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1) Dakota Born
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English
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Lyndsay Snyder spent every summer of her childhood in Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, and, after returning to the small town to explore the secrets of her family's past, she makes a surprising decision to stay on as a teacher for the town's small school.
2) Dakota home
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Dakota series (Debbie Macomber) volume 2
Buffalo Valley trilogy volume 02
Buffalo Valley trilogy volume 2
Dakota trilogy volume 02
Buffalo Valley trilogy volume 02
Buffalo Valley trilogy volume 2
Dakota trilogy volume 02
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English
Description
Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, has found new life. People have started moving here-people like Lindsay Snyder, who came for one year to work as a teacher and stayed, marrying local farmer Gage Sinclair. And now Lindsay's closest friend, Maddy Washburn, has decided to pull up stakes and join her in Buffalo Valley, hoping for the same kind of contentment. And the same kind of love...Jeb McKenna is a rancher, a man who's learned to endure, as the Dakota...
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Dakota series (Debbie Macomber) volume 3
Macomber Debbie volume 3
Buffalo Valley trilogy volume 3
Dakota trilogy volume 03
Macomber Debbie volume 3
Buffalo Valley trilogy volume 3
Dakota trilogy volume 03
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English
Description
Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, rancher Margaret Clemens is feeling confident about the future and is finally getting what she wants most--marriage to cowboy Matt Eilers. She's aware of Matt's reputation, but she wants him anyway--and she wants his baby.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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After coming to America, building a business and a home for his family, the butcher starts a singing club, consisting of the town locals. The story spans World War I through World War II and beyond 1954, full of memorable characters.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
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English
Description
"One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude....
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Red River of the North volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Ingeborg, her husband Roald, and their son immigrate to America with high hopes in 1880. When New York doesn't measure up to their expectations, they continue westward until reaching the Dakota territory. The family must struggle to achieve their dream.
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Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well define her state of mind. Abandoned by her mother as a child, mistreated by her father, and teased by her schoolmates ('Hey, Olive Oyl, where's Popeye?'), the lonely girl finds solace in artistic pursuits. Only when she's hired by the town's sole feminist to work the night shift in the local thread factory does Violet come into her name, and bloom. Accepted...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
960L
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English
Description
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
10) Buffalo Valley
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Series
Dakota series (Debbie Macomber) volume 4
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English
Description
Vaughn Kyle, just out of the army, is hired by Value-X, a retail conglomerate that also employs his girlfriend, but he begins to question his loyalties and feelings when he travels to Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, to scope out the small town targeted by the discount giant, and finds not only a thriving downtown, but people he soon comes to respect and cherish.
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After graduating in May of 1900, Andrew Bjorklund and Ellie Wold of Blessing, North Dakota make plans to marry once the harvest is over and their new house is finished. They spend the summer working hard, and the Lord seems to shine on and in them in a special way. Everyone rejoices in their happiness. Everyone except for Toby Valders, who is determined to get even for all the drubbings he has taken from Andrew through the years. Andrew, however,...
13) Rebecca's reward
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Daughters of blessing volume 4
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English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard has experienced more than her share of sorrow, and now she is afraid to open her heart to love. Besides, no man has ever shown enough interest in her to come courting. So Rebecca's friends set out to remedy the situation, concocting social events to attract all the eligible bachelors in Blessing and advising her in the use of feminine wiles. When none of these efforts seem to work, Rebecca tries yet another tack, only...
14) A touch of grace
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Daughters of blessing volume 3
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English
Description
Set in early 20th-century North Dakota, this third series title (after A Promise for Ellie and Sophie's Dilemma) features 18-year-old Grace Knutson. Drawn to Toby Valders, Grace finds her loyalties tested when the son of a wealthy New York family arrives in town.
16) LaRose
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North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with...
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"Though she has known hardships in her life, Ingeborg Bjorklund chooses to focus on all she has been given. Blessed with children and grandchildren, she enjoys the friendship and support of the entire Blessing, North Dakota, community. And after several years of widowhood, she has reached a place of contentment with her life. Meanwhile, her stepson Thorliff is raising two children alone since his beloved Elizabeth died. But there is a new schoolteacher...
18) The bitterroots
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"Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nonetheless managing...until an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young girl from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out in the Big Sky Country of Montana, twisted family...
20) Badlands
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"Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is back with a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won't soon forget. Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective Cassie Dewell has been assigned as the new deputy sheriff of Grimstad-a place people used to be from, but were never headed to. Grimstad is now the oil capital of North...
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