[PDF] Pioneer Girl eBook

Author : Bich Minh Nguyen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698151372

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From an award-winning author, a novel about a Vietnamese American family’s ties to The Little House on the Prairie Jobless with a PhD, Lee Lien returns home to her Chicago suburb from grad school, only to find herself contending with issues she’s evaded since college. But when her brother disappears, he leaves behind an object from their mother’s Vietnam past that stirs up a forgotten childhood dream: a gold-leaf brooch, abandoned by an American reporter in Saigon back in 1965, that might be an heirloom belonging to Laura Ingalls Wilder. As Lee explores the tenuous facts of this connection, she unearths more than expected—a trail of clues and enticements that lead her from the dusty stacks of library archives to hilarious prairie life reenactments and ultimately to San Francisco, where her findings will transform strangers’ lives as well as her own. A dazzling literary mystery about the true origins of a time-tested classic, Pioneer Girl is also the deeply moving tale of a second-generation Vietnamese daughter, the parents she struggles to honor, the missing brother she is expected to bring home—even as her discoveries yield dramatic insights that will free her to live her own life to its full potential.

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803225268

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Describes the early childhood and life of Grace Snyder, whose family owned a Nebraska homestead in the late nineteenth century and endured the hardships and dangers of the prairie.

Author : Nancy Tystad Koupal
Publisher : South Dakota State Historical Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781941813089

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"A publication of the Pioneer Girl Project."

Author : William Anderson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0062570595

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In this charming, accessible biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, noted Wilder historian William Anderson takes us beyond the Little House books to share the real-life events that inspired Laura’s classic stories. Black-and-white interior illustrations by Renée Graef further enhance this look at one of America’s most beloved authors, perfect for chapter book readers.

Author : Marissa Moss
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780152021689

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In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family's adventures traveling by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850.

Author : Megan Stine
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 1992-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0440405785

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When Laura Ingalls Wilder was a little girl in the late 1800's, her family moved nine times in three years. The Wilders faced great hardships on the prairie. The crops they planted were destroyed by grasshoppers. Brutal snowstorms brought them close to starvation. But for Laura, who was born with her father's pioneer spirit, home wasn't a house--it was being with Ma, Pa, Mary, and baby Carrie. At the age of 65 she put pen to paper and wrote about memories. Through hard work and the help of her daughter, Rose, she became a successful author. The wonderful books she left behind tell the story of a rich life in the face of good times and bad.

Author : Ree Drummond
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0061959820

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Paula Deen meets Erma Bombeck in The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Ree Drummond’s spirited, homespun cookbook. Drummond colorfully traces her transition from city life to ranch wife through recipes, photos, and pithy commentary based on her popular, award-winning blog, Confessions of a Pioneer Woman, and whips up delicious, satisfying meals for cowboys and cowgirls alike made from simple, widely available ingredients. The Pioneer Woman Cooks—and with these “Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl,” she pleases the palate and tickles the funny bone at the same time.

Author : Pamela Smith Hill
Publisher : South Dakota State Historical Society
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 097779556X

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"[E]xamines Wilder's tumultuous, but ultimately successful, professional and personal relationship with her daughter-the hidden editor-Rose Wilder Lane.

Author : Kaye Dacus
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0736933980

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The Ransome Trilogy from exciting new author Kaye Dacus combines the wit, romance, and social commentary of Jane Austen with the sea-faring adventure of Horatio Hornblower. July 1814. The war with France has ended, and Captain William Ransome, known for never letting women aboard his ship, has returned to Portsmouth, England. Julia Witherington, considered an old-maid at 29, discovers that she must marry immediately to receive a large dowry. Julia knows that the only man she doesn’t want to marry is William Ransome. And the only man her father will approve of is...William Ransome. When the couple strikes a financial deal to feign marriage for one year, the adventure begins. These stubborn people face humorous and hard situations that reveal what else they have in common—a growing affection for one another. This intriguing tale of faith and loyalty is a wonderful new offering for readers of all genres.

Author : Joanna L. Stratton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476753598

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From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “uncommonly interesting” and “a remarkable distillation of primary sources.” Never before has there been such a detailed record of women’s courage, such a living portrait of the women who civilized the American frontier. Here are their stories: wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders, and circuit riders. Their personal recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, cowboy shootouts, Indian raids, and blizzards on the plains vividly reveal the drama, danger and excitement of the pioneer experience. These were women of relentless determination, whose tenacity helped them to conquer loneliness and privation. Their work was the work of survival, it demanded as much from them as from their men—and at last that partnership has been recognized. “These voices are haunting” (The New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before.