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42) The land
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
Language
English
Description
Paul-Edward, the son of a part-Indian, part-African slave mother and a White plantation owner father, finds himself caught between the two worlds of his parents as he pursues his dream of owning land in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Series
Holland family saga volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted...
45) Little women
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The beloved story of the March girls is a classic American feminist novel, reflecting the tension between cultural obligation and artistic and personal freedom."--
Author
Series
Sergeant John Bogdanovic mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
During the Civil War, a young man battles Indians, bandits and deserters as he escorts two camels, loaded with war loot across Kansas and Missouri. On the way he meets a boy who turns out to be a girl and falls in love.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For more than fifty years, Willie Nelson has wondered about the real-life Texas street vendor, selling wrappings and ribbons, who inspired his classic Christmas song, 'Pretty Paper.' He now aims to give the man one last shot at redemption and a chance to embody the holiday spirit in an inspiring holiday novel"--
49) The quilt
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Language
English
Description
During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 156
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Here, in one authoritative Library of America volume, are all three of the beloved ''Little Woman'' books as Louisa May Alcott wrote them, with original engravings.
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York-based writer Ralph Parker is back in his mythical hometown of Hohman, Indiana to write an article on this blue-collar Midwestern town for a magazine. Between drinks at his old friend Flick's tavern, Ralph reminisces on his childhood experiences in Hohman during the Depression."--Amazon.com.
55) The pilots
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
A novel told through a collection of vignettes follows the adventures of boyhood friends who take different military paths, a combat-weary flight surgeon, a captain with a troubled past, and a woman who affects all of them.
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
�2001
Language
English
Description
This is a rare document, one that gives us an unusual view of daily life among the aristocracy in the early 1900's, a window into one woman's hidden emotional torment, and a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized society at the time.
Author
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
In this sweeping novel of love and hate, Abby Palmer's life story is a study in contrasts. She calls up the courage to battle debilitating episodes of multiple sclerosis, yet is too cowardly to admit she has the disease. Abby finds the strength to survive the almost simultaneous deaths of her mother, her husband, and her unborn child, but is too weak to fight her brother's cruel domination.
She is cared for by friends and abandoned by her family...
Author
Publisher
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Seemingly based on portions of the author's life this work combines many elements while telling the story: stories of the airline industry, the war in Iraq, online dating, quaint tiny towns in Kansas, magical Clydesdales, PTSD, TBI, and desperately trying to find sanity in an insane world.
