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  The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

  by Ann Weisgarber

  It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands, and summer has been hard. Fourteen years have passed since Rachel and Isaac DuPree left Chicago to stake a claim in this unforgiving land. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn't rained in months, the cattle bellow with thirst, and supplies are dwindling. Pregnant, and struggling... (more)
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  Badlands (deLaney): Book 1

  Badlands

  by Seleste deLaney

  After a brutal Civil War, America is a land divided. As commander of her nation's border guards, Ever is a warrior sworn to protect her country and her queen. When an airship attacks and kills the monarch, Ever must infiltrate enemy territory to bring home the heir to the throne, and the dirigible Dark Hawk is her fastest way to the Union. Captain Spencer Pierce just wants to pay off the debt he owes on the Dark... (more)
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  Wheat: White Castles on the Plains

  by Dorothea Paulk

  Wheat’s major characters are Teal Swain, Gavin Rush, Heath Merriot and Eric Merriot. Upton Rush arrives from Ohio in Indian Territory in 1989. Marries Lettie Pearl, fathers Mary-Mary and Harlin, who moves west to Central Oklahoma after the great war to raise wheat and cattle. His son Gavin and Teal Swain, a miller’s daughter Mary and Teal ultimately develops an elevator and milling empire against dramatic and... (more)
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  Badlands (deLaney): Book 2

  Clockwork Mafia

  by Seleste deLaney

  Henrietta Mason is trying to leave the past that haunts her behind by destroying everything of her father’s that would provide a link back to the Badlands. Within the crates of equipment and papers though lies the research her father used to help Don Lupo turn his mafiosos into super-soldiers. It’s an advantage they are unwilling to give up. Federal Marshal Carson Alexander has already lost Senator Mason, and... (more)
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  Peace Like a River

  by Leif Enger

  Leif Enger's rhapsodic novel about a father raising his three children in 1960s Minnesota is a breathtaking celebration of family, faith, and America's pioneering spirit. Through the voice of eleven-year-old Reuben, an asthmatic boy, Peace Like a River tells of the Land family's cross-country search for Reuben's outlaw older brother, who has been controversially charged with murder. Sprinkled with playful and... (more)
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  Badlands of the High Plains

  by Chuck Haney

  An appreciation, in color photography, of the subtle and dramatic beauties of the badlands of the northern plains. Included are: The Monuments, Toadstool Geological Park, Oglala National Grasslands, and Fort Robinson State Park, Nebraska; Badlands National Park, South Dakota; Little Missouri National Grasslands and Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota; Hells Half Acre and Vedauwoo Rocks, Wyoming;... (more)
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  Then Came Christmas

  by Randy Lee Eickhoff

  On Thanksgiving Day, 1954, Samantha 'Sam' McCaslin was content with life on her family's ranch in South Dakota. It was her birthday, and to Sam and the family and friends that surrounded her, life was just beginning. She had just turned twelve and was certain that the year ahead of her would be a special one, as had all the years previous. But that world quickly shattered. Sam stumbles across the body of an Indian... (more)
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  Feral World: Book 1

  Migration of the Kamishi

  by Gaddy Bergmann

  Migration of the Kamishi is the first book in The Feral World series. It tells the odyssey of Blake and Manosh, two young men of the Fifty-First Century, as they journey across a new and unrecognizable expanse of the Great Plains. In the Fifty-First Century, the planet has recovered from a three-thousand-year-old wound - an asteroid strike. In the middle of the Twenty-First Century, the asteroid Apophis struck... (more)
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  Pictures from a Trip

  by Tim Rumsey

  Back when the price of gas, the cruising speed, and the year were all the same--seventy-five--three guys climbed into a Ford Bronco and headed West. Two brothers in love with the world, joined by their blind friend Ben--honorary driver and navigator--took off down I-90 across the flatlands and into the badlands of Montana to dig up dinosaur bones. They followed in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, Sitting Bull,... (more)
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  Ghostly Tales of the Black Hills and Badlands (Ohio)

  by Ruth Hein

  Ghost stories from North and South Dakota.
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  Badlands: Book 1

  Mail Order Bride for Two

  by Elle Saint James

  <Siren Menage Amour: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M> Running from an employment disaster, Clarissa Barnes escapes to the badlands of South Dakota with the promise of home and hearth with a stranger. When her mail order bride contract falls through upon her arrival, two gorgeous cowboys step up to save her with a seductive offer she can't refuse. Logan Granger and Derek Brand engaged a... (more)