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1) My Ántonia
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl.
2) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
One of America’s greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel—the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America’s Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cather’s novel is a uniquely American epic.
Alexandra...
Alexandra...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees. 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ensconced within a Hudson Valley retreat where expectant birth mothers are given luxurious accommodations and lucrative rewards to produce perfect babies, a Filipino immigrant is forced to choose between a life-changing payment and the outside world.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2004], ©2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
12) In like Flynn
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of...
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