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1) A lost lady
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English
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In the eyes of the middle-aged men who visited the house of Captain Daniel Forrester at Sweet Water, Nebraska, whatever Mrs. Forrester chose to do was "lady-like."
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Ruinous love trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
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"Doctor Fionn Kane is running from a broken heart, one he hopes to mend in small-town Nebraska, far away from his almost-fiancé and his derailed surgical career. It's a simpler life: head down, work hard, and absolutely no romantic relationships. He wants none of the circus he left behind in Boston. But then the Silveria Circus finds him. Motorcycle performer Rose Evans has spent a decade on the road with Silveria, and it suits her just fine, especially...
4) O pioneers!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Swedish farmer John Bergson's daughter Alexandra encourages the family members to help keep his dream alive after his death.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, a secretive magician's death becomes the catalyst for his partner's journey of self-discovery in this "enchanting" book (San Francisco Chronicle) "that is something of a magic trick in itself." (Newsweek)
When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine—who was also his faithful assistant for twenty years—learns that the family he
...7) My 'Antonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The spirited daughter of Bohemian immigrants, Antonia must adapt to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest. Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, andfamily tragedy, she eventually becomes a wife and mother on a Nebraska farm. A fictional record of how women helped forge the communities that formed a nation.
8) My Ántonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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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...
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Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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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...
10) Haven's wake
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Bison Original
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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OverviewEarly July, and the corn in eastern Nebraska stands ten feet tall; after a near-decade of drought, it seems too good to be true, and everyone is watching the sky for trouble. For the Grebels, whose plots of organic crops trace a modest patchwork among the vast fields of soybeans and corn, trouble arrives from a different quarter in the form of Elsas voice on her estranged sons answering machine: "Your fathers dead. Youll probably want to come...
11) In reach
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Bison Books
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English
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In writing both rich and evocative, Pamela Carter Joern conjures the small plains town of Reach, Nebraska, where residents are stuck tight in the tension between loneliness and the risks of relationships. With insight, wry humor, and deep compassion, Joern renders a cast of recurring characters engaged in battles public and private, epic and mundane: a husband and wife find themselves the center of a local scandal; a widow yearns for companionship,...
12) Rain dogs
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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It was one hell of an inheritance for former Chicago reporter Tom Coleman: a broken-down pickup truck, ramshackle campground, a canoe livery—and one pot-smoking, barely working employee he doesn’t need, doesn’t want, and can’t afford. But the truth is, after losing a child and a marriage, Tom doesn’t really care. And life is nice and quiet in the middle of nowhere. Until a drug lab blows up near his property—putting...
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Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Schaffert concocts an imaginary series of young adult books that have supposedly taken the world by storm. Theyre known as Miranda-and-Desirees because of the two plucky sisters who are their heroines. The institution that Miranda and Desiree have made famous sounds almost as well known as Hogwarts. But its "Rothgutts Asylum for Misguided Girls. No. 11, called "The Coffins of Little Hope," is the last book in the series. Fans of the series are in...
14) Miss Bishop
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Publisher
Tingle Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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MISS BISHOP
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Series
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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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?
16) Worth Dying For
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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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.
17) Slow Dance
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes Slow Dance—her smartest, funniest, most powerful novel yet
"If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is very hot, Slow Dance is the book for you. The people in it feel like people you know or maybe
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English
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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...
19) Sixteen brides
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Language
English
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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.
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Series
Publisher
Reading Essentials
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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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...