2023
The Mystery of Hunting’s End
by Mignon Eberhart
Smack in the middle of the rolling desolation is Hunting’s End, a weekend lodge owned by the rich Kingery family. To that place socialite Matil Kingery invites a strange collection of guests — the same people who were at the lodge when her father died of “heart failure” exactly five years ago. She intends to find out which one of them murdered him. Check out this book from our catalog.
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2022
The Bones of Paradise
by Jonis Agee
The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a multi-generational family saga, set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sandhills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee—an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land. Check out this book from our catalog.
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2021
Prairie Forge: the Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II
by James J. Kimble
When Henry Doorly initially developed a plan to urge citizens to donate scrap metal to help with arms production, he had no idea that his plan would expand from Omaha to the entire state and then be used as a model for a national scrap drive. Prairie Forge draws readers into good discussions about the entire state’s participation in the challenge to provide scrap metal. The book covers every county’s participation in the Nebraska Plan, and how it fit into the larger effort on a national level. Check out this book from our catalog.
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