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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...
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Maggie O'Dell leads an investigation into the bombing of the nation's largest shopping center, uncovering paranoia, racism and a sinister secret agenda that extends to the highest ranks of a white-collar lobby group. As retailers count down to Christmas Eve, Maggie knows that infiltration is the only option--even though the cost could be huge.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Alcatraz and Grandpa Smedry make a pilgrimage to the Free Kingdom city of Crystallia, they are shocked to find the city under seige by the Evil Librarians--led by Alcatraz's own mother.
Author
Publisher
Prairieland Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"George, the cat in charge of security on his human's farm, thinks he has everything in his territory completely under control--until the day that he finds a strange kitten napping in his spot on his porch. Even worse, this pipsqueak, Felix, has two doggy bodyguards who chase George away from his rightful spot and straight up a tree. George vows to recover his spot, but one by one his plans are sabotaged by Felix and his hounds. The other farmyard...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2007], c.1983
Language
English
Description
"Jesse James was a fabled outlaw, a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life bad man whose bloody exploits captured the imagination and admiration of a nation hungry for antiheroes. Robert Ford was a young upstart nobody torn between dedicated worship and murderous jealousy, the "dirty little coward" who coveted Jesse's legend. The powerful, strange, and unforgettable story of their interweaving paths--and twin destinies that would collide in a rain...
Author
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"After a disastrous marriage, widow Mandy McClellen Gray is doing just fine in her remote mountain home. She's got her three children to keep her company and gold in the bank to keep her solvent. The last thing she needs right now is a cantankerous cowboy encroaching on her life. Rancher Tom Linscott is as tough and cranky as his unruly stallion. When he finds outlaws have trapped Mandy on her mountain, he's determined to rescue her, whether she wants...
89) Whitewash
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA
EchoEnergy has broken through the barriers to alternative fuel sources. The impact on world markets could be staggering. But amid the euphoria, Sabrina Galloway, one of EE's top scientists, makes an alarming discovery. Sabotage of the process has unleashed an eco-disaster, and toxic waste is poisoning Florida waters and the Gulf of Mexico.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Youthful congressional
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Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
An exciting, gritty portrait of a corrupt American city on the edge of self-destruction. During the waning days of World War I, three lost souls find themselves adrift in Omaha, Nebraska, at a time of unprecendented nationalism, xenohobia, and political corruption. Adolescent European refugee Karel Miihlstein's life is transformed after neighborhood boys discover his prodigious natural talent for baseball. Jake Strauss, a young man with a violent...
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Who Is Man Enough to be Doctor of Mosqueros, Texas? When nurse Beth McClellan survives a stage coach accident, she soon realizes the derelict traveling alongside her is a doctor, and she forces him to help tend the injured. Alex Buchanan, army deserter, finds he can only care for the patients as long as Beth is right beside him, giving him courage. . .by yelling at him. Beth thinks he's a lunatic when he proposes that they marry and work together...
92) Plainsong
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The interwoven lives of a community in Colorado. The characters include two cattle farmers who take in a girl, thrown out of her house for becoming pregnant. The novel describes the girl's impact on their lives, both men being bachelors.
Author
Series
Harper trophy book volume J80
Publisher
Harper & Row
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the sights and events a frontier family encounters travelling from South Dakota to the Ozarks.
94) 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.
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