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Barcode30053003833707
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoF DALL
Title The hired man : a novel / Sandra Dallas.
Author Dallas, Sandra, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult Fiction
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StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
 Paris-Bourbon30053003833707F DALL3/31/2026 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Dallas, Sandra, author.
Title Statement The hired man : a novel / Sandra Dallas.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : St. Martin's Press, 2026.
Physical Description 305 pages ; 22 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier.
Summary, Etc. "The Dust Bowl sweeps a handsome stranger into a small Colorado town to dangerous effect. 1937. It's been seven years since the dust storms started in Colorado. Folks can barely remember a time when the clouds were filled with rain instead of dirt, and when the fields were green instead of brown. High school student Martha Helen Kessler and her family are luckier than most; they still eke out a living from the land. Even so, evidence of the Dust Bowl's grim impact on families, especially on the women who bear the brunt of their husbands' frustration and their children's hunger, is everywhere. When Martha Helen's compassionate mother insists they take in Otis Hobbs, a handsome drifter who saves a local boy from a vicious storm, she quickly discovers a darker side to their rural community. Suspicion, jealousy, and prejudice grip their neighbors - and emotions reach a frenzy after Martha Helen's best friend, Frankie, disappears and is then found murdered. Ultimately, Martha Helen is forced to make sense of her conflicting feelings and loyalties in order to help find retribution and to reconcile the difference between the law and justice. Full of period detail and Sandra Dallas's trademark focus on the lives of women, The Hired Man entertains and ultimately surprises"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Drifters Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Fiction. lcgft.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction. lcgft.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft.

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