The Sisters of Summit Avenueby Lynn Cullen Raising four daughters and running her family's Depression-era Indiana farm for eight years after her husband is infected by a devastating sleeping sickness, a woman reconnects with her estranged, childless sister amid dark family secrets. |
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The Giver of Starsby Jojo Moyes English bride Alice Wright volunteers for Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library in small-town Kentucky, joining a group of independent women whose commitment to their job transforms the community and their relationships. |
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Promiseby Minrose Gwin Barely surviving an F5 tornado that rips through her 1936 Mississippi hometown, an African-American laundress and great-grandmother searches for her family among the catastrophe's survivors while bonding with the traumatized teen daughter of a despised white judge. |
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The Last Balladby Wiley Cash Inspired by actual events, a tale set in the Appalachian foothills of 1929 North Carolina follows the struggles of an ordinary woman to reclaim her dignity and rights in a labor mill, where she earns a paltry salary before risking her family and future to join a union. |
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This Tender Landby William Kent Krueger Fleeing the Depression-era school for Native American children who have been taken from their parents, four orphans share a summer marked by struggling farmers, faith healers and lost souls. |
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Sold on a Mondayby Kristina McMorris Inspired by an actual newspaper photograph that stunned the nation, Sold on a Monday is a powerful novel of love, redemption, and the unexpected paths that bring us home. |
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The Victory Gardenby Rhys Bowen Engaged to an Australian pilot during World War I, Emily volunteers to tend the neglected grounds of a Devonshire estate where she finds inspiration and support in an herbalist's long-forgotten journals. |
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Maid: hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to surviveby Stephanie Land An economic hardship journalist describes the years she worked in low-pay domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them. |
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The Women in the Castleby Jessica Shattuck At the end of World War II, Marianne von Lingenfels offers shelter to two widows of fallen resistance fighters and their children in a formerly majestic Bavarian castle that was once host to German aristocrats. |