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The Prairie Trilogy is a series of three novels centered around life in the Midwest during the late 19th/early 20th centuries by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. First, in "O Pioneers!," we meet Alexandra Bergson, who inherits the family farm after her father dies and leaves her to care for her three siblings. While many immigrant families are giving up their farms and moving back to the city (or to their home countries), Alexandra decides to try to tough it out on the prairie.

The Prairie marks the final chapter in James Fenimore Cooper’s great saga of American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Though nearly ninety in 1804, Bumppo, now on the Great Plains, is still a competent frontiersman and trapper. Once more he is drawn into conflict with society in the form of an...

A vivid portrait of the American prairie, which rivals the rainforest in its biological diversity and, with little notice, is disappearing even faster “This book describes—in loving, living prose—one of the world’s greatest and most important landscapes. And it does so while there’s...

Prairie Fire is a guide for Red Counties to survive and thrive during what looks to be another Civil War brewing. Drawing on his experience in Special Forces with counterinsurgency, the author creates a step-by-step road map to making it out alive. Featuring the same gallows humor mixed with real-world examples as Concrete Jungle: A Green Beret's Guide to Urban Survival, Prairie Fire is the spiritual successor made specifically for those in rural areas.

Millions of fans of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true story of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder's biography.

Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making at least one friend. Acclaimed, award-winning author Linda Sue Park has placed a young half-Asian girl...

An illuminating, insider's journey through the world of Little House on the Prairie and beyond, from Dean Butler, who starred as Almanzo Wilder on the iconic show still beloved by millions of fans as it reaches its fiftieth anniversary. Cast just before his twenty-third birthday, Dean Butler...

Six of my best-selling Historical Western Romance stories! Stories full of powerful emotions, trust and betrayal, intrigue, family values and romance that will captivate you! Her Glimmer of Hope After years of caring for her younger sisters and tolerating a difficult home, Amy accepts a chance to become a mail-order bride and start fresh. She travels west to marry Mark, a man healing from a serious accident and hoping for a second chance. As they face challenges and uncover each other’s secrets, Amy and Mark grow closer, but can their new bond survive the past that won’t stay buried and...

A teenager convinced there’s more to a cousin’s estrangement than family friction leads to the exposure of a cult operating in plain sight. Prairie Nightingale, PI, has it all: great kids, a private detective agency run by brilliant women, and maybe a handsome FBI situationship. When her...

Briggs Brigman has been burned once before, and the last thing he needs is a beautiful wife who will spend hours in front of the mirror, primping herself. He knows how hard the prairie can be on a woman, and all he wants is a stalwart bride who won't complain about hauling water from the creek....

Narrated by actress Cherry Jones! Inspiration for Netflix's Little House on the Prairie series! The third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series. The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set...

Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation. He later distilled this monumental work into one volume that critics and readers alike consider his greatest work of nonfiction, as well as the most distinguished, authoritative biography of Lincoln ever published.

Growing up in an Illinois prairie town, Sandburg listened to stories of old-timers who had known Lincoln. By the time this single-volume edition was competed, he had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about our 16th president.

He’s the grumpy EMT next door. She’s the lonely artist listening through the wall. When their late-night desires collide, it’s not just heat that rises—it’s everything they’ve been trying to hide. After a messy breakup, Harper is starting over in a small town, working freelance and learning how to live alone. The one unexpected comfort? The late-night sounds from her neighbor’s apartment—specifically, the ones that involve moaning, swearing, and very little self-control.

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) was known as Prince of the Humanists - though a theologian, a Catholic priest and the leading European scholar of his time. A close friend of Sir Thomas More, Erasmus' writings had a strong influence on the growing movement for change in Christian...

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is Alison Arngrim's comic memoir of growing up as one of television's most memorable characters - the devious Nellie Oleson on the hit television show Little House on the Prairie. With behind-the-scenes stories from the set, as well as tales from her bohemian upbringing in West Hollywood and her headline-making advocacy work on behalf of HIV awareness and abused children, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is a must for fans of everything Little House.

The Complete Collection 13 Book in one boxed set! It has been rewritten by bestseller and Kindle All-Star author Kat Carson! This inspirational historical Wild West Romance series is about strong women on their quest to turn around their downtrodden situation, their triumphs of discovering real men and true love in the mid-and late 19th-century. Bonanza Brides Find Prairie Love Series Book 1 Secret’s Book 2 Bobbed Book 3 Broken Love Book 4 The School Master Book 5 Vagabond Heart Book 6 Mary’s English Gentleman Book 7 The Lost Bride Book 8 Belle’s Train Book 9 Fallacies of Love Book 10...

Cambodia, 1968. Officially, American soldiers are not there. Sergeant Cal Briggs is about to cross the border anyway. After nearly two decades in uniform, Briggs volunteers for one of the most secret assignments of the Vietnam War: MACV-SOG, the covert command sending small reconnaissance teams across the fence into enemy territory. As One-Zero of RT Kentucky, Briggs leads a team of American Special Forces soldiers and indigenous Bru fighters deep into northeast Cambodia. Their mission sounds simple: observe a vital section of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, count what moves through it, report by ...

She traded grading papers for prairie skies. He thought he’d buried his heart with the harvest. But when Kim time-travels into Cade’s rugged world, sparks fly—and not just from the fire he builds each night. She's all words and wonder. He’s all silence and soil. But love doesn’t need...

Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world.

Karen Grassle, the beloved actress who played Ma on Little House on the Prairie, grew up at the edge of the Pacific Ocean in a family where love was plentiful but alcohol wreaked havoc.