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84) Dalva
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Polish
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Dalva a Plains Indian returns to her home on the plains of Nebraska, accompanied by her boyfriend, Michael, a historian. Through her great grandfather's journals, which span the years of the civil war to Wounded Knee in 1890, she searches for the son given up for adoption when she was a teenager, while delving into the secrets in the journal.
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Wagons West) volume 2
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English
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Saga of the first wagon train west toward Oregon begins in Independence, Missouri, and ends when the five hundred brave pioneers reach the great plains of Nebraska. Centers on "Whip" Holt, the ruggedly quiet leader of the caravan and Cathy van Ayl, who leaves her family behind in Missouri to travel with Whip Holt's train and perhaps win his heart.
92) Over you
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"A novel about two girls on the run from their problems, their pasts, and themselves. Max and Sadie are escaping to Nebraska, but they'll soon learn they can't escape the truth"--
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Polish
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Nebraska, early nineties: Sheridan Grant lives with her adoptive family on a farm surrounded by corn fields. She suffers from the monotony of farm life and the strict regime of her adoptive mother, who prohibits the highly musical Sheridan from playing the piano. Luckily, there are the farm workers, Brandon, the rodeo rider Nick and artist Christopher. She also discovers the diary of the mysterious Carolyn. But then one Halloween night something terrible...
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Acclaimed for her 1928 novel "A Lantern in Her Hand," Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published her masterpiece, "Spring Came on Forever," a novel of two Nebraska pioneer families from settlement to the 1930s. Elsewhere an artist of the romance, here Aldrich turns romance on its head.
The heroine is Amalia Holmsdorfer, one of a band of German immigrants who settle...
95) My Àntonia
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English
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The strengths and passions of America's early settlers are memorably rendered in this portrait of a pioneer woman.
97) Gratefully yours
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In 1923, nine-year-old Hattie rides the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska where she must adjust to a strange new life with a farmer and his wife, who is despondent over the loss of her two children.
99) A mother's song
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English
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The story of two mothers: one who gave up her baby and one who raised the child. It is also the story of a child who loved both mothers.
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