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1) A lost lady
Author
Series
Publisher
ALFRED A. KNOPF
Pub. Date
1951
Language
English
Description
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."
2) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin company
Pub. Date
1913
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Swedish farmer John Bergson's daughter Alexandra encourages the family members to help keep his dream alive after his death.
3) My 'Antonia
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1918
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1974]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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?
6) Haven's wake
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The brutal murders of three young boys paralyze the citizens of Platte City, Nebraska. What's worse is the grim realization that the man recently executed for the crimes was a copycat. When Sheriff Nick Morrelli is called to the scene of another grisly murder, it becomes clear that the real predator is still at large, waiting to kill again.
Morrelli understands the urgency of the case terrorizing his community, but it's the experienced
...Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
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.
11) The home place
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1999, c1948
Language
English
Description
Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers.
This account in first-person narrative and photographs of the one-day visit of Clyde Muncy to "the home place" at Lone Tree, Nebraska, has been called "as near to a new fiction form as you could get." Both prose and pictures are homely: worn linoleum,
...Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times. Estranged from her parents because she married against their will, confronted with violence and prejudice against her people, and caught up in the midst of the worst plague the world has ever seen, Gerda Vogel, an American of German descent, must find the strength to keep her family safe...
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