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1) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
MY ANTONIA is the wistful tale of an immigrant girl from Bohemia, who has settled in Nebraska. Narrated by Antonia's childhood friend Jim Burden, the novel draws heavily upon Willa Cather's own formative years, as well as, through the persona of Jim, Cather's experience of New York, where she worked as Editor of the MCCLURE magazine. MY ANTONIA is the third in a sequence of Cather's works which deal with immigrant settlers in the USA. Writing as a...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska ... and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher can't let go.
3) O pioneers!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not brought peace, as passion and love intervene.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home. When Perry moves to the "outside" world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a multi-generational family saga, set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sandhills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee--an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land"--
Author
Series
Quilt chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
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.
10) The road home
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Five members of the Northridge family narrate the epic of their history on the Nebraska plains.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
A youth's inability to control his temper ruins his life. After shooting a man for sleeping with his mother, Randall Hunsacker leaves Utah for a small town in Nebraska. Things start looking up when he becomes a football hero and marries a local belle, but his temper gets the better of him, he abuses her and she leaves him.
Author
Series
Journey to the white clouds volume Prequel
Publisher
Five Star Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Surviving on a dirt-poor farm in 1850s Nebraska tests Paul Steele's confidence in himself. His deceitful younger brother lives on the fertile and thriving family farm while Paul struggles to raise a family in a sod hut. Paul and his wife, Ana, meet adversity head-on and teach their children the value of honesty, loyalty and dedication. Their eldest son, Simon, learns from the hardships and triumphs, but his best friend, Buell, is very different, yet...
15) Fields of bounty
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lilac Nielsen must learn to balance her new courtship with the young reverend and her pursuit of another dream -- the publication of her artwork in a New York newspaper. But when a family crisis back in Ohio shakes the Nielsen sisters, can they continue the new life they've begun in Nebraska? And will Lilac be prepared for what God has in store for her future?"--
17) Fallen creed
Author
Series
Ryder Creed novels volume 7
Publisher
Prairie Wind Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ryder Creed rescues abandoned dogs and turns them into heroes. But this time, it's Creed who may need rescuing when a madman leads him and Agent Maggie O'Dell on a gut-wrenching scavenger hunt.
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep the family homestead running, even if she must do it alone. When she discovers that Isaac McTavish has feelings for her, she pushes him away to protect her heart. But how can she build the life she's always dreamed of when unexpected dangers arrive?"--
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"This historial epic, author James Scott Bell's most ambitious novel, spins a story of war, murder, faith, romance, and drama from small town Nebraska in the early 1900's to French battlefields of Word War I to post-war Hollywood"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Andy Carter was happy. He had a solid job. He ran 5Ks for charity. He was living a nice, safe Midwestern existence. And then his wife left him for a handsome paramedic down the street. We're All Damaged begins after Andy has lost his job, ruined his best friend's wedding, and moved to New York City, where he lives in a tiny apartment with an angry cat named Jeter that isn't technically his. But before long he needs to go back to Omaha to say good-bye...
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