Unquomonk Press: 3 books

Spring - 1917. War is raging in Europe and America has just cast its lot against the German war machine. Back home, the nation is reeling with social strife: workers marching for their rights, immigrants demanding fair treatment, suffragettes clamoring for the vote. In Holyoke, Massachusetts,...

Trolley Days is the story of two boys growing up in a great New England industrial city in the nineteen-teens. Jack Bernard, son of a mill worker who emigrated from Canada, is shy and socially a bit awkward; Tom Wellington, son of the mill owner, is self-assured and smooth-talking. For all their differences,...

September, 1917. America has entered the Great War, the War to End All Wars. While young Americans by the hundreds of thousands are marching into battle in Europe, back home the nation’s social fabric is being torn asunder by patriotic fervor and xenophobia. When two German-American classmates...