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...

"After teaching in a 1920s mining town in western Canada, Beth Thatcher no longer feels at home among her wealthy family in the East, and her heart is torn between two very different worlds"--Provided by publisher.

As he nation moves toward civil war, one resident of Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania has her live irrevocably changed. Dorthea Granger is asked by her uncle--shortly before his violent death--to stitch an unusual quilt. When she learns the quilt contains hidden clues for the Underground Railroad, Dorthea makes a brave decision. she will put her own life at risk to continue the work that cost her uncle his life.

Traveling by covered wagon, Marty and her husband come to the frontier prairie with bright dreams of a new homestead. But her husband is killed in an accident, and Marty, pregnant and alone, now has nowhere to go. When widower Clark Davis offers her a home in exchange for caring for his little girl, Marty knows she must accept. But acceptance means she must marry Clark, and become a real mother for little Missy.

Ruby's most recent boarder is timid schoolteacher Pearl Hossfuss. To avoid an arranged marriage, Pearl deserts her home in Chicago to teach in Little Missouri. Ther she befriends Ruby and falls in love with young carpenter Carl Hegland. But when her father threatens to find her and take her back home, Pearl turns to God for the strength to stand up for herself and follow her heart.