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The Song of the Lark
Image Vintage cover of The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark Book Club Resources In this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines. Thea Kronberg, a minister's daughter in a …
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One of Ours
Image One of Ours Book Club Resources Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for …
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Lucy Gayheart
Image Lucy Gayheart Book Club Resources Lucy Gayheart is a bright eighteen-year-old who heads to the big city of Chicago, leaving behind the small-town politics of Haverford, Nebraska, in 1902. Lucy is pursuing the art of music and eventually attracts the …
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Image Death Comes for the Archbishop Book Club Resources Father Jean Marie Latour is a French Jesuit priest who is sent on mission to the newly acquired southwestern part of the United States in 1851. He brings with him, Father Joseph Vaillant to travel …
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Shadows on the Rock
Image Shadows on the Rock Book Club Resources Shadows on the Rock (1931) follows apothecary Euclide Auclair and his daughter Cecile living together in 1697 Quebec. Cecile is a precocious and unique girl who feels at home in the foreign port town as she …
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Alexander's Bridge
Image Alexander's Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious engineer, Bartley Alexander. Bartley lives in Boston with his affluent wife, Winifred, a professional musician. From the outside, his life …
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O Pioneers!
Image Vintage cover of O Pioneers! O Pioneers! Book Club Resources O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical …
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2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees
… Autumn Wissenburg, and Ella K. Gaskill 2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees … Willa Skupa Turner, and National Willa Cather Center scholarships. Six students presented their winning essays at … with conference participants. The Norma Ross Walter Scholarship winners are: Ella Gaskill (Lincoln Southeast …
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The <i>Ties</I> That Bind
Image Image Image Image An Art Exhibit by Betty Kort Art Gallery Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | 12am - Saturday, Aug 19, 2023 | 12am We are delighted to bring a special exhibition by Hastings artist Betty Kort to the newly restored Burlington Depot! The Ties …
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A Lost Lady
Image Vintage cover of A Lost Lady A Lost Lady Book Club Resources "If her image flashed into his mind, it came with a brightness of dark eyes, her pale triangular cheeks with long earrings, and her many-coloured laugh. When he was dull, dull and tired of …
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