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Red River of the North volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Proud of Their Heritage and Sustained by Their Faith, They Came to Tame a New Land She had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would not look back. After three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund, along with their son, Thorliff, finally arrive at the docks of New York City. It was the promise of free land that fed their dream and lured them from their...
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Dakota series (Debbie Macomber) volume 4
Language
English
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Vaughn Kyle, just out of the army, is hired by Value-X, a retail conglomerate that also employs his girlfriend, but he begins to question his loyalties and feelings when he travels to Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, to scope out the small town targeted by the discount giant, and finds not only a thriving downtown, but people he soon comes to respect and cherish.
Author
Series
Red River of the North volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Ever so slowly Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmland. With the coming of the railroad, the small town of Blessing begins to prosper, and the Bjorklund family is reaping the promised harvest that had lured them from their beloved home in Norway. But for Ingeborg and Haakan, realizing their dreams will not come without a struggle. After their own fields are harvested, Haakan and the neighboring men take the steam...
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Series
Dakota diaries volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Mae Wilkey's lives next to a sweet elderly lady with dementia, who doesn't think she has any family to help her, but Mae searches and may have found her long lost nephew who comes to see her in North Dakota in 1892.
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Amos Decker—the FBI consultant with a perfect memory—returns to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town in the newest thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series.
When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving fracking town is ripe...
When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving fracking town is ripe...
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Daughters of blessing volume 4
Language
English
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Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard's hopes of finding love are abetted by her friends who arrange social events and other casual encounters with eligible bachelors, but her life changes direction when she travels to Bismarck, North Dakota, to learn how to operate a soda shop, which she plans on opening in Blessing, and meets a sophisticated and charming young man.
8) Dakota home
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Maddy Washburn moves to Buffalo Valley hoping to find the same love and contentment her friend Lindsay found in the small North Dakota town, and is immediately drawn to bison ranger Jeb McKenna, but Jeb rejects her overtures until they are thrown together for several days waiting out a storm.
Author
Series
Daughters of blessing volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Return to Blessing, North Dakota, with the story of Andrew Bjorklund and Ellie Wold. After graduating in May of 1900, the two make plans to marry once the harvest is over and their new house is finished. They spend the summer working hard, and the Lord seems to shine on and in them in a special way. Everyone rejoices in their happiness. Everyone except for Toby Valders, who is determined to get even for all the drubbings he has taken from Andrew through...
10) A touch of Grace
Author
Series
Daughters of blessing volume 3
Language
English
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Description
She thought she knew what she wanted in life . . . then Jonathan arrived.Eighteen-year-old Grace Knutson loves Blessing, North Dakota, and sees no reason to leave. She's more serious-minded than her twin sister, Sophie, and very sensitive to the feelings of others. In spite of her family's disapproval, Grace has always had a soft spot in her heart for Toby Valders, for she's seen the vulnerable side he keeps well hidden. Jonathan Gould, the handsome...
11) Always Dakota
Author
Series
Dakota series (Debbie Macomber) volume 3
Language
English
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Despite the misgivings of her friends and family, local rancher Margaret Clemens decides to take a chance at happiness by marrying cowboy Matt Eilers.
12) Wild life
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in a small town in North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.
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English
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WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WASHINGTON POST, AMAZON, NPR, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF 2020
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is back with a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won't soon forget. Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairieto 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...
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Series
Red River of the North volume 7
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"Though she has known hardships in her life, Ingeborg Bjorklund chooses to focus on all she has been given. Blessed with children and grandchildren, she enjoys the friendship and support of the entire Blessing, North Dakota, community. And after several years of widowhood, she has reached a place of contentment with her life .Meanwhile, her stepson Thorliff is raising two children alone since his beloved Elizabeth died. But there is a new schoolteacher...
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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
In 1951 North Dakota, years after losing her son in a horse riding accident, Margaret Blackledge seeks to retrieve her grandson from the daughter-in-law who ran off with another man but finds her efforts challenged by her reluctant husband and the boy's stepfamily.
19) Sophie's dilemma
Author
Series
Daughters of blessing volume 2
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
Fan-Favorite Lauraine Snelling Delivers Another Hit Novel Certain she can't live without Hamre Bjorklund, the impetuous Sophie Knutson rejects her father's request to postpone her marriage until after graduation and convinces Hamre to elope. But life as a fisherman's bride in Seattle is not at all that Sophie had envisioned. Pregnant and lonely while Hamre's out at sea, she hires on at a fish cannery, only to be fired after fainting on the job. When...
20) Love medicine
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Perennial ed.
Language
English
Description
The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love.
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