Erdrich, Louise.
Summary: Summoned by his grandmother, Lipsha returns to the reservation where he falls in love with Shawnee Ray. He finds himself at crossroads torn between success and meaning, love and money, the future and the past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Lindsay Snyder returns to Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, to visit her old family house, "to explore family secrets and to reevaluate her life," and decides to stay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACLandvik, Lorna
Summary: In a novel set during the early days of rock 'n' roll, Violet Mathers, a down-and-out woman, becomes embroiled with a handsome musical pioneer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANSnelling, Lauraine.
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She is receiving hands-on training from Dr. Elizabeth, the local doctor in the town of Blessing, North Dakota, and Astrid's sister-in-law. When Dr. Elizabeth encourages her to pursue formal training in Chicago, Astrid is torn between finally realizing her dream and leaving her family and friends behind in Blessing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SNEMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: Maddy Washburn, Lindsay Snyder's closest friend, arrives in Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, seeking a new life and encounters Jeb McKenna, a lonely rancher, who is thrown together with Maddy during a fiece and fateful storm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACSnelling, Lauraine.
Summary: Certain she can't live without Hamre Bjorklund, the impetuous Sophie Knutson rejects her father's request to postpone her marriage until after graduation and convinces Hamre to elope. But far from her family, Sophie finds that life as a fisherman's bride in Ballard, Washington, is not all she had envisioned. Pregnant and lonely while Hamre is away at sea, she hires on at a fish cannery, only...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SNEErdrich, Louise.
Summary: Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family--which includes Eva and four sons--and a singing club consisting of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDSnelling, Lauraine.
Summary: Life in Blessing, North Dakota, becomes difficult when courageous and gentle Grace Knutson is presented with an agonizing dilema.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SNESnelling, Lauraine.
Summary: Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard has experienced more than her share of sorrow, and now she is afraid to open her heart to love. 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 her feminine wiles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SNEMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: A young woman travels to Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, and finds herself drawn to a rancher who, by choice, leads a solitary life. He rejects her openhearted overtures until a deadly storm throws them together, bringing unexpected consequences for both of them and everyone in Buffalo Valley
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACSnelling, Lauraine
Summary: In the first decade of the twentieth century, "Miriam is in Blessing [N.D.] to get practical training to become an accredited nurse. She's been promised a position in the Chicago women's hospital that will enable her to support her siblings and her ailing mother. Although eager to return to her family, Miriam is surprised to find how much she enjoys the small town of Blessing. And her growing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SNECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Snelling 2014Copeland, Lori.
Summary: "Mae Wilkey's sweet next-door neighbor, Pauline, is suffering from old age and dementia and desperately needs family to come help her. But Pauline can't recall having kin remaining. Mae searches through her desk and finds a name--Tom Curtis, who may justbe the answer to their prayers."--P. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COPSteel, Danielle.
Summary: This centuries-spanning novel interweaves the lives of two women: a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is a story of courage in the face of the unknown.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEScheibe, Amy.
Summary: "[Emmaline] Nelson and her sister Birdie grow up in the hard, cold, rural, Lutheran world of strict parents, strict milking times, and strict morals. Marriage is preordained, the groom practically predestined. Though it's 1958, southern Minnesota did not see changing roles for women on the horizon. Caught in a time bubble between a world war and the ferment of the 1960s, Emmy doesn't see that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCopeland, Lori.
Summary: After rescuing Trinity Franklin from a band of thugs, Jones and Trinity begin a fast-paced adventure on their way to a small town in North Dakota--a chance meeting that turns into a charming ending when God intervenes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COPCogan, Priscilla
Summary: Crack at Dusk: Crook of Dawn, the third novel in The Winona Trilogy, continues to explore the deep divide between the modern psychological view of life and the traditional Lakota (Sioux) spiritual perspective, following the same characters: Dr. Meggie O'Connor, the psychologist and Hawk, the Lakota medicine teacher. In Crack at Dusk: Crook of Dawn, the two lovers marry but soon find their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC COG1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COG