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Based on the extraordinary life of Louis Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation...
42) Follow Me Down
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Follow Me Down is a rare find--a gutsy, visceral, and beautifully crafted psychological thriller that Diane Chamberlain called an engrossing page turner [that] will keep you guessing right up to the delicious ending from talented new author Sherri Smith. Mia Haas has built her life far from the North Dakota town where she grew up, but when she receives word that her twin brother is missing, she is forced to return home. Back to the people she left...
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Mascot Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Bear and his friend Ben feel like they are living two lives: one, where native traditions-- like long hair-- are a crucial part of their identities, and the other, where indigenous expressions are mocked and treated with ignorance. When the boys encounter bullying because of the braids they wear, these two worlds collide. Seeking guidance from his beloved grandma, Bear confides his doubts and questions himself and his heritage. Bear's grandma knows...
44) Dakota dusk
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Dakota volume 3
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English
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"When fire rages through his childhood home one night, Jude, full of anger and guilt, turns his back on his family who can help him heal. He leaves Soldahl, North Dakota, and takes up wandering from town to town. When he arrives in the small, fire-ravaged town of Willowford, North Dakota, he agrees to help schoolmarm Rebekka Stenesrude by rebuilding the schoolhouse before he moves on, once again. But God keeps Jude in Willowford to work on his heart,...
45) The homestead
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During the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Amish girl Hannah and her family move from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to a homestead in North Dakota, hoping to make a fresh start, but face harsh realities and nearly starve until Hannah takes matters into her own hands, going into town to look for a job, leaving her little time to contemplate her feelings for her neighbor.
46) Wild life
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in a small town in North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much, and Eric runs away.
47) The long winter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The Ingalls family moves to the Dakota territory, claims a homestead, and braves the hardships and perils of living on the frontier.
Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
50) Dakota dawn
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Dakota plains volume 1
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English
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Previously published in 1993 by Barbour Books.
She stepped off the train, found her trunk full of quilts, hand-embroidered linens, and household treasures painted with rosemaling designs, and looked anxiously for Hans. The pelting March snow stung her cheeks. "Where is he? Dear God, what will I do?" When Hans failed to arrive at the train station that night, Nora found herself thrown into a life she never expected--Reverend and Mrs. Moen and Carl...
52) Long shadows
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"The latest riveting thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series"--
Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide: a federal judge and her bodyguard. The judge had many enemies, but the bodyguard adds presents conundrums. Meanwhile, Decker must contend with a new partner-- Special Agent Frederica "Freddie" White-- and an event that brings Decker's own tragic past to the present. -- adapted...
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Center Point Pub
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English
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Meet Alex Armstrong, new pastor and lifelong city dweller, who has just accepted his first parish assignment, a small parish in the wilds of North Dakota. Hilltop Township, a farming community, blooms from the prairie like a wild pink rose lovely and prickly, much like the quirky residents. Pastor Alex quickly learns that this lovely place is in peril; many of the farmers are struggling to make ends meet. As he settles into life on the prairie, he...
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Series
Forever Hilltop volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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58) Becoming Olivia
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Series
Coming home to Brewster volume 3
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
59) Finding Ruth
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Series
Coming home to Brewster volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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