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1) O pioneers!
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Willa Cather established her reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent with the publication of O Pioneers!-the first of her books set in Nebraska. In this stirring romance of the Western prairies, the lives of two very different heroines unfold during a time when the wild lands of the frontier broke the spirit of many of America's hopeful Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrant farmers. When Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm as...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Morgan Llywelyn's masterly epic, The Irish Century, continues in 1949, a sequel to 1916 and 1921.
The struggle of the Irish people for independence is one of the compelling historical dramas of the twentieth century. 1949 tells the story of Ursula Halloran, a fiercely independent young woman who comes of age in the 1920s. The tragedy of Irish civil war gives way in the 1920s to a repressive Catholic state led by Eamon De Valera. Married women cannot...
3) Bittersweet
Author
Publisher
Avon/Bard
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Two women support each other in Nevada against the harsh reality of the ninteenth-century Old West.
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