Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Heed the Thunder Heed the Thunder Jim Thompson Old Lincoln Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Po… OL13420880W
Outside Valentine Outside Valentine Liza Ward Haunted by the serial murders committed by Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate years earlier, Manhattan collector of antiquities Lowell finds the case further complicated by a self-appointed te… OL15857455W
In the land of second chances In the land of second chances George Shaffner When a traveling salesman mysteriously appears in smalltown Ebb, Nebr., he quickly settles in at Wilma Porter's Come Again B&B and sets about solving all the problems plaguing Ebb's small social circ… OL16047467W
Over you Over you Amy Lynn Reed "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"-- OL17867545W
The burned bridges of Ward, Nebraska The burned bridges of Ward, Nebraska Eileen Curtright "Rebecca Meer's hometown of Ward, Nebraska, is small, so small that she can't even sneak home after a drunken girls' night without running into at least three people she knows. But she has bigger pro… OL20017000W
Prairie Songs Prairie Songs Pam Conrad Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife. OL2006658W
Willa Cather's My Ántonia Willa Cather's My Ántonia Liza McAlister Williams A guide to reading "My Ántonia" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests,… OL5366234W
Hick Hick Andrea Portes Though its first-person narrating voice is fast-paced, powerful and unquestionably authentic, Hick is a debut novel. Beyond this voice, what makes the book so extraordinary is that, although all of t… OL8957497W