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The fledgling town of De Smet in the Dakota Territory is hit hard by the brutal winter of 1880-1881. Laura, Pa, Ma, Mary, Carrie, and little Grace face the winter as best they can, but soon, blizzards have covered the town in snow that piles up to the rooftops, cutting the town off from supplies and trade. Food stores begin to run dangerously low. To save the town from starvation, young Almanzo Wilder and a friend brave the conditions, set off across...
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Story of a crime trilogy volume 1
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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The first entry in a trilogy inspired by the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme traces an investigation into an unknown American's death in Stockholm that reveals a complex web of espionage and intelligence failures.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2020]
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English
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"A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions around the world colluded to drive governments towards a war few of them wanted and none of them could control. All Against All is the story of the season our world changed from postwar to prewar again. It is a book about the power of bad ideas -- exploring why, during a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much...
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Long before Charles Dickens and Henry James popularized the tradition of supernatural horror, the shadowy nights of winter have been a time for people to gather together by the flicker of candlelight and experience the intoxicating thrill of a spooky tale. Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors--all of them master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre--bring the tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding new collection of original spine-tingling...
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Long winter novels (A. G. Riddle) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Can humanity survive on a new world? The last survivors of the human race escaped a ruined Earth. Their new homeworld--Eos--seemed perfect at first. Warm. Hospitable. Safe from the grid. But everything isn't as it seems. The first colony of settlers--from the Carthage--have disappeared. Their settlement is still there, but everyone is gone. As James digs into the mystery of the lost colony, he discovers a series of spheres, buried on Eos. Are they...
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October Daye novels volume 8
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DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Toby thought she understood her own past; she thought she knew the score. She was wrong. It's time to learn the truth.
9) Winter world
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[2019]
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English
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A new ice age on Earth. A mysterious object in space. And a desperate mission to save humanity from extinction. Each month, Earth grows colder. Snow falls in summer. Glaciers trample cities across North America, Europe, and Asia. Chaos erupts. Around the world, people abandon their homes, fleeing the cold, flocking to regions where they can survive the new ice age. Nations prepare to go to war for the world's last habitable zones.
10) The solar war
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[2019]
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English
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The continuing story of humanity's fight for survival, as Dr. James Sinclair and the other survivors learn that the end of the Long Winter does not mean the end of the threat. leading Dr. Sinclair to come up with a plan that risks everything for survival.
11) Pioneer sisters
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Little house chapter books. Laura volume 2
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English
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Laura Ingalls and her sisters share many adventures while growing up on the American frontier.
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Little house chapter books. Laura volume 13
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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When Laura and her family move from Wisconsin to Kansas, they make friends with a helpful neighbor who comes to their aid later when they settle in the Dakota Territory.
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Library of America volume 230
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Library of America volume 229-230
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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