nebraska

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

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.

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.

Presents the life story of Mari Sandoz, born on the sandhills of Nebraska in 1896, telling how her life changed when, at the age of nine, she began attending school, and discussing how she fulfilled her dream of researching and writing the history of the Great Plains.

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

Mrs. Forrester, the resident aristocrat in the fading railroad town of Sweet Water, Nebraska, is widely admired for her attention to the conventions of her position as the wife of an executive, but privately she chafes at the restrictions that bind her to her much-older husband and their way of life.

Tells about the daily life and activities of a pioneer girl growing up on the prairies of Nebraska.

Presents essays in which the author meditates upon the joys and beauty of his small-town life in the Bohemian Alps of southeastern Nebraska.

When her teenage cousin moves in with her family on their Nebraska farm in 1899, eleven-year-old Cassie learns a lot, including the meaning of "heathen" and "bigot.".

An annotated edition of American author Willa Cather's 1913 novel about an independent young woman whose passion for the Nebraska prairie leads to her becoming a wealthy landowner.