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2) O pioneers!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A rewriting of the author's three novels about entrepreneur and outlaw Edgar J. Watson, who moved into the Florida Everglades to build a sugar plantation at the end of the nineteenth century and was rumored to be a cold-blooded killer, and his descendants.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
After a year of searching, Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke succeed in rescuing his wife Jennet who had been kidnapped by a renegade priest, but they learn their quest is not yet over when Jennet reveals she has given birth to a son and placed him in the care of a shady Creole merchant, Honor Poiterin, who has taken the child to the embattled city of New Orleans and is claiming him as his own.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Young Titus Bass abandons his home and the tempting neighbor girl Amy, to answer the call of the wilderness, traveling south from Kentucky to New Orleans, back up river to St. Louis, and into the unexplored Great Plains, encountering vixens and villains along the way.
Author
Series
Alaskan quest volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Leah Barringer Kincaid relies on prayer to help her and agent Helaina Beecham after her husband's twin brother, Chase Kincaid, abducts them and an early Alaskan winter interferes with their rescue.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Bonner family is reunited in the spring of 1824 when Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner's children come home to Paradise, New York, but the return of Martha Kirby--the Bonner's ward--comes with ties to trouble, which is exacerbated with the unexpected arrival of Martha's mother, who is known for her deftness to destroy families.
11) My Antonia
Author
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl.
15) Rebecca's reward
Author
Series
Daughters of Blessing volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard's hopes of finding love are abetted by her friends who arrange social events and other casual encounters with eligible bachelors, but her life changes direction when she travels to Bismarck, North Dakota, to learn how to operate a soda shop, which she plans on opening in Blessing, and meets a sophisticated and charming young man.
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that belonged to her brother Caleb helps her sort out her feelings and understand that Sarah will always love her.
17) Land of the buffalo bones: the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
19) Prairie whispers
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Only twelve-year-old Colleen knows that her baby sister died just after she was born and that Colleen put another baby in her place, until the baby's father shows up and makes trouble for her and her family on the South Dakota prairie in the 1860s.
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