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1) One of ours
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World War I Collection Spotlight - American Experience
World War I Collection Spotlight - Classics
World War I Collection Spotlight - Family Saga
World War I Collection Spotlight - Classics
World War I Collection Spotlight - Family Saga
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Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated 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 crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with...
2) My Ántonia
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Widely recognized as Willa Cather's finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Ántonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska.
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by
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When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine - who was also his faithful assistant for 20 years - learns that the family he claimed to have lost in a tragic accident is very much alive and well. Sabine is left to unravel his secrets, and the adventure she embarks upon, from sunny Los Angeles to the bitter windswept plains of Nebraska, will work its own magic on her. Sabine's extraordinary tale will capture the...
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and 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...
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2021.
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Pickard County, Nebraska, July 1979. Sheriff's deputy Harley Jensen is restless, looking for something to take his mind off the past. Pam bristles against her role as wife and mother; her husband, Rick, struggles with the wreckage of his youth. Paul Reddick, town miscreant, is flint to Harley's steel. It's just a matter of time before their conflict burns Pickard County to the ground. -- adapted from jacket
6) Fallen creed
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Ryder Creed novels volume 7
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Prairie Wind Publishing
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English
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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.
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On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin, his only near 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, and sounds just like his sister - is really an identical impostor. Shattered by her brother's refusal to recognize...
9) My Antonia
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Orphaned as a teenager, Jim Burden comes to live with his stern grandparents on their isolated farm. His pain and loneliness ease when he meets the beautiful Antonia, the high spirited daugher of neighboring immigrant farmers. Antonia's lust for life in her new country endears the young woman to Jim, but not his grandparents, who want bigger and better things for their grandson.
11) The road home
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Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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Five members of the Northridge family narrate the epic of their history on the Nebraska plains.
12) Godfall
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University of Nebraska Press
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[2023]
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English
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"A three-mile-long humanoid alien has crashed into Earth in western Nebraska. Seemingly dead, the extraterrestrial lies in a field just outside of the small, quiet town of Little Springs. The man forced to keep order in this chaos is a small-town sheriff whose job becomes far bigger than that, especially when a series of brutal murders begins"--
13) Roughneck
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Lion books volume 201
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Lion
Pub. Date
1954.
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English
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"Dames and damnation. Hunger and hell -- that was his destiny in a raw, violent world of crooks, barbarians, and burlesque queens, of alcohol and flesh. ... In an age of uproar and calamity, he seized life -- and tried to strangle it by sheer brute force. That's Roughneck: bold, blunt, brilliant." --
14) O pioneers!
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Alexandra Bergson is the eldest child of a Swedish immigrant family newly arrived in the harsh untamed landscape of the American West. An original, determined child, she is driven by two forces: her fierce protective love for her younger brother, and a deep love of the beautiful country she has come to regard as her own. When her father dies, it is she who becomes the head of the family and struggles to soften the wild overgrown soil that surrounds...
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In 1977, a little boy is savagely attacked by his mother's pet Doberman; in 1997 another little boy disappears from his grandmother's backyard on a sunny summer morning; in 1966, a pregnant teenager admits herself to a maternity home, with the intention of giving her child up for adoption; in 1991, a young man drifts toward a career as a drug dealer, even as he hopes for something better. Why do we become the people that we become? How do we end...
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Little A
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[2015]
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English
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"Rebecca Meer's hometown of Ward, Nebraska, is small, so small that she can't even sneak home after a drunken girls' night without running into at least three people she knows. But she has bigger problems than her reputation. The head doctor at her fertility clinic is losing his mind, and his wild behavior could cost them the business. Her super successful ex-boyfriend has blown back into town and somehow become her son's fifth-grade teacher, now...
17) Dark signal
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Kate Fox novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Dark Signal by Shannon Baker is the second installment in the Kate Fox mystery series, called "A must read" by New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava, starring a female Longmire in the atmospheric Nebraska Sandhills. Reeling from her recent divorce, Kate Fox has just been sworn in as Grand County, Nebraska Sheriff when tragedy strikes. A railroad accident has left engineer Chad Mills dead, his conductor Bobby Jenkins in shock. Kate soon realizes...
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Kate Fox mystery volume 3
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Severn River Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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When a Lakota girl goes missing from the rez, no one cares...except Sheriff Kate Fox. After dodging her meddling family?s efforts to pair her off, Kate is settling into single life as Grand County Sheriff?until Deputy Kyle Red Owl?s sister disappears. Shocked by the harsh realities of rez life, and after locking horns with a Lakota-hating sheriff, end-of-world preppers, and a greedy liquor store owner, Kate fears the worst. Lies and old loyalties...
19) Fields of bounty
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Series
Leah's garden volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"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?"--
20) Stripped bare
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Severn River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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When Kate Fox receives a late-night phone call, her seemingly perfect life on the Nebraska prairie shatters in an instant. Eldon, shirt-tail relative and owner of one of the largest cattle ranches in Grand County, has been killed. Kate's husband, Ted, the Grand County Sheriff, has been shot and may never walk again. And worst of all, Ted is the prime suspect in Eldon’s murder. Desperate to clear Ted's name, Kate throws herself headlong into the...
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