The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in...
Nebraska
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Author:Genoways, TedSummary: -
Author:Towles, AmorSummary:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TODAY. Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick "Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth." - The New York Times Book Review. "A classic that we will read for years to...
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Author:Cather, WillaSummary:Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not...
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Author:Cather, WillaSummary:A deeply moving portrait of a community of early American pioneers in the Nebraska heartland and of the free-spirited girl at its heart.
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of...
- Author:Silverman, LauraSummary:
Anise can't wait to spend the summer before her senior year surfing and hanging out on the beach with friends. Santa Cruz is more than her home—it's her heart. But when her aunt is in a serious car accident, Anise must say...
- Author:Whitson, Stephanie GraceSummary:
It is World War II, and Nazi soldiers have been brought fo Fort Robinson as prisoners of war. The town, already heartworn from the loss of so many men, is divided in their feelings about the prisoners. CJ, now all grown up and running a...
- Author:Harrison, JimSummary:
Beautiful, fearless, and tormented, at forty-five Dalva has lived a life of adventures. Now, she begins a journey back to the Nebraska prairie where she was born and the son she gave up for adoption years ago.
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
Can her dreams for the future—and a budding romance—survive the trouble that comes calling? Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep her family homestead running and to fulfill their dream of starting a seed catalog, with or without her...
- Author:Streeter Aldrich, BessSummary:
Abbie Deal was born in Iowa during the 1800's. This novel tells how she moved to Nebraska as a bride and struggled with hardship and poverty to help her husband raise a family and provide for them.
