Conrad Richter
2) The trees
Author
Series
Awakening land volume 01
Language
English
Description
The Luckett family, pioneers from Pennsylvania, face the hardships and unknown perils of America's forest wilderness during their journey westward.
3) The fields
Author
Series
Awakening land trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Educated New Englander Portious Wheeler and his wife, Sayward Luckett Wheeler, face the challenges of settling in the Ohio wilderness and creating a home for their eight children.
4) The town
Author
Series
Awakening land trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Sayward Wheeler and her husband moves from a cabin into a mansion and their children moving into their own homes.
Author
Series
Awakening land volume 03
Language
English
Description
Trees: Sayward, the oldest daughter in the Luckett family, becomes determined that the family will survive in the wilderness of Ohio.
Fields: Educated New Englander Portious Wheeler and his wife, Sayward Luckett Wheeler, face the challenges of settling in the Ohio wilderness and creating a home for their eight children.
Town: Sayward Wheeler and her husband move from a cabin into a mansion and their children moving into their own homes.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of a white girl captive of the Indians returned against her will to her white home. Her reception here, her and her son's rejection by her Caucasian father and her sister, and the conflicts of her Indian upbringing with the white way of life are related.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
The story of a storekeeper turned minister. A fictional record of a life spent in the service of others, a life bringing the power of simple goodness to obscure, sometimes earthy and violent people. Harry Donner stands in this novel as a man of integrity engaged in the day-by-day activities of son, husband, father, friend, and counselor in an age when home and family exerted moral conviction and social authority.--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
Secure in her Victorian mansion, in her Pennsylvania town, flying her flag in defense of principle and old-time decorum, Miss Alexandria Morley takes on and outclasses the mighty coal company (she's caught them cheating on taxes); civilizes her roughhewn young doctor (good character is no license for crudity); copes patiently (family obligations are sacred) with the poor old cousin who is a tidal wave of garrulous idiocy; stands firm against the poisonous...
11) The lady
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
Rivalry between sheepmen and cattlemen in early nineteenth-century New Mexico. Ellen the enigmatic lady of the title is the person around whom the story turns.
12) The grandfathers
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
The story of a big family of western Maryland hill folk and a young girl, direct and wise, who is concerned about the identity of her father.