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2) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Swedish farmer John Bergson's daughter Alexandra encourages the family members to help keep his dream alive after his death.
3) My Ántonia
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1918
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
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Stories of the heartland by the National Book Award finalist and author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
“Nebraska captures a rowdy, changing America. Written with wit and brawny lyricism, in voices ranging from hip to tender, the stories gathered here are as diverse and expansive as the country they celebrate…References to America’s heartland abound throughout the book...
“Nebraska captures a rowdy, changing America. Written with wit and brawny lyricism, in voices ranging from hip to tender, the stories gathered here are as diverse and expansive as the country they celebrate…References to America’s heartland abound throughout the book...
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1974
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year old Addie Mills can't understand why her father won't let her have a Christmas tree. It's something she wants more than anything -- but even Addie's wise, loving Grandma can't get Addie's father to change his mind.Then Addie finds a way to make her dream come true. Will her father find some Christmas spirit in his own heart and share her happiness?
7) One of ours
Author
Series
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1922
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully written Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his parents, all but rejected by his wife, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It's only when America enters the First World War that Claude finds...
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The brutal murders of three young boys paralyze the citizens of Platte City, Nebraska. What's worse is the grim realization that the man recently executed for the crimes was a copycat. When Sheriff Nick Morrelli is called to the scene of another grisly murder, it becomes clear that the real predator is still at large, waiting to kill again.
Morrelli understands the urgency of the case terrorizing his community, but it's the experienced
...9) Miss Bishop
Author
Publisher
D. Appleton Century Company Incorporated
Pub. Date
1933
Language
English
Description
MISS BISHOP
10) Worth Dying For
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2010
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
At the age of 17, Randall Hunsacker shoots his mother's boyfriend, steals a car and comes close to killing himself. His second chance lies in a small Nebraska farm town, where the landmarks include McKibben's Mobil Station, Frmka's Superette, and a sign that says The Wages of Sin is Hell. This is Goodnight, a place so ingrown and provincial that Randall calls it "Sludgeville"-until he starts thinking of it as home.
In this pitch-perfect...
In this pitch-perfect...
12) Sixteen brides
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Sixteen Civil War widows are lured west with the false promise of land in this tale of women showing strength in circumstances beyond their control.
13) Dead aim
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The oldest and boldest O'Malley brother, Long John takes on the challenge of riding shotgun on a wagon train across the hostile Nebraska Territory. But the real test lies in the journey ahead--to the Rocky Mountains, Sante Fe, and home to Texas--with perils that will either make him a living legend or a dead one
18) Strange angels
Author
Publisher
Ticknor & Fields
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
The strength an beauty of the American heartland shines through in the story of a ranching family struggling with the death of its patriarch and withsome overwhelming familial and cultural myths.
Author
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Enter a historic Nebraskan prison where three women find betrayal, love, and ultimate truth. Jane Prescott is serving a ten-year sentence for murder. Can a broken spirit be healed behind bars? Matron Mamie Dawson feels called to help the wounded women in her charge. Will a guard's attentions keep her from her mission? Warden's wife Ellen McKenna has changed her preconceptions about these female prisoners. Will it be enough to save her from a life-or-death...
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