 | Winter Morning Walks : 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison (Poetry Series) by Ted Kooser
Buy new: $11.07 / Used from: $8.00 Cancer as a metaphor for life - thank goodness the author survived to be U.S. poet laureate and the first Nebraskan to win the Pulitzer Prize since Cather.
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 | Distinctly American: The Photography of Wright Morris by Alan Trachtenberg
Buy new: $47.45 / Used from: $6.34 These photos from the 1940s are of places that could have been originally discovered by Sandoz or Cather.
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 | Lucy Gayheart (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $3.45 One of Cather's neglected gems - a wonderful winter book
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 | The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community by Mary Pipher
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.33 Mary Pipher has written many valuable books, but this tells the story of America as "melting pot," with a Lincoln focus
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 | Old Jules: 50th Anniversary Edition (Bison Book) by Mari Sandoz
Buy used from: $0.01 A look back in time at another immigrant story - not easy to read, but worth it.
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 | The Troll Garden: Short Stories by Willa Cather
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $1.96 After reading OLD JULES, see "The Sculptor's Funeral" and "A Wagner Matinee" for Cather's depictions of "all day long Nebraska."
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 | Potato Soup by Twyla Hansen
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $22.53 With a poet who is also a horticulturalist, you can always count on loveliness in the the landscape
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 | Restoring the Burnt Child: A Primer by William Kloefkorn
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $2.78 Although much of this happens in Kansas, the boy involved would grow up to be Poet Laureate of Nebraska.
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 | The River and I (Landmark Edition) by John G. Neihardt
Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $2.50 First came Twain on the Mississippi, then Neihardt on the Missouri, before it was tamed. A breathtaking account from a Nebraska icon.
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 | Bones Of A Very Fine Hand by Marjorie Saiser
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $0.04 Nebraska has many great poets - here's one of Lincoln's best (this first volume in particular).
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 | A Life With Dogs by Roger Welsch
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $0.03 What makes this a Nebraska book? It was written by Roger Welsch.
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 | Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams Are All Real by Carol Miles Petersen
Buy new: $40.46 / Used from: $20.95 If you were to rank Nebrask's top three women authors of the age, Aldrich would be #3 (with Cather at #1 and Sandoz at #2) - this book accompanies her fiction well.
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 | Your Name Is Hughes Hannibal Shanks: A Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's (Bison Book) by Lela Knox Shanks
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $4.95 Two profiles in courage: a ground-breaking black man who charted new territories in education for all, and his wife who refused to send him away.
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 | Divine Honors (Wesleyan Poetry) by Hilda Raz
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $0.73 Another Lincoln treasure: survivor of breast cancer, mother of a transgendered son (see TRANS), and editor of Prairie Schooner.
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 | Nebraska Folklore by Louise Pound
Buy used from: $1.49 A treasure of lore, from one who became part of it, thus the dorm in her honor (right next to Cather Hall) on UNL campus.
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 | Memories of William Jennings Bryan by William Jennings Bryan
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $31.31 Interesting perspectives from "the boy orator of the Platte," who ran against McKinley for President and lost (thereby surviving for a long and happy retirement in Florida).
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