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Author
Series
Dakota trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Always Dakota: People are feeling good about living in Buffalo Valley again--the way they used to. They're confident about the future. Stalled lives are moving forward. People like Margaret Clemens are taking risks on new ventures and on lifelong dreams. On happiness. Margaret is a local rancher who's finally getting what she wants most--marriage to cowboy Matt Eilers. Her friends don't think Matt's such a bargain; neither did her father. But Margaret...
Author
Series
Forever Hilltop volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
American chillers volume 19
Publisher
AudioCraft
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Now living in Bismarck, North Dakota, Damon Richards, with his friends Kamryn and Jason, find themselves in an unwanted but unavoidable fight against fire-breathing night dragons.
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
Unlikely blessing: Alex Armstrong is a former city dweller who has just accepted his first parish assignment to a small community in the wilds of North Dakota. In Hilltop Township, Pastor Alex becomes familiar with the residents and their odd traditions, from julebukking to King Oscar's fish balls. And then there's the excitement the single pastor creates among the unmarried women in the community! Alex soon discovers that his new church home has...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them. Desperate,...
Author
Series
Return to Red River volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Thorliff must return home to North Dakota after an epidemic hits his home town.
91) Dust bowl diary
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
The author recounts her experiences growing up in North Dakota from 1928 to 1937 the years of the Dust bowl and Depression.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence--for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot. Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns: As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face in the fracklands around Standing Rock, and felt their...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them. Desperate,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
BADLANDS - Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective Cassie Dewell has been assigned as the new deputy sheriff of Grimstad, a place people used to be from, but were never headed to. Grimstad is now the oil capital of North Dakota. With oil comes money, with money comes drugs, and with drugs come the dirtiest criminals hustling to corner the market. In the small town...
95) Follow Me Down
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The Dakotas west of the Missouri comprise a vast, rugged, starkly inviting land dotted with ranches, ghost towns, Indian reservations, and nature preserves. This stunning new book captures the shifting moods and scenes of the western Dakotas - along the storied Missouri River, out on the grassy plains, within the otherworldy and forbidding badlands, and atop the pine-clad peaks of the Black Hills. Indian powwows, cattle roundups, and small-town saloon...
99) Dakota December
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Sheriff Caleb Stenesrude climbs over the gate in a blizzard and reaches up in time to catch the woman as she falls. To his astonishment, a small child, hanging on for dear life, falls with her. Under his breath he thanks the good Lord for bringing them this far and for a dog with a nose and ears to beat all. As the North Dakota storm continues to scream outside the house on the edge of town, Caleb tries to tend to the near-frozen mother and boy....