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1) My Antonia
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English
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First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land (not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made) comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make...
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Maggie O'Dell novels volume 1
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English
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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.
3) My Ántonia
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English
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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...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 15
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English
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In the corn country of Nebraska, ex-police officer Jack Reacher runs afoul of the local Duncan clan--and its criminal connections--when he investigates a decades-old, unsolved case of a missing child.
5) O pioneers!
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Series
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English
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O Pioneers by Willa Cather is story of a family of Swedish immigrants who settle in a fictional town in Nebraska. When her father dies, Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm and is determined to see it succeed, even at a time when many immigrant families are leaving the prairie.
6) Dandelions
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory.
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English
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Melanie Starks and her seventeen-year-old son, Charlie, have been running one con job or another for as long as she can remember. Worried about Charlie, though, Melanie is ready to start over. Then her brother, Jared, reappears in her life.
Released on a technicality, Jared Barnett is just out of prison and feeling more invincible than ever. He has the perfect plan to rob a local Nebraska bank, but he needs Melanie's and Charlie's help.
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English
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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.
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. In doing so, she forms...
9) Nebraska
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Bellwether Media, Inc
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Nebraska. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher.
10) Nothing but sky
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Publisher
Flux
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
"Grace Lafferty, an eighteen-year-old wing-walker, thrills crowds with barrel rolls and loop-the-loops in hopes of making enough money to get to the 1922 World Aviation Expo"--
11) Elsie's bird
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Publisher
Philomel Books
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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.
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Publisher
Pebble
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English
Description
How much do you know about Susan La Flesche Picotte? Find out the facts you need to know about the first American Indian to become a doctor. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American.--Provided by publisher.
13) Sixteen brides
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Publisher
Bethany House
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English
Description
Sixteen Civil War widows are going to need all the courage and faith they canmuster to survive their unwanted circumstances--especially when they begin todiscover that none of them is exactly who she appears to be.
15) Fields of bounty
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English
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"Lilac Nielsen must learn to balance her new courtship with the young reverend and her pursuit of another dream-the publication of her artwork in a New York newspaper. But when a family crisis back in Ohio shakes the Nielsen sisters, can they continue the new life they've begun in Nebraska? And will Lilac be prepared for what God has in store for her future?"--
16) The law of nines
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English
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Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the midwestern United States, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him--and everyone he loves--into a target--target for extreme and uncompromising violence.
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Diviners volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Led by a vision, the Diviners travel to Bountiful, Nebraska, where they must confront their greatest fears and learn to rely on one another in order to save the world from catastrophe.
New York City, 1927. The Diviners are in for the fight of their lives against the King of Crows and his Army of the Dead. With Sam missing, Evie in mourning, Theta's power growing unstable, and Memphis and Isaiah hunted by the Shadow Men, their only hope lies in Bountiful,...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In search of "the best America there ever was," bestselling author and award-winning journalist Bob Greene finds it in a small Nebraska town few people pass through today-a town where Greene discovers the echoes of the most touching love story imaginable: a love story between a country and its sons.
During World War II, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte, Nebraska, on troop trains en route to their ultimate...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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English
Description
"For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker...
20) Fire storm
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Kaely Quinn profiler volume 2
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English
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"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"--
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