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Lucy Gayheart

… to the big city of Chicago, leaving behind the small-town politics of Haverford, Nebraska, in 1902. Lucy is pursuing … Lucy Gayheart  (1935) was Cather’s last novel set on the Great Plains and has drawn critical attention to it as a gothic …
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Death Comes for the Archbishop

… Catholicism.   Instead of the Nebraska prairies that made Willa Cather famous, Death Comes for the Archbishop … narratives which helped solidify her as an extraordinary American author.  Download Discussion Questions Buy the book …
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O Pioneers!

… who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous …
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The <i>Ties</I> That Bind

… "—railroads that brought them and their neighbors to Nebraska in the first place, railroads that put towns on the …
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Virtual Author Series: Alex Kava

… will be on hand to talk about her impressive career as a Nebraska author who writes in the tradition of other Nebraska mystery novelists such as the late Mignon … Mystery of Hunting's End , Eberhart's 1930 book set in the Nebraska Sand Hills is the 2023 One Book One Nebraska …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann

… Online Now Join us for an engaging conversation about Nebraska memoir with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann, two writers with Nebraska roots who explore the world in order to learn more … of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled forests of …
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Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty

… and Mary Evershed, astronomer and Dante scholar. His biography of Larry McMurtry is forthcoming from St. Martin’s …
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My Ántonia

… Image Vintage cover of My Ántonia My Ántonia Book Club Resources In this symphonically powerful …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… documenting the arrival of Carnegie Libraries throughout Nebraska, published interviews with Andrew Carnegie and …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing

… with Part I of  The Song of the Lark  reflects the colorful people and cultures in which the irrepressible Thea Kronborg … Playlist II   Part III: "Stupid Faces" Part IV: "The Ancient People" The music serving as backdrop to Part III … Arizona, relishing time spent in the natural beauty of the ancient cliff dwellings, where she begins to recover her …
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