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Etiquette Fiction Family life Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Juvenile fiction Historical fiction Minnesota History 19th century Fiction Missing persons Fiction Swedish Americans FictionWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Bros. 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WILWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Bros. 1981
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WILPeterson, Tracie
Summary: 1905. Caleb Coulter, a lawyer, went missing three months ago. His sister, Camriann, heads to San Francisco to find him. She meets Judith and Kenzie, who also have mysteries to solve in the booming West Coast city. Camri's search leads her deep into the political corruption of the city-- and into the acquaintance of Patrick Murdock, an Irishman who Caleb saved from a false murder charge....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Peterson 2018Wick, Lori.
Summary: Pretty new schoolteacher Marcail Donovan finds herself in the center of a small-town scandal when she is forced by a snowstorm to spend the night at the home of young Dr. Alexander Montgomery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WICCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLIPeterson, Tracie
Summary: Hope Flanagan survived the massacre at the Whitman Mission, but at terrible personal cost. Safe now in Oregon City, she lives with her sisters, Grace and Mercy, and Grace's new husband, Alex. As she spends her days tending their flock of sheep, Hope's mind and soul are slowly healing. Yet, though she was once surrounded by suitors, she has no interest in giving her heart again after the man she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Peterson 2017Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WILErnst, Kathleen
Summary: When Kirsten's new friend Erik disappears, she has to figure out whether he ran away to get out of some promises he made, or whether something else has happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNErnst, Kathleen
Summary: When Kirsten's new friend Erik disappears, she has to figure out whether he ran away to get out of some promises he made, or whether something else has happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J AGM ErnstWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Brothers 1981
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WILHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLBenton, Lori
Summary: "This epic conclusion in Lori Benton's Pathfinders series, with two brothers, separated at birth, destined to collide at the edge of the Revolutionary War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBrooks, Bill
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Rivers, Francine
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Rivers 2022Kay, Verla.
Summary: Two brothers spend a year attending a one-room schoolhouse on the frontier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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Summary: Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SPEPeterson, Tracie
Summary: With the aid of trapper Alex Armistead, widow Grace Martindale uses her midwifery skills to help the natives in the untamed Oregon Country, but not everyone welcomes her presence, and she finds herself in more danger than she could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Peterson 2017L'Amour, Louis
Summary: Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly -- a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe -- until the day Reilly's luck ran out in a roar of gunfire. But it wasn't...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011
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Summary: "He blew into town like a tornado--a mysterious stranger with money to burn and a sadistic streak as wide as the Rio Grande. He says his name is Benson and he's come to invest in the town's future. First, he showers the banks and local businesses with cash. Then, he hires a pair of drunks to fight and get arrested so he can check out the local lawmen. After that, he warms up to a lady of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHSummary: Darby O'Gill and the little people (1959, 91 min., full screen): An old storyteller falls into a well and meets a group of leprechauns. The leprechauns give him three wishes to get his life together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DISPeterson, Melissa (Melissa A.)
Summary: Laura Ingalls and her sisters share many adventures while growing up on the American frontier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1997
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE WILVaughan, Robert
Summary: "Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and over 2,000 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which was built to carry cargo, not men. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC VAUMacLachlan, Patricia.
Summary: When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1994