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Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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
Author
Series
Trouble in Texas volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Language
English
Description
When a cowboy focused on revenge encounters a woman determined to distract him, there's going to be trouble in Texas!
Author
Publisher
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Pub. Date
19xx
Language
English
Description
History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial. This one-volume history quickly became the standard text for the college student and reference for the general reader, unmatched for generations as the only comprehensive history of the state. This fourth edition, revised and updated, preserves the spirit and intelligence of the original. Incorporating
...4) 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."
Author
Series
Trouble in Texas volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1970]
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.
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...
11) 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.
12) Betwix
Author
Publisher
Publish America
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
How do you find yourself if you never knew you were lost? When Allee Quintin first stumbles into a new world called Betwix in her backyard, she is desperate to find her way home. However, she is sidetracked when she meets Prince Ferdinand.
Author
Publisher
A. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1942
Language
English
Description
"[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
...Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Kloefkorn is a perfect blend of poet, raconteur, and scholar....Kloefkorn's poetry--perhaps like all poetry--is about the price of wonder. Wonder at nature, wonder at fate, and wonder--finally, luminously--at the miraculous depths and tributaries of the human soul."--Brent Spencer, Nebraska Life.
"Kloefkorn's style comes not only from long attention to the world, but from sustained immersion in the art and craft of language, and from granting himself...
15) Too far down
Author
Series
Cimarron legacy volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When an explosion at the mine kills workers and damages the CR Company, the Boden family is plunged deep into the heart of trouble yet againches As they try to identify the forces against them once and for all, Cole Boden finds himself caught between missing his time back in the east, and all that New Mexico offers-- namely, his family and cowgirl Melanie Blake.
16) No way up
Author
Series
Cimarron legacy volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Cimarron ranch patriarch Chance Boden is caught in an avalanche, the quick actions of hired hand Heath Kincaid save him. Badly injured, Chance demands that his will be read and its conditions be enforced immediately. Without anyone else to serve as a witness, Heath is pressed into reading the will. If Justin, Sadie, and Cole Boden don't live and work at home for the entire year, the ranch will go to their low-down cousin Mike. Then Heath discovers...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Arbor Day, Boys Town, and Kool-Aid® are just a few of the marks the Great Plains state of Nebraska has made on American culture. From the state's eastern border along the Missouri River, where Lewis and Clark embarked on the Corps of Discovery expedition, to the towering geologic landmarks of the west, chronicled in pioneers' journals, there are treasures to explore on each page of C is for Cornhusker: A Nebraska Alphabet.Rajean Luebs Shepherd...
Author
Series
A Bison book volume BB112
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1961
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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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