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1) O Pioneers!
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Series
Language
English
Description
O Pioneers by Willa Cather is story of a family of Swedish immigrants who settle in a fictional town in Nebraska. When her father dies, Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm and is determined to see it succeed, even at a time when many immigrant families are leaving the prairie.
2) My Antonia
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Series
Language
English
Description
A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest
This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers,...
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Language
English
Description
Timothy Schaffert has created his most memorable character yet in Essie, an octogenarian obituary writer for her family's small town newspaper. When a young country girl is reported to be missing, perhaps whisked away by an itinerant aerial photographer, Essie stumbles onto the story of her life. Or, it all could be simply a hoax, or a delusion, the child and child-thief invented from the desperate imagination of a lonely, lovelorn woman. Either way,...
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Series
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English
Description
Sabine-twenty years a magician's assistant to her handsome, charming husband-is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a final trick, a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident but now revealed as very much alive and well. Named as heirs in his will, they enter Sabine's life and set her on an adventure of unraveling his secrets, from sunny Los Angeles to the windswept plains of Nebraska, that will...
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Series
Quilt chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Emilie Rhodes was taught to think for herself, but doing so makes her want to write the "real news." This offends her newspaper editor father, who fires her. When Emilie begins writing anonymously for her father's competition, she finds herself falling in love with lecturer and dramatist Noah Shaw. Noah in turn seeks answers to stories tied with his grandmother's quilts, even though the truth may lead to brokenness-- or hope and healing.
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Pine Ridge portraits volume 1
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English
Description
Best-selling author Stephanie Grace Whitson is a two-time Christy Award finalist. Deep in Lakota Sioux territory in 1878, a torched farmstead is discovered by American soldiers. Hidden in the cellar is Laina Gray-delirious and pregnant. Nursed back to health by a woman who trusts God's healing hand, Laina recovers but continues to closely guard her terrible secrets.
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Series
Pine Ridge portraits volume 2
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Grace Whitson is an ECPA best-selling author and two-time Christy Award finalist. Watchers on the Hill is the sequel to the immensely popular historical novel Secrets on the Wind (K1088). Charlotte Valentine Bishop has buried her husband. Now she and her son Will are embarking on a trip back to Fort Robinson, Nebraska to make a new home for themselves with Charlotte's father. Unfortunately, the transition doesn't go as smoothly as Charlotte...
9) A lost lady
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Language
English
Description
To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as man, Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless, dazzling and pathetic: a woman whose charm is intertwined with terrifying...
10) Dandelions
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory.
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Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher arrives in a Nebraska town and becomes suspicious of the Duncans, a controlling local clan, when he starts work on the unsolved case of a missing child and uncovers the Duncans involvement in a criminal food chain.
13) Elsie's bird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
14) Gratefully yours
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000, c1997
Language
English
Description
In 1923, nine-year-old Hattie rides the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska where she must adjust to a strange new life with a farmer and his wife, who is despondent over the loss of her two children.
15) Hank's story
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Hank, having come west on an orphan train to live with a disagreeable couple on a farm in Nebraska, tries to endure his miserable existence and thinks about running away, as his older brother did.
16) Betting on you
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Language
English
Description
When they first meet, Bailey and Charlie cannot stand one another, but when they met a year later as coworkers, Charlie secretly bets a colleague he can get Bailey to go out with him, and their relationship gets more complicated as they get closer and closer.
17) Together apart
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1888 in Prairie Hill, Nebraska, a few months after barely surviving a deadly blizzard that has killed two of her brothers, fourteen-year-old Hannah goes to work at the home of a wealthy widow with progressive social ideas, where she finds Isaac, w
20) Fire storm
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Series
Kaely Quinn profiler volume 2
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English
Description
"When FBI profiler Kaely Quinn visits Nebraska to care for her ailing mother, she notices suspicious connections among a series of local fires and calls on her partner, Noah Hunter, to help find the arsonist. They embark on a twisted path to catch a mad man intent on Kaely's death"--
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