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Pub. Date
[2018]
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Publisher Annotation: Tender, searing, and unforgettable, The Distance Home is a profoundly American story spanning decades?a tale of haves and have-nots, of how our ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, lead us inevitably into various problems with empathy and caring for one another. It?s a portrait of beauty and brutality in which the author?s compassionate narration allows us to sympathize, in turn, with everyone involved.
22) Badlands
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend, Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree.
23) Fargo: year two
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The second chapter is set in 1979 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Luverne, Minnesota, where young State Police Officer Lou Solverson, recently back from Vietnam, will tackle an all-new 'true crime' case.
24) The little bride
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Sixteen-year-old Russian Jewish mail-order bride, Minna Losk finds herself stranded in the prairies of South Dakota married to a man twice her age and falling in love with her nineteen-year-old step-son.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"... Linda Hasselstrom contemplates the changing nature of community in the modern West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into mean, congested cities. Her scrutiny, like her life, moves back and forth between her ranch on the South Dakota prairie and her house in an old neighborhood at the edge of downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming"--Jacket.
28) A heart for home
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Series
Home to blessing novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Astrid and Joshua discover God's plans for them through difficult circumstances in the conclusion to this prairie romance series set in South Dakota.
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After fleeing North Dakota and the now defunct Wild West Show, Cassie Lockwood and her companions have finally found the hidden valley in South Dakota where her father had dreamed of putting down roots. But to her dismay, she discovers a ranch already built on her land. Cassie's arrival surprises Mavis Engstrom and forces her to reveal secrets she's kept hidden for years. Her son Ransom is suspicious of Cassie and questions the validity of her claim...
31) Legacy: a novel
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Brigitte Nicholson becomes hooked after she discovers a mystery in their family's past: how did a Dakota Sioux princess end up buried in Brittany as a noblewoman alongside a distant relative? Brigitte's quest to learn the story of the Marquise de Margerac (n�ee Wachiwi) takes her from Salt Lake City to Sioux Falls, S.D., and eventually to Paris, where she meets Marc Henri, a fetching Sorbonne literature professor.
32) Fargo year 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Okey-dokey, watcha got here is the darkly humorous and utterly riveting third season. Ewan McGregor gives one heckuva performance in dual roles as the âParking Lot King of Minnesota,â Emmit Stussy, and his younger brother, Ray, a potbellied parole officer with a big chip on his shoulder. The only bright spot in Rayâs life is Nikki, a not-so-good woman with brains, beauty and a passion for competitive bridge.
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Carlisle McMillan, a traveler and master carpenter seeking a place of quiet amid the grinding roar of progress. Near Wolf Butte, a strange and apparently haunted monolith, he finds his quiet, or so he believes, and begins rebuilding a decrepit house as a tribute to the gruff old man who taught him a carpenter's skills, rebuilding his life at the same time. He finds two very different, independent women: Gally Deveraux, who works at a diner in Salamander...
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The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized outpost ride a disillusioned and bitter ex-lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Seth Bullock, a man hoping to find a new start for himself. Both men find themselves quickly on opposite sides of the legal and moral fence from Al Swearengen, saloon owner, hotel operator, and incipient boss of Deadwood. The lives of these three intertwine with many others,...
36) Home fires
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Welcome to the Lazy Windmill, where guests find that life is what you make it, love is priceless, and family is determined by far more than DNA. Casie Carmichael's accidental dude ranch is well on its way, but the residents of her Hope Springs haven are running wild. With an unwed mother-to-be, a turbulent teen romance, and a bronc-riding grandmother to contend with, the last thing Casie has time for is a romantic relationship. But convincing recently...
37) The divorce colony: how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"--
Author
Pub. Date
2009
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Description
Twenty-year-old Mattie O'Keefe travels to Deadwood, South Dakota, in search of her brother, whose letters boasted of making a fortune in the gold fields. Once there, Mattie undertakes gold mining herself, until a handsome preacher speaks out against storing up treasures on earth and she has to decide where true riches lie.
39) Valley of dreams
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Cassie Lockwood's mother died when she was little, so Cassie traveled with her father's Wild West show and became an amazingly skillful trick rider. When her father died, Cassie stayed with the show. Now she's discovered that "Uncle" Jason, the show's manager, has driven the show into debt and absconded with what little was left. Devastated, Cassie decides to try to find the hidden valley where her father had dreamed of putting down roots.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Jane Albright, a newly widowed mother of one child who is pregnant with another, is forced to deal with Franklin Lloyd, a greedy moneylender, by hauling freight all the way to Deadwood, South Dakota, to keep her freighting business alive, and as she works to salvage her family's future, she slowly earns Lloyd's admiration.