Ladette Randolph

• Sep-2004
• / General Fiction
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O Pioneers was oh so long ago, and yet Willa Cather's masterpiece has proven to be an enduring template for readers' notions of Nebraska writing. The short stories collected here, so richly various in style, theme, and subject matter, should put an ...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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The stories collected in This Is Not the Tropics come from the geographic center of a divided nation, and its protagonists evoke a split personality -- one half submerged in America’s own diehard mythology, the other half searching to esc...

• Apr-2009
• / General Fiction
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After her life as she knows it ends in heartbreak, Mary Rasmussen, a strong-willed and independent young ranch woman living in the Sandhills of western Nebraska, suddenly feels that everything she has believed in -- God, her instincts, the land ...

• Mar-2013
• / Christian
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Early July, and the corn in eastern Nebraska stands ten feet tall; after a near-decade of drought, it seems too good to be true, and everyone is watching the sky for trouble. For the Grebels, whose plots of organic crops trace a modest patchwork amon...

• Mar-2022
• / Literary
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2023 Nebraska Book Award In 2015, when cyberbullies disrupt her life in Southern California, Vivi Marx decides to cut her cord with the internet and take her life offline for a year. She flees to the one place where she felt safe as a child -- with h...