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Author
Publisher
Meadowlark
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Pete Stone hadn't always been a private eye. He'd lost his dairy business at the toss of a coin when the depression hit. His children grew up, as children do, and his wife left him for a chinchilla farmer. He had learned to like his solitude. When Mrs. Lucille Hamilton walked through his door searching for her missing husband, Pete was the only one who believed her husband's death hadn't been a suicide. With a clean, detailed, vigorous style, Graves...
Author
Publisher
Hawkshadow Pub. Co
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by the untimely deaths of her parents, Emma Jorden has to abandon her Kansas home. Lost on the featureless prairie and near death, she is rescued by Shea Hawkshadow, a half-breed Cheyenne warrior. Her impulsive marriage to Shea propels them both into a precarious and treacherous existence. Fleeing brutal persecution for their interracial marriage, they embark on a risky journey across the frontier.-Cover.
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Series
Butter in the well volume 1
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
This is a fictionalized account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg's first 20 years on her Kansas farm.--Pref.
Author
Publisher
Publish America
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"This is a wonderfully well-written book, filled with compassion for the people who inhabit its pages-people who could be us. Reiter keeps it plain as she tells the story of a mismatched couple: a pretty fifteen-year-old girl married to a tortured Civil War veteran. But the book becomes spirtually exalting and heart-wrenchng as Annie, one of thousands of pioneer women, struggles to raise her children and create her own identity apart from the men...
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Language
English
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E. W. Howe, known for the realism of his novels about the American Middle West, turns to romance in The Mystery of the Locks. Dr. Allan Dorris purchases the Locks-a mysterious mansion-then marries, and is later murdered. The riveting story is a portrait of the morbid social elements in a bleak town.
7) Tully
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Language
English
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Description
The astonishing debut novel from international number one bestselling author Paullina Simons, beautifully repackaged Tully Makker is a tough young woman from the wrong side of the tracks and she is not always easy to like. But if Tully gives friendship and loyalty, she gives them for good, and she forms an enduring bond with Jennifer and Julie, school friends from very different backgrounds. As they grow into the world of the seventies and eighties,...
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Series
Never Enough volume 1
Language
English
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Description
It's the Depression and it's rural Kansas. For good measure, nature decides to throw in a Dust Bowl. It's not the life Cat Peters would have chosen, but the young Mennonite girl doesn't have much say in it. Driven to the edge of bankruptcy by the relentless winds of the Dust Bowl, Cat's family is desperate. Fortunately, wealthy Simon Yoder generously saves them with a loan. Everyone gets something more out of the arrangement than what they bargain...
10) Miriam's dilemma
Author
Series
Miriam volume 1
Language
English
Description
Leaving their beautiful home in Kansas City to live in the little town of Beloit Kansas was not Miriam Jensen's idea. "I'm not going to be stuck in this little humdrum town for a whol school year; I'll run away if Father doesn't let me go back to Kansas City. " She announced.
"You may be in for some surprises," her mother had told her. Once she met Melody Cramton, life was full of surprises, many of which put Miriam into a dilemma.
From tornado s,...
11) Firebird
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A dead woman's spirit enters a wife's body so she can be with the man she loves. It is the climax of a dramatic triangle involving a cultured Kansas lawyer, a rancher's daughter and an American lady violinist from Paris.
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Series
Language
English
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E. W. Howe established his reputation as an American realistic novelist with The Story of Country Town, an engrossing and vivid portrait of Midwestern Puritanism. Semi-autobiographical and enormously successful when published, the book tells the tale of Ned Westlock and his family, who live in a small Midwestern farming community.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Not just epistolary, this novel is archival, told entirely through journals, letters, photos, drawings, notes, and clippings left behind by Nell Doerr, who lived in Lawrence, Kansas, between 1854 and 1889. Although Nell seems so real you can reach out and touch her, she is a fictional character. The novel tells the story of her two stillborn babies, her move to Kansas, the loss of her husband in Quantrill's Raid, and her discovery, while hiding in...
16) Trusting Sarah
Author
Series
Harlequin historicals volume 279
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sarah Tanton had headed west seeking the promise of a fresh start, and freedom from the memories that haunted her. Yet, little did she know that every step brought her closer to the man she'd loved and lost. Though his testimony had landed her in prison, Daniel Harrison had never forgotten the woman who had taught him about love, and betrayal. But despite their past, Daniel found himself thinking about their future.
17) Stalag sunflower
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Language
English
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"Fifty years ago, Heinrich "Henry" Rohling was a German POW in Camp Conrad. Now widowed and in his seventies, he journeys back to Conrad, Kansas, to join in a POW reunion. And to correct the American verdict that his friend Novak died of suicide many years ago. At the reunion, Henry meets familiar faces: Reinhardt, the former colonel who ran the inside of Camp Conrad with an iron fist, Emily, the farm girl Henry fell for and left behind, and Kimmel,...
Series
Jade del Cameron novels volume 5
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Intrepid photojournalist Jade del Cameron is about to embark on safari for a Hollywood film. But when the film's financial backer is stabbed to death, the trip is cast under a sinister pall. Now, Jade will be tested as never before.
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Series
Language
English
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He hadn't wanted to like a city girl, much less love one, but Christian Prescott found himself on the horns of a dilemma: his yearning for Lynnette Sterling, his brother's intended bride. But she had corralled his heart and spurred him to a decision that would change his life forever! Lynnette's eyes were finally opened when she met her future brother-in-law. For she knew in a prairie heartbeat that Christian Prescott was the embodiment of the rugged...
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