Best Small Towns In Nebraska - April 2024

The Stranger's Obituary (An Obituary Society Novel)

Welcome to Auburn, where fresh baked cookies hold the key to your future, and a melody carries the secrets of your past.Mina Fairchild keeps to herself, and that’s the way she likes it. Her secluded life protects the secrets she hides, as well as a certain peculiarity that even people in the colorful town of Auburn, Nebraska find strange. But when her movie-star sister Bernadette shows up on her sofa, Mina’s cozy bungalow is overrun with paparazzi. One dark eyed reporter seems to see straight into Mina’s soul and her world begins to crumble. It’s bad enough when he noses around her sec... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00YZ1Y1F0
• ASIN: B00YZ1Y1F0

Easy To Fold: Kansas, Nebraska (Easyfinder Maps)

The durable and convenient Kansas and Nebraska EasyToFold state map will take all the wear and tear your journey can dish out. The heavy-duty laminated design allows you to mark your route, make notes, then wipe the surface clean for further use. This is a must-have for navigation whether you're a state resident or just passing through. Easy to fold means no fumbling Heavy-duty lamination allows you to write on, wipe off Durable and tear resistant Folds to display individual map sections Full-color maps with enhanced cartography Clearly indicated highways, county boundaries, points of interest... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0528854178
• UPC: 070609854175
• ASIN: 0528854178
• ISBN: 0528854178
• Brand: Rand McNally
• Manufacturer: Rand McNally

Unbridled Faith: 100 Devotions from the Horse Farm

Explore the timeless wisdom of God's Word through this beautiful horse devotional.Horses nuzzle their way into our hearts and have a way of teaching us a lot about ourselves, about life, and even about God. Just ask horse enthusiast Cara Whitney, wife of comedian and actor Dan Whitney (aka Larry the Cable Guy).Through years spent working with these majestic animals—Cara Whitney has learned countless spiritual lessons that have brought her closer to God.In 100 heartfelt devotions with stunning photography, you'llLearn about being flexible in your faith from a gangly legged colt.Discover the s... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400303311
• ASIN: 1400303311
• ISBN: 1400303311
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

Justice in Plain Sight: How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America's Courtrooms

Justice in Plain Sight is the story of a hometown newspaper in Riverside, California, that set out to do its job: tell readers about shocking crimes in their own backyard. But when judges slammed the courtroom door on the public, including the press, it became impossible to tell the whole story. Pinning its hopes on business lawyer Jim Ward, whom Press-Enterprise editor Tim Hays had come to know and trust, the newspaper took two cases to the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1980s. Hays was convinced that the public—including the press—needed to have these rights and needed to bear witness to ju... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07C86VZ2C
• ASIN: B07C86VZ2C
• Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press

Kings of Broken Things

With characters depicted in precise detail and wide panorama—a kept-woman’s parlor, a contentious interracial baseball game on the Fourth of July, and the tragic true events of the Omaha Race Riot of 1919—Kings of Broken Things reveals the folly of human nature in an era of astonishing ambition.During the waning days of World War I, three lost souls find themselves adrift in Omaha, Nebraska, at a time of unprecedented nationalism, xenophobia, and political corruption. Adolescent European refugee Karel Miihlstein’s life is transformed after neighborhood boys discover his prodigious natu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1503941469
• ASIN: 1503941469
• ISBN: 1503941469
• Manufacturer: Little A

Thorns of Rosewood: Book 1 (Rosewood Series)

Gloria Larsen knows only three things about her birth mother: she was over forty, she lived in Rosewood, Nebraska, and she was accused of murder in 1974. When Gloria is offered a job as newspaper editor in the small town, she jumps at the opportunity to discover the identity of her birth mother. Digging into the past, she finds a story of the disappearance of a judge's wife and four friends accused of murder. Gloria tracks the now-elderly women to an assisted-living facility. This is Gloria’s chance to write the story of a lifetime and finally know her heritage. Even if she can't learn the t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00IQC3CX6
• ASIN: B00IQC3CX6
• Manufacturer: Less Traveled Roads Publishing

Bonfire: A Novel

“A phenomenal, haunting debut.”—Gillian Flynn   Nothing burns as bright as the truth.It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small-town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town’s most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange conn... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524759856
• ASIN: 1524759856
• ISBN: 1524759856
• Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

Country Farm Coloring Book: An Adult Coloring Book with Charming Country Life, Playful Animals, Beautiful Flowers, and Nature Scenes for Relaxation

2019 Gift IdeasRelax with peaceful meadows, farmyard animals, and rustic settings in this charming coloring book from bestselling publishing brand, Jade Summer.Our Country Farm Coloring Book takes you on a wonderful adventure into rural life. Packed with beautiful country scenes and serene landscapes, you’ll discover an array of entertaining illustrations to color. Each page features a delightful drawing, waiting to be washed with your favorite hues. Put your own interpretation on each picture and create a spectacular collection of masterpieces.Our Country Farm Coloring Book fuses tradit... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1718029462
• ASIN: 1718029462
• ISBN: 1718029462
• Manufacturer: Independently published

Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream

A resonant true story of small-town politics and community perseverance and of decent people and questionable choices, Zoo Nebraska is a timely requiem for a rural America in the throes of extinction.Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one—where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity to key tourist attraction to devastating tragedy. And it all began with one man’s outsize vision.When Dick Haskin’s plans to assist primatol... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1503901505
• ASIN: 1503901505
• ISBN: 1503901505
• Manufacturer: Little A

