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1) My Ántonia
Author
Language
English
Description
Emigrating from Bohemia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, with her family, Antonia discovers no white-framed farmhouse or snug barn. Instead, the cultured Shimerda family finds itself huddled in a primitive sod house buffeted by the ceaselessly blowing winds on the Midwest prairie. For her childhood friend Jim Burden, Antonia comes to embody the elemental spirit of this frontier. Working alongside men, she survives without compromising the rich, deep power...
2) O Pioneers!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." "The heroic battle for survival of simple pioneer folk in the Nebraska country of the 1880s. John Bergson, a Swedish farmer, struggles desperately with the soil but dies unsatisfied. His daughter Alexandra resolves to vindicate his faith, and her strong character carries her weak older brothers and her mother alng to a new zest...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett...
7) Badlands
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
Candace enters the Badlands on a scientific expedition to study prehistoric man and fossils. The men with her attempt to plunder the Sioux Nation and everything becomes a nightmare.
9) Elsie's bird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
10) Worth
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
11) Nebraska!
Author
Series
Wagons West volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle
Pub. Date
c1978.
Language
English
Description
Whip Holt leads a caravan of courageous men and women whose determination to carve a new life in the frontier of early nineteenth-century America is tested by inhospitable terrain, the elements, and hostile Indians.
12) The road home
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Continuing the story of Dalva and her peculiar and remarkable family, The Road Home encompasses the voices of Dalva's grandfather, John Northridge; Naomi, the widow of his favourite son; Paul, the first Northridge son; and Nelse, Dalva's son.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins, and by doing so, forms familial bonds and new friendships that challenge her feelings of abandonment by her mother.
14) Over you
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about two girls on the run from their problems, their pasts, and themselves. Max and Sadie are escaping to Nebraska, but they'll soon learn they can't escape the truth"--
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
The heroine is Amalia Holmsdorfer, one of a band of German immigrants who settle on the prairie. From her late teens to her mid-eighties she confronts and defeats the forces of nature and society that discourage or ruin others. Her life might be a modest triumph but for one detail: she married the wrong man.
16) Fallen creed
Author
Series
Ryder Creed novels volume 07
Publisher
Prairie Wind Publishing
Language
English
Formats
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.
17) Room one
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Link Lochlin of the Keystone Ranch has been having dream images and waking visions of a secluded, castle-like structure. He ventures off by himself in search of it. He is met on his way by a mysterious blacksmith who seems to know more about the object of his quest than he does. When he finds the castle, he also finds a woman who lives secluded in the tower and a gravedigger who spends all his time digging graves for women but without bodies for them....
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