A Sandhills Ballad

Author : Ladette Randolph
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803240186

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A Sandhills Ballad by Ladette Randolph Pdf

After her life as she knows it ends in heartbreak, Mary Rasmussen, a strong-willed and independent young ranch woman living in the Sandhills of western Nebraska, suddenly feels that everything she has believed in--God, her instincts, the land itself--has failed her. She abandons her cultural and emotional ties, succumbing to circumstances she thinks she is powerless to control. In a rash decision, she marries a conservative, patriarchal preacher who doesn't understand her, the ranching community, or anything beyond his own beliefs. Mary's inner turmoil builds as she comes to appreciate the gravity of her situation and the need to take action.

Author : Monica Norby,Judy Diamond,Aaron Sutherlen,Sherilyn C. Fritz,Kim Hachiya,Doug Norby,Michael Forsberg
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496235831

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The Nebraska Sandhills by Monica Norby,Judy Diamond,Aaron Sutherlen,Sherilyn C. Fritz,Kim Hachiya,Doug Norby,Michael Forsberg Pdf

"Nearly forty essays about the history, geography, geology, ecology, and conservation of the Nebraska Sandhills, supplemented by numerous remarkable photos of the region"--

Author : Ladette Randolph
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496210777

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Haven's Wake by Ladette Randolph Pdf

Early July, and the corn in eastern Nebraska stands ten feet tall; after a near-decade of drought, it seems too good to be true, and everyone is watching the sky for trouble. For the Grebels, whose plots of organic crops trace a modest patchwork among the vast fields of soybeans and corn, trouble arrives from a different quarter in the form of Elsa’s voice on her estranged son’s answering machine: “Your father’s dead. You’ll probably want to come home.” When a tractor accident fells the patriarch of this Mennonite family, the threads holding them together are suddenly drawn taut, singing with the tensions of a lifetime’s worth of love and faith, betrayal and shame. Through the competing voices of those gathered for Haven Grebel’s funeral, acts of loyalty and failures, long-suppressed resentments and a tragic secret are brought to light, expressing a larger, complex truth.

Author : Philip A. Greasley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780253021168

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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two by Philip A. Greasley Pdf

The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.

Author : Ladette Randolph
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803245327

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Haven's Wake by Ladette Randolph Pdf

Early July, and the corn in eastern Nebraska stands ten feet tall; after a near-decade of drought, it seems too good to be true, and everyone is watching the sky for trouble. For the Grebels, whose plots of organic crops trace a modest patchwork among the vast fields of soybeans and corn, trouble arrives from a different quarter in the form of Elsa’s voice on her estranged son’s answering machine: “Your father’s dead. You’ll probably want to come home.” When a tractor accident fells the patriarch of this Mennonite family, the threads holding them together are suddenly drawn taut, singing with the tensions of a lifetime’s worth of love and faith, betrayal and shame. Through the competing voices of those gathered for Haven Grebel’s funeral, acts of loyalty and failures, long-suppressed resentments and a tragic secret are brought to light, expressing a larger, complex truth.

Author : Reyna Grande
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982165277

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A Ballad of Love and Glory by Reyna Grande Pdf

"A Long Petal of the Sea meets Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels in this epic historical romance about a Mexican woman and an Irish-American soldier who fall in love in the thick of the Mexican-American War"--

Author : Karen Gettert Shoemaker
Publisher : Red Hen Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597092777

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The Meaning of Names by Karen Gettert Shoemaker Pdf

A German-American woman copes with a pandemic, and her neighbors’ hostility during the Great War, in “a heart-rending story of endurance” (Historical Novel Society). Stuart, Nebraska is a long way from the battlefields of Western Europe, but it is not immune to the horrors of the first Great War for Peace. Like all communities, it has lost sons and daughters to the fighting, with many more giving themselves over to the hatred only war can engender. Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times. Estranged from her parents because she married against their will, confronted with violence and prejudice against her people, and caught up in the midst of the worst plague the world has ever seen, Gerda Vogel, an American of German descent, must find the strength to keep her family safe from the effects of a war that threatens to consume the whole world. “Suddenly, ‘liberty cabbage’ replaces ‘sauerkraut’ on food menus, job advertisements warn ‘no krauts need apply,’ and neighbors demand the nearby university stop teaching courses in ‘that vile language’. . . . Shoemaker crafts eminently realistic characters; her descriptions of unreasonable fear and hatred are particularly effective.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Ladette Randolph
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496231185

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Private Way by Ladette Randolph Pdf

2023 Nebraska Book Award In 2015, when cyberbullies disrupt her life in Southern California, Vivi Marx decides to cut her cord with the internet and take her life offline for a year. She flees to the one place where she felt safe as a child--with her grandmother in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nevermind that her grandmother is long dead and she doesn't know anyone else in the state. Even before she meets her new neighbors on Fieldcrest Drive, Vivi knows she's made a terrible mistake, but every plan she makes to leave is foiled. Despite her efforts to outrun it, trouble follows her to Nebraska, just not in the ways she'd feared. With the help of her neighbors, Willa Cather's novels, and her own imagination, Vivi finds something she hadn't known she was searching for.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : MINN:31951P01128488S

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Western American Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Meade Seawell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:19016017

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Songs from the Sandhills by Meade Seawell Pdf

Author : Hans Andersen
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040463954

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The Sand-Hills of Jutland by Hans Andersen Pdf

Author : Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734074103

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The Sand -Hills of Jutland by Hans Christian Andersen Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Sand -Hills of Jutland by Hans Christian Andersen

Author : Ladette Randolph
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803239580

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A Different Plain by Ladette Randolph Pdf

O Pioneers! was oh so long ago, and yet Willa Cather's masterpiece has proven to be an enduring template for readers' notions of Nebraska writing. The short stories collected here, so richly various in style, theme, and subject matter, should put an end to any such plain thinking about writing from this anything-but-plain state. Nebraska writers all, the authors explore the Midwest, a vastness of small towns, corn, cattle, football, and family businesses. They also venture far afield, to desolate western lives, crowded urban relationships, poignant couplings, comic families, and the worldly idiosyncrasies of characters everywhere. Whether about aging or coming-of-age, leave-taking or coming home, falling apart or finding love, these stories represent contemporary fiction at its best, from the high style of Richard Dooling's "Immortal Man" to Kent Haruf's soft-spoken "Dancing," from Ron Hansen's "My Communist" to Jonis Agee's earthy, offbeat "Binding the Devil." Original, spirited, and surprising, these contemporary writings depict a modern world on the move and extend the tradition of great fiction from Nebraska into the twenty-first century.

Author : Meade Seawell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0331633353

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Songs from the Sandhills (Classic Reprint) by Meade Seawell Pdf

Excerpt from Songs From the Sandhills An' too much good makes worser still Fer bad that's here an' meant ter grow, Jist like potash fer things we till, Too strong burns up the seeds we sow. J ist like the flow'rs an' stagnant pools, Ter take what's bad the other dies; An' if it weren't fer slime an' fools, There'd be less blooms an' none that's wise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P01096374I

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Nebraska by Anonim Pdf