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Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When bankruptcy forces widow Susanna Jenkins to follow her family to New Mexico, what they see as a failure she sees as a fresh start. Owen Turner is immediately attracted to Susanna, but he's afraid of opening up his heart again, especially as painful memories are stirred up. But if Owen can't face the past, he'll miss out on his greatest chance at love"--
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late nineteenth century and the subsequent efforts to restore the bison population. A longtime wildlife biologist and one of the most powerful literary voices on the Great Plains, Dan O'Brien has managed his own ethically run buffalo ranch since 1997. Drawing on both extensive research...
Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"I love you." "What can I get you?" "Let's take a walk."Wanting to say simple things like these but not being able to is frustrating and disheartening—but learning how to communicate can be easy and fun! This book is a basic guide to the alphabet, vocabulary, and techniques it takes to connect using American Sign Language. Whether signing out of necessity or learning for the sake of growing, you will enjoy this practical primer. After reading
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
The Grammy Award-winning American soul and gospel singer and mother of Whitney Houston reflects on her daughter's life, the events that led up to her death and the aftermath of a senseless tragedy.
Cissy has said little publicly about Whitney's heart-breaking death. Now she opens up and shares the unbelievable story of her daughter's life, as well as her own, and addresses Whitney's brightest and darkest moments. With candor and respect, she sets...
Author
Series
Bison book volume BB130
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1962
Language
English
Author
Publisher
White Pine Press
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
In Independent, he writes: "A recent issue of the hometown paper / turns bloodhound to sniff me out, / and I read that the church / where I learned to have no other gods / before it / has merged with a larger denomination, / the stuccoed building, big as a poor boy's / castle, sold to the Baptists, / and quick as a miracle I mix myself a drink."
55) Honey and salt
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
A collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.
Though he was also renowned as a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was first and foremost a poet-upon his death, President Lyndon Johnson said "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."
In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Despite her unconventional upbringing - she'd been adopted off the orphan train by the local "madam" - Emma Chalmers was the most prim and proper young lady in all of Whitneyville. Why, she wouldn't even permit Fulton Whitney to kiss her, and they were practically engaged! But when Steven Fairfax landed in her home, wounded in an explosion at the town's raunchiest saloon, his lazy smile made Emma's blood race. Slowly, Steven stilled her fears with...
59) Terrifying tales
Series
Guys read volume 6
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Eleven masters of suspense have come together to bring you a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories perfect for sharing around the campfire, reading under the covers with a flashlight, and scaring your friends' pants off"--Front jacket flap.
Author
Series
A Bison book volume BB112
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1961
Language
English
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The World of Willa Cather describes the people and places in Nebraska that figure prominently in many of Cather's best novels and short stories. It offers material that can be found nowhere else. Here are Willa Cather of Red Cloud, her family and friends, and the things that formed her sensibilities.
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