Ferber, Edna
Summary: Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran and Company 1930
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FERSumner, Jamie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: In Oklahoma, a depressed Vietnam veteran in a wheelchair gets a new lease on life, thanks to an Indian woman he hires for his roadside cafe. A look at the power of love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETTingle, Tim
Summary: When his mother leaves, sixteen-year-old Bobby, a Choctaw, begins living in a hole in his backyard to avoid his abusive father, and is surprised to find friends and neighbors willing to help him. Inspired by the traditional Choctaw story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TINLackey, Kris
Summary: Nail's Crossing In a remote corner of the Chickasaw Nation, tribal Lighthorse policeman Bill Maytubby and county deputy Hannah Bond discover the buzzard-ravaged body of a young drifter. Their investigation propels them deep into Louisiana bayou country on the scent of a bizarre conspiracy. Greasy Bend After a farmer discovers a body snagged on cottonwood roots in the Washita River, Johnston...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC LACDurbin, William
Summary: Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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Summary: Life is better for Choctaw teenager Bobby Byington as he returns to the basketball team, helps teammate Lloyd and neighbor Faye through some difficulties, and sees his family drawing close again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2017
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Summary: As the basketball playoffs draw near, Chocktaw teen Bobby Byington shares the legend of No Name with his teammates, who are dealing with family problems all too familiar to him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TINCoulson, Art
Summary: Eleven-year-old Cherokee Zach Feather is going on his first pheasant hunting trip in Oklahoma with his parents, his first ever bird dog (Koda), and his grandfather's shotgun; but when the hunt gets started he discovers that there is a lot more to hunting than he realized and he needs to learn patience--if he survives his encounter with a very annoyed rattlesnake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2022
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Summary: In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. in a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. A terrible accident...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HESJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "There's a storm brewing in Oklahoma Territory, and this time, it's deadly serious. Local cattle ranches are being targeted by Texas rustlers - and the only man who can keep it from turning into a bloodbath is U.S. Deputy Marshal Will Tanner. The newly married lawman hates to leave his beautiful bride Sophie, but duty calls - for better or worse. In Tanner's experience, it's usually worse. An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHMedawar, Mardi Oakley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDMeadows, Rae
Summary: "Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Ficiton Meadows 2016Hesse, Karen.
Summary: In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HESNayeri, Daniel
Summary: "At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Nayeri 2020Tharp, Tim
Summary: In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara Juvenil 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH THAMorrison, Toni.
Summary: Ruby, Oklahoma, was settled by nine African-American clans during the 1940s, but now the four women who occupy the Convent, an abandoned mansion not far from town, are the scapegoats for the ancestral feuds and financial and political troubles of the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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Summary: Excited to go on his first family hunting trip, twelve-year-old Rodney learns Cherokee traditions, gun safety, and patience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COULeonard, Elmore
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M LEOShuler, Linda Lay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow and Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHUTharp, Tim
Summary: In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 205 FIC THABernhardt, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERLeonard, Elmore
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004