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1) My 'Antonia
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest
This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers,...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The residents of Platte City, Nebraska are relieved when convicted serial killer Ronald Jeffreys is executed for his crimes, but when two children are killed in Jeffreys' signature style, the local sheriff begins to fear that Jeffreys may have been killed for crimes he didn't commit and that the real killer is still on the loose.
3) O pioneers!
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English
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The first of her renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old evil genius, Oliver, uses his great brain to become the third richest person in the world, and finds that overthrowing foreign dictators is easier than getting the kids in his middle school to vote him class president.
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English
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Internationally bestselling author Alex Kava delivers a searing thriller of one woman's encounter with her past which could jeopardize her future… Melanie Starks has never lived life by the rules. She and her seventeen-year-old son, Charlie, have been running one con job or another for as long as she can remember, justifying the petty crimes as the necessary survival moves of a single mother. But Melanie is ready to give it up. Then Jared Barnett...
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English
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Meet Wilma Porter, the plucky and kindhearted owner of the only bed and breakfast in Ebb, Nebraska. Wilma knows everybody in town and everybody is in a bit of trouble. No one more so than Calvin Millet, though. His wife has up and left him and their ailing daughter. His department store is close to bankruptcy. His house has been destroyed by a tornado. The folks of Ebb, including Wilma and her indomitable gang of friends, watch Calvin's fortunes wane...
11) My Ántonia
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English
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Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the striking personal narrative of Solomon Northup in Twelve Years a Slave, this new series is a comprehensive collection...
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English
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All she wants for Christmas is to stay alive-and she needs the help of her state-trooper ex to do it . . .
Blood on her blouse. A gun in her hand. A cartel leader's dead body in front of her. Widow Asia Stratton can't remember what happened-just that she's been framed . . .
The only way to prove her innocence is to work with her ex-sweetheart, Nebraska state trooper Slade Jackson. But can they clear her name before this Christmas turns even...
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Most people dream about getting out of Sharon, Nebraska, but after three years away, Lauren Barrett is coming home. She has her reasonsmissing her family, losing her college scholarship. But then there's the reason Lauren can't admit to anyone: Rob Conrad, her best friend's older brother. Football prowess and jaw-dropping good looks made Rob a star in high school. Out in the real world, his job and his relationships are going nowhere. He's the guy...
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Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Historicals
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Will Hopkins's new housekeeper is the prettiest young woman he's ever seen - and that's the problem. Will thought Abigail Stewart would be a middle-aged matron well suited to hardscrabble prairie life. Even if his young sons are entranced by her wholesome kindness, his only option is to send Abby back east. For the sake of propriety... and his guarded heart. Answering the newspaper advertisement was Abby's chance of escape from her unhappy home. But...
15) Prairie Promises
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Series
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
You'll be delighted with the wit and humor of three stories of marriage plans that don't go as expected. Clara Fields tries to escape a difficult situation by finding a bride for a storekeeper's son, only to discover that the task is more complicated than she thought. The shotgun wedding that results from Opal Speck's hasty confession-that Adam Grogan is the father of her unborn baby-ends up creating more problems than it solves. Gavin Miller's mistaken...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
**She’s spent her life concealing her identity.
Now she must trust an undercover agent to survive.**
Willa Zimmerman grew up as the daughter of spies, so she’s always known her life could be in danger. That’s why, when North Star undercover operative Holden Parker follows her to her home, seeking a lead on a hit man, she captures him. But soon they learn they’re actually on the same side—and they’re being pursued by the same relentless...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen will fall in love this contemporary debut about finding yourself-and finding love-in unexpected places. Ocean breeze in her hair and sand between her toes, Anise can't wait to spend the summer before her senior year surfing and hanging out on the beach with friends. Santa Cruz is more than her home-it's her heart. But when her aunt, a single mother, is in a serious car accident, Anise must say goodbye to California...
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Series
Publisher
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Beth Phillips returns to Platteville, Nebraska in order to begin a new life and to hide from her abusive ex-husband. The secluded cabin offers a chance to stay hidden and to draw closer to God, but Beth quickly discovers she is not alone in the woods. She befriends a curious, displaced wolf, but instead of fearing the animal Beth finds comfort in his company. When field biologist, Aiden Holt, follows up on reported wolf sightings, he finds the animal...
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Series
Daughters of the Mayflower volume 11
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A Blizzard Changes Everything Abigail Bracey arrives in Nebraska in January 1888 to teach school ... and to execute a task for the government: to identify a student as the hidden son of a murderous counterfeiter -- the man who killed her father. Agent Dashiell Lassiter doesn't want his childhood sweetheart Abby on this dangerous job, especially when he learns the counterfeiter is now searching for his son, too, and he'll destroy anyone in his way....
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