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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the cluster of low drab buildings huddled on the gray prairie, under a gray sky. The dwelling-houses were set about haphazard on the tough prairie sod, some of them looked as if they had been moved in over...

Anrührend, komisch, unvergesslich: die Geschichte dreier Geschwister mit ungewöhnlichen Vorlieben Jeder in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska, kennt die Geschichte von Hope Jones. Die Ehefrau des einzigen Arztes im Ort wurde 1978 von einem gewaltigen Tornado in die Lüfte entführt, um nie mehr zurückzukehren. Ihre drei Kinder haben diesen Verlust nie verwunden. Auch als Erwachsene finden sie nicht wirklic...

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I FIRST HEARD OF Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then, I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska. I travelled in the care of a mountain boy, Jake Marpole, one of the `hands on my fathers old ...

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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the cluster of low drab buildings huddled on the gray prairie, under a gray sky. The dwelling-houses were set about haphazard on the tough prairie sod, some of them looked as if they had been moved in over...

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In CliffsNotes on My Antonia, you follow the story of Jim, an orphaned boy who travels to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. Upon arriving, Jim meets the uplifting, spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family that plans to fa...

Edythe Amsel is delighted with her first teaching assignment: a one-room schoolhouse in Walnut Hill, Nebraska. Independent, headstrong, and a strong believer in a well-rounded education, Edythe is ready to open the world to the students in this tiny community. But is Walnut Hill ready for her? Joel Townsend is thrilled to learn the town council hired a female teacher to replace the ruthless man...

O Pioneers!, Willa Cathers first great novel, is the classic American story of pioneer life as embodied by one remarkable woman and her singular devotion to the land. Alexandra Bergson arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Nebraska as a young girl and grows up to turn it into a prosperous farm. In this unforgettable story,Cather conveys both the physical realities of the landscape, as well as ...

Alfie Crane accepts a lift from Boston to San Francisco from fellow college student Brad as hes too broke to take the bus. When they argue, he finds himself being thrown out of the car with only his wallet and the clothes he stands up in. After walking for miles, he reaches the tiny town of Paradise, Nebraska. He is desperate for help, and is taken in by diner owner Ray Rendell, whos looking fo...

After the death of his parents, Jim is sent to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska plains. By chance on that same train is a bright-eyed girl, Antonia, who will become his neighbor and lifelong friend. Her family has emigrated from Bohemia to start a new life farming but soon lose their money and must work had just to survive. Through it all, Antonia retains her natural pride and free sp...

LAST summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to have for a traveling companion James Quayle Burden Jim Burden, as we still call him in the West. He and I are old friends we grew up together in the same Nebraska town and we had much to say to each other. While the train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat, by countr...

Sixteen Civil War widows living in St. Louis respond to a series of meetings conducted by a land speculator who lures them west by promising prime homesteads in a booming community. Unbeknownst to them, the speculators true motive is to find an excuse to bring women to the fledging community of Plum Grove, Nebraska, in hopes they will accept marriage proposals shortly after their arrival!

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In the town of Eden in northwestern England stands the exclusive boarding school known as Archangel Academy. Ancient and imposing, its a place filled with secrets. Just like its students. . .

For Michael Howard, being plucked from his Nebraska hometown and sent thousands of miles away is as close as hes ever come to a miracle. In Weeping Water, he felt trapped, alone. At Archangel Academy, Mi...

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Drei Aussteiger, die sich auf den abgründigsten Trip ihres Lebens begeben: Ryan gerät in die Fänge eines Mannes, der als hochkrimineller Identitätsräuber sein Geld verdient. Es ist sein eigener Vater. Miles ist auf der Suche nach seinem Zwillingsbruder. Der leidet an Schizophrenie und ist seit zehn Jahren verschwunden. Lucy verliebt sich in i...