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Non Fiction Tom Brokaw goies out into America,to tell through thestories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citzen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. 4
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Home to blessing novels volume 3
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Astrid and Joshua discover God's plans for them through difficult circumstances in the conclusion to this prairie romance series set in South Dakota.
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"A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation...
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2010
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It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands and the summer has been hard. Rachel and Isaac DuPree had left Chicago fourteen years ago to stake their claim. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn't rained in months, the cattle are bellowing with thirst, and supplies have dwindled. Struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She...
8) Legacy
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This compelling, centuries spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women, a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.
Brigitte Nicholson becomes hooked after she discovers a mystery in their family's past: how did a Dakota Sioux princess end up buried in Brittany as a...
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Wild West wind volume 2
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With a secretive widow, a love-struck cowboy, and a suspicious rancher standing in her way, will Cassie ever fulfill her father's last wish?
11) Valley of dreams
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Wild West wind volume 1
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As one woman tries to find the hidden valley of her father's dreams in the 1906 Black Hills, she also discovers courage, faith--and romance.
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"Deadwood, South Dakota. Miners flock there seeking fortunes, while cardsharps, bandits, and businessmen seek to deprive those who strike gold by means fair and foul. Legendary former lawman Seth Bullock plans to keep the peace by any means necessary --- especially when his good friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, is expected in town to celebrate the anniversary of Deadwood's founding. Delayed in Washington, the President has sent his wife and children...
13) Saving Alice
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"Stephen Whittaker has his whole life planned, but when he loses his true love--Alice--a gradual undetected spiral begins. When everything starts unraveling who will Stephen turn to?"--Provided by publisher.
14) A reason to die
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When his dying grandfather gives him clues to a buried fortune in gold, Perley Gates goes up against ruthless lowlifes, kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians in order to claim the treasure.
15) Mystic Horseman
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Dillon Black has a dream, the Mystic Warriors Horse Camp, a place where wayward youth can connect with the Lakota ways. He has the land, the horses and the history. All he needs is the money. His ex-wife, Monica, a mover and shaker with her own television show, thinks he could use some common sense but deep down, she feels that Dillon's project might be able to mend their shattered family. She knows that Dillon and their teenaged children will need...
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"In August 1876, Jack Jones, a reporter for a Chicago newspaper, is assigned to write about the doings of Deadwood, Dakota Territory--an illegal gold camp that knows no law. The lure of gold in the Lakota's Black Hills draws prospectors and many colorful characters, such as Al Swearengen, Calamity Jane, Colorado Charlie Utter, Seth Bullock, Madame Mustache, and Sol Star, and it also lures crime. After the shocking murder of an acquaintance, Jack Jones...
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[2019]
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"The last year of the Nixon presidency was filled with power politics, legal jiu-jitsu and high-stakes showdowns, with head-shaking surprises every day. Tom Brokaw, the NBC News White House correspondent during the final year of Watergate, gives us a close-up, personal account of the players, the strategies, and the highs and lows of the scandal that brought down a president. Brokaw writes, 'Even now, almost half a century later, I am astonished by...
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A collection of short stories about the struggles of some and the evil of others. They are stories of good triumphing over bad; and how even in a time when the law was often not to be found, some men still did what was right. Although the stories in this book are fiction, they show the spirit of those people that settled the west and helped make the legends of the frontier.
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A collection of short stories that show what it took to build in the west. The stories show how men fought to survive, fought to bring law and order to a lawless land, and the perils that faced those who simply traveled across the land. The stories are fiction, yet they could have happened to any of the many souls that will never be known who reached out to the west for a better life.
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