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Copper Canyon Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry! Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In Delights and Shadows, Kooser draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life. Quotidian objects like a pegboard, creamed corn and a forgotten salesman's trophy...
2) Swept away
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Series
Trouble in Texas volume 1
Language
English
Description
When a cowboy focused on revenge encounters a woman determined to distract him, there's going to be trouble in Texas!
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Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness.
As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love—a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than...
As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love—a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than...
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Language
English
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The purpose of this book is to indicate the Natural Principles governing the relation between Mental Action and Material Conditions. Mental Science is one of the earliest New Thought paths. It emphasizes personal development as the vehicle to awaken ones' latent abilities. The New Thought movement is a movement which developed in the United States in the 19th century. It holds that Infinite Intelligence, or God, is everywhere, spirit is the totality...
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Publisher
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...
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Publisher
Nebraska
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Presents ten autobiographical pieces by twentieth-century regional historian, biographer, novelist, and teacher Mari Sandoz on the pioneer days in the Sandhills of northwestern Nebraska and includes excerpts about homesteaders and Indians and family, friends, and neighbors.
8) Rain dogs
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Publisher
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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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...
10) Divine honors
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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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<P><B>Winner of the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry (2002)</B></P><P>This elegant and moving collection documents Hilda Raz's experience with breast cancer. The journey, from diagnosis to chemotherapy to mastectomy, from denial to humor to grief and rage, is ultimately one of courage and creativity. The poems themselves are accessible and finely wrought. They are equally testaments to Raz's insistence on making an order...
11) Mother Mason
Author
Publisher
Tingle Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Mother Mason
12) Stuck together
Author
Series
Trouble in Texas volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"They may be the last two single people in Broken Wheel, but Vince Yates and Tina Cahill are determined not to end up stuck together"--
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English
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"[One] of the great stories of the West, and written . . . in the spirit of the sages, with a scrupulous regard for truth and history."—Atlantic Monthly
Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the U.S. government's
...15) Miss Bishop
Author
Publisher
Tingle Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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The story of a schoolteacher in Nebraska in the 1800s.
16) Long time gone
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Series
Language
English
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The Boden clan thought their troubles were over with the death of a dangerous enemy. But with new evidence on Cole's shooting, Justin can't deny that the plot to take their ranch was bigger than one man. While the doctor and his distractingly pretty assistant help Cole, Justin has to uncover the trail of a decades-old secret as danger closes inches.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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From the bestselling author of Eventide, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.
Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors...
Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors...
18) Petticoat Ranch
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English
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Sophie Edwards is doing just fine alone in the bleak wilderness of Texas. Still, God hears the cries for help that she is too busy to voice. One night a strange - yet oddly familiar - man rides into her life and insists on rescuing her and her four daughters. When Clay McClellan discovers his brother has been murdered, he's bent on seeing the killers hanged. But first, he believes, Christian duty demands he marry his sister-in-law.
19) A lost lady
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Series
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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."
20) Sing them home
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English
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This novel is a portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother's disappearance when they were children. Everyone in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician's wife whose big dreams for their tiny town were lost along with her in the tornado of 1978. For Hope's three young children, the stability of life with their preoccupied father, and with Viney, their mother's spitfire...