nebraska

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nebraska

A lantern in her hand

1997
After marrying Will Deal and moving to Nebraska, Abbie endures the difficulties of frontier life and raises her children to pursue the ambitions that were once her own.

An orphan for Nebraska

1979
Orphaned on the journey to America in 1872, a young Irish boy finally makes his way to Nebraska where he goes to work for a newspaper editor and learns to do the work of a printer's devil.

Hank's story

2002
In 1923, twelve-year-old Hank and his older brother Peter travel on the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska where they find a miserable existence living on a farm with a disagreeable and abusive couple whose only use for the brothers is as unpaid help.

Across the wild river

1993
Twelve-year-old James Gregg and his family are heading west in 1848. He has many adventures along the way, including saving his friend, Cady Walker, when she falls into the South Platte River.

O pioneers!

1993
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

Nebraska

2004
Introduces the geography, history, government, people, culture, and attractions of Nebraska.

Nebraska

1978
Presents the history, resources, famous citizens, and points of interest in the Cornhusker State.

The prairie adventure of Sarah and Annie, blizzard survivors

2012
On January 12, 1888, when a blizzard blows off the roof of their schoolhouse on what had been an unseasonably warm day in Nebraska, Sarah and Annie are roped together with the other children and led by their teacher out into the storm and, hopefully, to the safety of her house.

My ?ntonia

2004
A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl.

The echo maker

2006
Karin Schulter reluctantly returns to her hometown to nurse her brother, Mark, back to health after he suffers a traumatic head injury in a car accident on a remote Nebraska road, but her task is made more difficult when he wakes from his coma only to claim that she is an imposter, and she turns to renowned neurologist Gerald Weber for help.

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