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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
Image From L to R: Trinity Houchin, Ava Hoffschneider, Autumn Wissenburg, and Ella K. Gaskill 2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees Awarded at our 68th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference July 7, 2023 On Friday, June …
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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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Virtual Author Series: Alex Kava
Image Author Series Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Acclaimed mystery novelist 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 …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
Image Author Series Thursday, Aug 17, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register 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 …
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Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty
Image 148 Charles Street Cover Author Series Thursday, Oct 12, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Help us welcome Tracy Daugherty as he discusses his book 148 Charles Street. This novel explores the friendship between Willa Cather and Elizabeth Shepley …
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My Ántonia
Image Vintage cover of My Ántonia My Ántonia Book Club Resources In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, …
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