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Author
Series
Publisher
Appleton-Century Company
Pub. Date
1942
Language
English
Description
When Linnie Colsworth comes from the East to visit relatives in Omaha, she is plunged into a wider, more hazardous world than she had ever known. In the wake of the Civil War, land seekers are pouring into the West and displacing the Indian tribes. Not interested in spending her days sewing and serving tea, Linnie travels up the Missouri to deliver a "Dear John" message to her cousin's fiancé, a handsome lieutenant - and suddenly becomes the...
43) Slow John
Author
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After five long years in the army, First Lieutenant John Flynn was finally being mustered out and would soon be going home to the family he hadn't even heard from since he enlisted. But when he rode to the family home, he made two shocking discoveries: his family was gone, and he had been declared dead by the army four years earlier. When he finally left to cross the plains of Nebraska to find his family, he would find so much more.
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times. Estranged from her parents because she married against their will, confronted with violence and prejudice against her people, and caught up in the midst of the worst plague the world has ever seen, Gerda Vogel, an American of German descent, must find the strength to keep her family safe...
46) Scotts Bluff
Author
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Aaron had been caught in a surprise Nebraska blizzard in November, so he was prepared for the snow and gale-like winds, but he was not prepared for what he discovered when he continued his return home to his ranch southwest of Scotts Bluff.
47) Stripped bare
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A cattle rancher investigates the murder of another, copes with her husband's infidelity, and searches for her missing niece--heiress to a ranch that is a source of friction among locals.
48) One false move
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Melanie Starks and her seventeen-year-old son, Charlie, have been running one con job or another for as long as she can remember. Worried about Charlie, though, Melanie is ready to start over. Then her brother, Jared, reappears in her life.
Released on a technicality, Jared Barnett is just out of prison and feeling more invincible than ever. He has the perfect plan to rob a local Nebraska bank, but he needs Melanie's and Charlie's help.
...Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother,...
51) Dark signal
Author
Series
Kate Fox volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Who would want to kill Chad Mills? Kate finds that he made a few enemies as president of the railroad workers union. Meanwhile his widow is behaving oddly. And why was his neighbor Josh Stevens at the Mills house on the night of the accident? While her loud and meddling family conspires to help Kate past her divorce, State Patrol Officer Trey closes in on Josh Stevens as the suspect. Kate doesn't believe it. She may not have the experience, but she's...
Author
Publisher
Plainview Publications
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
Based on authentic letters from the era, My darling Dorothy is a timeless love story that transcends both hard times and the brutal impact of war. The tumult of the Great Depression and World War II provides the background for a novel about three young people; Tommie, Jack and Dorothy, and their challenges, struggles, defeats and triumphs. Tommie struggles to survive the Bataan Death March in the fall of 1941, clinging to his dream of a gratifying...
Author
Publisher
Joel Williamsen
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
It is 1894, and Nebraska's glittering state capital draws young Bud Gardner away from drought and poverty towards a precarious existence within his uncle's saloon, extended family and eccentric circle of bootleggers. But amidst the whores, oddballs, and shady characters of Lincoln's Haymarket district, Bud discovers Anna Marie, a fiery Czech girl-and the deadly forces that connect Chicago 's railroad strikes, Omaha's slaughterhouse riots, a grisly...
54) Silent abduction
Author
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
For Civil War veteran Jim Logan and his family, Hay Springs, Nebraska, seems the perfect location to begin their new life as ranchers. But when their future is threatened by a series of tragedies-including the loss of their livelihood and a reckless kidnapping-only a miracle can save them. Jacket.
Author
Publisher
C.N. Potter
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Description
The story tells of the gambler and townsite promoter who founded Cozad, Nebraska, and of his family, particularly his younger son, [who] became a world-famous artist and teacher known as 'Robert Henri.' This tale is essentially Robert's story, the story of a sensitive talented boy growing up in the midst of frontier violence. But it is also the story of the ambitious promoter and of frontier people fighting hunger, cold, blizzards, drouths, grasshoppers,
...Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A debut novelist interweaves a trio of voices--haunting, dangerous, full of longing--mysteriously linked by a shocking crime and the search to heal the past
Many long years have passed since the winter of blinding white when Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate drove across the hushed midwestern landscape and left a trail of blood and pain. So why does Lowell, a Manhattan collector of antiquities, still dream of what happened, despite his wife's...
57) Lucy Gayheart
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1935
Language
English
Description
A young girl in an American village goes to Chicago to study music, falls in love with a middle-aged singer, knows a brief moment of contentment, and then the pain of a separation that is final.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An unexpected visitor arrives in town! But who is he? What is he? Where did he come from? Readers will learn the answers to all these questions as they watch the mysterious visitor travel through places they know and love in Nebraska! Come along and celebrate an unforgettable Halloween night!
59) Fallen creed
Author
Series
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.
K9 handler Ryder Creed and his scent dog, Grace, return to Nebraska to join FBI Agent Maggie O'Dell and Special Investigator Tommy Pakula. A rural Postal carrier found a black plastic bag discarded in a grassy roadside ditch-- containing the partial remains...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Two drunks--Ty Bonte, a rancher's son, and Harney Rivers, the town's rich boy--beat two Indians, leaving them for dead, although the Indians don't die because Ty returns to save them. Twenty-two years later the families of the Indians demand justice. By the author of Strange Angels.
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