Tobacco USA: The Industry Behind the Smoke Curtain

Heyes, Eileen

Eileen Heyes

Twenty-First Century Books (CT)

New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1932. Kid actors Billy O'Dwyer and Virginia Grady are taking an intermission from the fast life in New York City, where they helped solve a murder but managed to shut down the movie studio they worked for. While living with Billy's family, they plan to put on a show for the neighborhood kids. But things don't unfold according to their script. Enter, stage right: a creepy skeleton, a missing treasure, and two squabbling would-be heirs. When Billy and Virginia set out to locate the treasure, they find themselves center stage in a tangled family drama of rivalry and deceit. The cast of characters includes a hobo with big ambitions, a crooked cop gone straight, and a "fisherman" who hauls ashore something much more valuable than fish. They know somebody's putting on an act. What they don't know is that a repeat performance as detectives could bring down the final curtain - on themselves....

O'Dwyer & Grady Starring in Tough Act to Follow (Aladdin Mysteries)

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

Aladdin

A behind-the-scenes look at the tobacco industry and the recent political turmoil that has surrounded it examines the changes that may be coming about in the future and what effect those changes will have.

Tobacco U.S.A.: The Industry Behind the Smoke Curtain

Twenty-First Century Books

Young readers can get a taste of farm life in the North Carolina Piedmont through Bountiful Red Acres. The story chronicles a year in the lives of two neighboring families--one Black and one White--moving from season to season through the year 1900. Despite the racial inequalities built into American life by both law and custom, the Sawyers and Hauser families share an abiding friendship as they rear children, tend crops, and build community. Author Eileen Heyes and artist Dare Coulter bring these real Surry County families to life for readers, offering a vibrant look at neighbors caring for each other as they force a living out of the red clay soil that is known today as Horne Creek Farm State Historic Site.

Bountiful Red Acres: Two Farms, Two Families, and a Year on the Land

Teen & Young Adult

Historical Fiction

North Carolina Office of Archives and History

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