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4) O pioneers!
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The novel that first made Willa Cather famous, O Pioneers! is a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman.
No other work of fiction so vividly evokes the harsh beauty and epic sweep of the Nebraska prairies that Cather knew and loved. Alexandra Bergson, one of the great heroines of American literature, is a young Swedish immigrant at the turn of the twentieth century who inherits her father's...
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Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 1
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English
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Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati’s epic novel sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty.
It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered—a...
It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered—a...
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Little house (HarperCollins). Caroline years volume 1
Little house. Caroline years volume 1
The Caroline years volume 1
Little house. Caroline years volume 1
The Caroline years volume 1
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English
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An abridged version of the story of young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family surviving their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
12) Hattie Big Sky
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After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
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[2016]
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In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
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Mountain Man: Matt Jensen volume 5
Mountain Man Matt Jensen volume 5
Matt Jensen the last mountain man volume Bk. 5
Mountain Man Matt Jensen volume 5
Matt Jensen the last mountain man volume Bk. 5
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English
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Matt Jensen didn't want to kill two murderers in Wyoming but he had no choice. Now, his fame has reached into Idaho Territory where a woman Matt knew as a child in an orphanage is being hunted by predators ... Kitty Wellington inherited her uncle's 20,000-acre ranch - and a mortgage - on the Snake River. She plans to pay her debt by selling thoroughbreds to the U.S. Army. But a relative is trying to steal it all ... until Matt enters a fight whose...
19) Centennial
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A stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent...
20) Calder grit
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2022
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English
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"When Blake Dollarhide's half-brother takes advantage of the daughter of a homesteading family, Blake steps in as Hanna Anderson's bridegroom to restore her honor and give her unborn child his name. When the war between the factions rages anew, everyone wonders if Blake will stand by the close-knit community he serves, or the wife he took in name only ... A marriage of love is more than Hanna ever dreamed of. But even as she longs to trust the bond...
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