Velma Brendle, "the town's chief cook and part-time janitor for Jerusalem Baptist Church ... finds herself dealing with nearly all of the town's problems." Includes several recipes.
A hardy young carpenter in 1799, Adam Bede is smitten by the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, who loves careless Captain Donnithorne. Soon though, their foolish hearts will trap them in a tragic triangle of seduction, murder, and retribution.
This epic tale of sacrifice and redemption is the dramatic account of the rise and fall of the Lakota Indians and an absorbing allegorical saga of the Lakota orphan, Waskn-Mani, "Moves Walking."
A bag with ten copies of the title that may also include miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.
Peder Victorious, the sequel to Rölvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rölvaag's "vikings of the prairie"—Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert Tönseten and Kjersti, and Sörine. The great struggle against the land itself has been won. Now there is to be a second struggle, a struggle to adapt, to become Americans. The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. It is the story, too, of Beret's pain and dismay at the Americanization of her children, what Rölvaag described as the true tragedy of the immigrants, who made their children part of a world to which they themselves could never belong. Out of the inevitable conflict between the first-generation American and his still Norwegian mother, Rölvaag built a powerful novel of personal growth, guilt, and victory.
