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In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan's National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate

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Finalist for the 2019 Oklahoma Book Awards, Fiction

"The murder investigation allows Loewenstein to probe into the lives of proud people who would never expose their troubles to strangers. People like John Hodge, the town's most respected lawyer, who knocks his wife around, and kindhearted Etha Jennings, who surreptitiously delivers home-cooked meals to the hobo camp outside town because one of the young Civilian Conservation Corps workers

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"Dust Bowl memoir of a family who held on tenant-farming in Oklahoma years after their relatives westered to California. Focuses on Henshaw's father, who would not leave until he could pay his way to California, and on her parents' strong marriage and how it sustained the family of eleven"--Provided by publisher.

Tale of a boy in Dust Bowl America, who must deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, rising tensions, and a shadowy illness. His world of desperation turns into unexpected courage.

Ten-year-old Mexican American Rosa Sanchez wants an education more than anything, but when her teachers leave Texas in search of a better life, how will her dream come true?

"Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, on the windowsills, coating the animals, on her children's cracked lips. The Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the storms of the Dust Bowl descend. Annie's fragile young son suffers from dust pneumonia, her headstrong daughter is choosing a dangerous path out of Mulehead, and her husband is plagued by disturbing dreams of rain. As Annie, desperate for an escape of her own, flirts...

Learn about one of nature's most catastrophic events in graphic novel format.

"The closer he got, the brighter that red became. It was a rose-a rose that had no earthly business growing there, right in the middle of all that dust." Just as Jeremiah Goodbye is set to meet his fate in the electric chair, he is given a second chance at life. With the flip of a coin, he decides to return to his home town of Nowhere, Oklahoma, to settle the score with his twin brother Josiah. But upon his escape, he enters a world he doesn't recognize-one...

Eleven-year-old Robert is the only one who can help when a mysterious stranger arrives, performing tricks and promising to bring rain, at the same time children begin to disappear from a dust bowl farm town in Saskatchewan in the 1930s.