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1) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Depicts the pioneering period of European settlement in the American prairie through the stories of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, who is the embodiment of the pioneer spirit.
2) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cather presents the story of the Nebraska prairie. Alexandra Bergson, daughter of Swedish immigrant farmers, is devoted to the land and suffers the hardships of prairie life.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher clashes with an organized crime family that is terrorizing Nebraska corn country in their efforts to supply dangerous international customers, a battle that is complicated by the unsolved case of a missing child.
4) My Antonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant.
Author
Series
Pine Ridge portraits volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Best-selling author Stephanie Grace Whitson is a two-time Christy Award finalist. Deep in Lakota Sioux territory in 1878, a torched farmstead is discovered by American soldiers. Hidden in the cellar is Laina Gray-delirious and pregnant. Nursed back to health by a woman who trusts God's healing hand, Laina recovers but continues to closely guard her terrible secrets.
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lilac Nielsen's dream has come true: Reverend Ethan Pritchard has finally noticed her. But she must balance this new courtship with her dream of publishing her artwork in a New York newspaper. She has been submitting the drawings under a pen name, and if anyone traces them to her the entire Nielsen family could be in danger. When a family crisis back in Ohio shakes the Nielsen sisters, can they continue to build the new life they've begun in Nebraska?...
Author
Series
Pine Ridge portraits volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stephanie Grace Whitson is an ECPA best-selling author and two-time Christy Award finalist. Watchers on the Hill is the sequel to the immensely popular historical novel Secrets on the Wind (K1088). Charlotte Valentine Bishop has buried her husband. Now she and her son Will are embarking on a trip back to Fort Robinson, Nebraska to make a new home for themselves with Charlotte's father. Unfortunately, the transition doesn't go as smoothly as Charlotte...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep the family homestead running, even if she must do it alone. When she discovers that Isaac McTavish has feelings for her, she pushes him away to protect her heart. But how can she build the life shes always dreamed of when unexpected dangers arrive?"--"--
Author
Series
2B trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After flunking out of college and losing her scholarship, twenty-one-year-old Lauren Barrett returns home to Nebraska where she finds an ally in Rob Conrad, her best friend's older brother, and together they try to figure out their futures.
Author
Series
Prairie promises volume 3
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the Nebraskan Territory of 1859, Gavin Miller writes home to request the hand of Miss Marguerite Chandler. Unfortunately, while he never forgot Marguerite was the French word for Daisy, he?d failed to recall that the two cousins shared their grandmother?s name, and Marge was the nickname of the wrong Miss Marguerite Chandler! When his surprise bride comes to Buttonwood, unexpectedly followed by the very cousin he?d meant to marry, will Gavin be...
Author
Series
Quilt chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Emilie Rhodes convinces her newspaper editor father to assign her to interview the speakers at the 1890 Chautauqua series, she meets and falls in love with Noah Shaw.
15) Fire storm
Author
Series
Kaely Quinn profiler volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When FBI profiler Kaely Quinn visits Nebraska to care for her ailing mother, she notices suspicious connections among a series of local fires and calls on her partner, Noah Hunter, to help find the arsonist. They embark on a twisted path to catch a mad man intent on Kaely's death"--
When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, FBI profiler Kaely Quinn 'takes time off work to go to Dark Water, Nebraska. The area has been hit by a series of fires, attributed...
16) 1922
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Wilfred James owns eighty acres of farmland in Nebraska that have been in his family for generations. His wife, Arlette, owns an adjoining one hundred acres. She wants to sell her land but if she does, Wilfred will be forced to sell as well. James will do anything to hold onto his farm, and he'll get his son to go along. Betrayal, murder, madness, rats, 1922 is a breathtaking exploration into the dark side of human nature from the great American...
18) A perfect evil
Author
Series
Maggie O'Dell novels volume 1
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from the effects of her last case, FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell arrives in Platte City, Nebraska determined to help catch a potential copycat kidnapper who murders young boys.
Author
Series
Publisher
Evergreen Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twin brothers Kent and Kyle Morris are on the hunt for a wild turkey they've named Scarface when a new opportunity comes up. They find a map for a hidden treasure and are soon on the hunt for the mysterious riches.
20) One false move
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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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