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My Ántonia
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Willa Cather
This novel about the friendship between two Nebraska children, Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda is considered Cather's masterpiece. The fortunes of the two families are opposed: the Burdens thrive while the Shimerdas decline, a downfall that culminates in the suicide of Antonia's father, which forces the girl to work in the fields and then as a ...
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O Pioneers
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Willa Cather's O PIONEERS!, first published in 1913, tells the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of a Swedish pioneering family, who successfully takes over the management of the family farm upon her father's death. The story encompasses Alexandra's difficult relationships with her brothers, Oscar and Lou, her love for a neighbor, Carl ...
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Night of the Twisters
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Ivy Ruckman
When a tornado hits their town, friends Dan and Arthur find that they must work together to save themselves and Dan's baby brother.
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Room One: A Mystery or Two
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Andrew Clements, Mark Elliott (Illustrator)
A young boy living in rural western Nebraska investigates the connection between a mysterious face in the window of an empty house and the possible closing of the one-room school he attends. Illustrations.
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Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
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Bob Greene
The Nebraskan town of North Platte, now dotted with stripmalls and fast food restaurants, lies on the rail line where, sixty years ago, American soldiers preparing to head off to World War II would stop. The hospitality they received there was a homegrown sort, volunteered by the citizens of North Platte and topped off with hot coffee. Chicago ...
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The Dry Divide
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Ralph Moody, Tran Mawicke (Illustrator)
Ralph Moody's books "should be read aloud in every family circle in America." - "Sterling North." Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with ...
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A Lost Lady
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Willa Cather
The story of Marian Forrester, a wife and then a widow in a small Nebraska town, and Niel Herbert, the narrator, who has been devoted to her since he was a child, is one of Cather's lesser-known novels, but considered by many to be one of her best. Marian is a refined and civilizing presence in the rough town to which her marriage to a rich man ...
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The Echo Maker
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Richard Powers
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, ...
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The Road Home
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Jim Harrison
This multi-narrated sequel to DALVA covers the story of three generations of a Nebraska family. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
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Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humour the place he calls home in the Bohemian Alps of southeastern Nebraska. Like many other people in this rural area, he has what he calls 'wolf vision' - he sees every change in the landscape around him. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention. Memories of his grandmother's cooking are ...
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The magician's assistant
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Ann Patchett
For 20 years Sabine was the assistant of the magician, Parsifal. Deeply in love with him despite his homosexuality, she had to settle for his friendship. After his death, Sabine learns that Parsifal has surviving relatives in Nebraska, so she decides to visit them in an attempt to learn more about his past. In the place where her beloved came of ...
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Lantern in Her Hand
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Bess Streeter Aldrich
The life of Abbie Mackenzie and her husband, Will, as they try to establish a homestead on the America prairie in the 1800s.
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Perfect Evil
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Alex Kava
Still reeling from effects of her last case, FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell arrives in Platte City, Nebraska determined to help catch a potential copycat kidnapper who murders young boys.
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Dandelions
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Eve Bunting, Greg Shed (Illustrator)
Zoe and her family move from Illinois to the Nebraska Territory as part of the westward expansion of the 1800s. Zoe's father is excited about the move and happily begins to build the family a home. Zoe's mother is less enthusiastic, she misses the friends and family they left behind. One day Zoe notices a patch of dandelions growing near the road ...
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One of Ours
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Willa Cather
This novel about a farm boy who comes into his own on the battlefields of France in World War I, where he dies heroically, was called "a manly battle yarn" by its author. It won the Pulitzer Price in 1922.
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The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska
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John W DeCamp
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Abandoned Prayers: An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, and Amish Secrets
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Gregg Olsen
The true story of the 1985 murder of a young boy whose unidentified body was found in Nebraska. Two years later, a phone call from Ohio led authorities to the boy's father, an Amish bishop involved with pornography and drugs. of photos.
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Dalva
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Jim Harrison
The saga of a pioneer family is chronicled by Dalva, a woman searching for the lost son she had by Duane, a half-Sioux, and whose Indian heritage becomes an important part of Dalva's narrative.
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Cather: Stories, Poems, and Other Writings
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Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien (Editor)
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
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Nebraska
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Dana Fuller Ross
The legendary caravan drives onward in a story of hard-won ideals, betrayal from within, and sabotage from British and Russian agents.
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Two in the Field
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Darryl Brock
In this sequel to IF I NEVER GET BACK, time-traveling Sam Fowler returns to the 19th century in quest of Caitlin, his great love--this time becoming a tramp who rides the rails and, eventually, finds himself in the middle of the gold rush.
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Ribbon in the Sky
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Dorothy Garlock
Love is put to the ultimate test as spritely Letty Pringle is banished by her cruel father to raise her son on a desolate farm in Nebraska in the early 1900's.
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Road to Omaha
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Robert Ludlum
The Hawk, hero or anti-hero of the book "The Road to Gondalfo", is back with a $40 million caper up his sleeve. Still a legend in his own lifetime, he is now 64 and showing no sign of retiring from the intrigue and politicking which has formed the basis of his life.
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Savage Dance
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Cassie Edwards
Half-Indian and half-white, Kiriki, adopted by a Pawnee chief as a child, is on the verge of womanhood. She longs to spend her life as Sun Eagle's woman. He, in turn, aches to claim her. But when Kiriki is chosen as the sacrifice in a Pawnee ritual and kidnapped, Sun Eagle's ardor turns to rage. And as he seeks to free her and make her his wife, ...
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Prairie Songs
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Pam Conrad
Louisa loves the open Nebraska prairie where she and her pioneer family have their home. Secure and happy in a loving home life, Louisa hopes that the doctor and his beautiful wife, Emmeline, fresh from New York City, will love the prairie as much as she does. But Emmeline cannot get used to the loneliness or the harsh prairie life, and when her ...
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