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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Dirt-poor farmer, Paul Steele, is tested in Nebraska of the 1850's. He and his wife meet adversity head-on and overcome it while teaching their children honesty, loyalty and dedication. As the adults begin to overcome their challenges, the story centers more around their eldest son Simon's friendship with his best friend, Buell. Though these boys have dramatically different personalities, their loyalty to each other is unwavering, and each one takes...
62) Calling me home
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Twelve-year-old Abbie struggles to accept her father's desire to make a new home for his family on the Nebraska prairies of the late 1850s.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
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.
68) Giving thanks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009], ℗♭2009
Description
With Thanksgiving around the corner, Pete and Dana are about to get married, and Christopher organizes a canned food drive at school but gets so engrossed in collecting the most cans that he forgets about helping the needy. Meanwhile, Sam tries to win a college soccer scholarship, and Emily feels left out when her best friend starts dating. All of these activities are temporarily forgotten when a fire breaks out in the tractor shed, and the family...
Author
Series
Quilt chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Juliana Sutton has just about everything a woman could want. Her husband is riding a crest of success in the bustling capital city of Lincoln, and Juliana leads various philanthropic endeavors. Once finished, their new home, a spectacular mansion on five acres, will be the envy of all. Then a devastating scandal erupts... Cass Gregory, the foreman overseeing the Sutton mansion construction, has spent recent years trying to untangle the disastrous...
72) Miss Morissa
Author
Pub. Date
[1980], c1955
Description
Amidst the gold hunters, Indians, outlaws, ranchers, and farmers of 1870's Nebraska Morissa Kirk tries to find success and acceptance as a doctor.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killing that takes place in a full-contact haunted escape room-a provocative exploration of capitalism, hate politics, racial fetishism, and our obsession with fear as entertainment. On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities,...
Author
Series
Wilma Porter novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
When a traveling salesman mysteriously appears in smalltown Ebb, Nebr., he quickly settles in at Wilma Porter's Come Again B&B and sets about solving all the problems plaguing Ebb's small social circle in this chatty, earnest novel. While no one fully believes that the impeccably dressed Vernon Moore has truly come to sell games of chance (there are no prospective buyers, for one thing), they are eager to keep him around for excitement and advice....
75) The compromise
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Ellie MacCready's family was forced to sell their farm in the Nebraska Sand Hills when she was a teenager. Now, Ellie has returned to the Sand Hills to teach in a one-room school, and she rents a small house on the old family farm, now owned by Zane Redding. Money is tight, though, and Zane may have to sell the farm he's worked hard to develop. Then Ellie proposes a compromise: she will become a partner, investing in the farm she loves to keep...
76) Before the dawn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Carolyn Stevenson and her husband Bob welcome Carolyn's three grandchildren to their Nebraska farm following the accident that killed their mother Denise, who ran away from home as a teenager.
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