Good Hope Road (Tending Roses Series, Book 2)

In a time of crisis, two women come together and set off down a road of hope in this novel in the Tending Roses series from the New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours.   Twenty-year-old Jenilee Lane, whose dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide, doesn’t imagine any good could come out of the tornado that has ripped across the Missouri farmland where she makes her home. But some inner spark compels her to take action. To rescue her elderly neighbor Eudora Gibson from the cellar in which she’s been trapped. To make her way to the nearby town of Poetry, where the townspeo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451208617
• UPC: 051855015008
• ASIN: 0451208617
• ISBN: 0451208617
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Colorado Golden Sunrise (Peakview Series Book 8)

Forty-three year old, Kelly Charm, feels her life slipping away in Prairie, Nebraska. A single mom, she longs for a better life for herself and her teenage son, Ethan. Having scoured online job ads for months, she finally finds an ad for a hardware store manager in picturesque Peakview, Colorado and decides to take a chance.Forty-six year old, Jake Midnight, is Peakview County’s most beloved EMT. He’s the best at what he does—professionally, that is. After a failed marriage, which ended over twenty years ago, he’s put his personal life on hold. He’s content to live alone. That is if ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07828MFF1
• ASIN: B07828MFF1

Forget Me Not (Catalina Cove)

Brenda Jackson welcomes you back to Catalina Cove, where love is waiting to be reclaimed…Ashley Ryan never doubted that her husband, Devon, was the love of her life. Even now, three years after Devon died in a car wreck while on a business trip, Ashley can’t bring herself to move on. But when her girlfriends surprise her with a getaway to beautiful Catalina Cove, Louisiana, she gets the shock of her life when she encounters a man—bearded, more rugged than before, but unmistakably her Devon.“Ray Sullivan” moved to this quiet coastal town after waking up in a hospital with amnesia. Hau... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1335906126
• ASIN: 1335906126
• ISBN: 1335906126
• Manufacturer: HQN

Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher, Book 15)

• ASIN: B003EY7IWC
• ASIN: B003EY7IWC
• ISBN: 0440339340
• Manufacturer: Delacorte Press

Tangled Up (Taking Chances Book 2)

Storm chaser Max Grady can already feel it: there’s a tornado coming to his hometown of Chance, Nebraska. Max is going after it, and the only person he wants by his side is police officer Bree McDermott, fellow adrenaline junkie, his best friend, and the woman Max has secretly been in love with for years. But when a close call with a tornado leaves them lip-locked, Max knows that the danger is only beginning.Bree is always up for excitement. Her close and sexy encounter with Max is unlike anything she’s felt before, and she wants more. As they work together to help clean up Chance, the air... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01GOCENTG
• ASIN: B01GOCENTG
• Manufacturer: Montlake Romance

The Wayward Bus (Penguin Classics)

A Penguin ClassicIn his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future. This edition features an introduction by Gary Scharnhorst.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142437875
• ASIN: 0142437875
• ISBN: 0142437875
• Brand: Steinbeck, John/ Scharnhorst, Gary
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

A Visit to Hartington : A Short Story Collection about Life in a Small Nebraska Town

A Visit to Hartington

• UPC: 53673414

The Best Small Towns In the United States - eBook

Once in a while, you discover a town that has everything—great coffee, food with character, shop owners with purpose. Each year, the Budget Travel team celebrates these places with our "Coolest Small Towns in America"

• UPC: 467819528

A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-

A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States, Ward, Geoffrey

• UPC: 17476402
• Rating: 3.5

Making Your Move to One of America's Best Small Towns - eBook

For those looking to raise a family in a storybook American town, or a change of pace from hectic city life, this book is the

• UPC: 972366994

Justice in Plain Sight : How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America’s Courtrooms

Justice in Plain Sight is the story of a hometown newspaper in Riverside, California, that set out to do its job: tell readers about shocking crimes in their own backyard. But when judges slammed the

• UPC: 843335505

Falling for Her Best Friend: A Sweet, Small Town Romance

Falling for Her Best Friend: A Sweet, Small Town

• UPC: 806231153

Best Served Cold : A Small Town Police Procedural Set in Oklahoma

Twenty years ago, the Whitebridge Players staged their last ever performance and swore that they'd return to the same theatre and stage the same play. Two decades later, they do - with tragic results. DCI

• UPC: 856139155

The Gang : A Small Town Police Force Sarcastic, Irreverent, and Crude to Each Other, Yet Loyal to the Best Interests of Its Citizens.

After twenty-five years working in small-town law enforcement, author Martin J. Biersbach had enough stories to fill a book--so he wrote one. The Gang is a humorous, at times sarcastic, collection of short fictional tales

• UPC: 807875861

Emus Loose in Egnar : Big Stories from Small Towns

At a time when mainstream news media are hemorrhaging and doomsayers are predicting the death of journalism, take heart: the First Amendment is alive and well in small towns across America. In Emus Loose in

• UPC: 20708397

Best Served Cold : A Small Town Police Procedural Set in Oklahoma

Someone is getting revenge against Milt Kovak with a series of pranks. But things escalate when the brakes on Milt's deputy's car are cut and his wife to crashes. Then two friends of the mother

• UPC: 56120572