Leaving Dixon's Crossing - Brantley, Janet
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1941 - A liberated ROSIE the Riveter! The last few years have been hard on everyone in Dixon's Crossing, Arkansas. But for Mae Johnson, things are looking up. * She's managed to graduate high school, despite the rigors of the Depression. * She has a plan to escape the debilitating sharecropping life that would surely turn her into a copy of her hard-working, old-before-her-time mama. * The exciting city of Texarkana is calling to her like a siren song - and the pull is strong! So - what could go wrong? SHE'S ABOUT TO FIND OUT! When Pearl Harbor sucks America into another World War, she finds…mehr

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1941 - A liberated ROSIE the Riveter! The last few years have been hard on everyone in Dixon's Crossing, Arkansas. But for Mae Johnson, things are looking up. * She's managed to graduate high school, despite the rigors of the Depression. * She has a plan to escape the debilitating sharecropping life that would surely turn her into a copy of her hard-working, old-before-her-time mama. * The exciting city of Texarkana is calling to her like a siren song - and the pull is strong! So - what could go wrong? SHE'S ABOUT TO FIND OUT! When Pearl Harbor sucks America into another World War, she finds her world turned upside down, with two ammo plants taking over Texarkana. "Fun and games" turns into serious war work. Can Mae really build bullets, grenades, and bombs without killing herself or someone else? Plunked down in the middle of a society in upheaval, with men going off to war and women going off to work, how will she handle the changes? And with racial tensions on the rise, how will Mae face her own prejudices? And what of her vow not to marry young? The stakes are higher now. Should she wed her good-guy best friend Oliver before he ships out? Stability, of a sort. Or perhaps bad-boy Frank, the ex-boyfriend she still loves, but who will bring nothing but uncertainty? Or neither? Maybe forget about love altogether! Whatever - There's war work to be done!
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After living most of her life near Texarkana, Arkansas/Texas, Janet Brantley recently moved to Ocean Springs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Her first novel, Murder by Any Other Name, was set here in 2015. Janet had a decades-long career in education, during which she taught Social Studies and Special Education to kids from Kindergarten to 12th grade-sometimes even at the same time. During the 1990s she went back to school herself and earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of North Texas (Denton), after which she taught at Texarkana College and Texas A&M University-Texarkana. Interviews she conducted for her dissertation led her to eventually begin work on her current series, of which this book is the first. You can find more info and some of Janet's other writings at: http: //www.janetbrantleywrites.comYou can contact Janet at janetbrantleywriter@gmail.com