Green Earth


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Frederick Manfred


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The author recounts the life and death of her father, the prolific and highly regarded author Frederick Manfred. Using family letters and passages from her father's novels as well as her own memories, she explores their personal and literary relationship, which spanned nearly five decades.




Boy Almighty


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Boy Almighty is an autobiographical novel that recounts the terrifying two years from 1940 to 1942 that Frederick Manfred spent at the Glen Lake Sanatorium in Minnesota, trying to recover from tuberculosis.




Frederick Manfred


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The author recounts the life and death of her father, the prolific and highly regarded author Frederick Manfred. Using family letters and passages from her father's novels as well as her own memories, she explores their personal and literary relationship, which spanned nearly five decades.




Of Lizards and Angels


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Siouxland, the prairie land where Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas meet, is the setting of Manfred's latest novel (as it is of his more than 20 previous novels)--the tale of three generations of the Freyling family, spanning the period from the 1880s to the 1960s, and reflecting characteristic Manfred themes of the spirit of the land and deep-rooted family bonds. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




The Chokecherry Tree


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During the Great Depression, many young men looking for success found themselves lucky just to survive. The Chokecherry Tree, a realistic novel of the Depression set in southern Minnesota, recounts one man's attempt to escape small-town life and find success in the world outside.




Frederick, Conrad and Manfred of Hohenstaufen, Kings of Sicily


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This is the first English translation of a chronicle written in Latin during the thirteenth century at the traveling court of Manfred von Hohenstaufen, King of Sicily, son and heir of the great Frederick II, who ruled lands and peoples from Saxony to Sicily




Conquering Horse


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High on a remote butte, a young Sioux waits. Though daring in battle, skillful, and strong, he cannot be a man until his spiritual vision comes. When it appears, he must interpret it correctly to know who he is, and he must deserve it, or continue to be called No Name. No Name has his vision, a glowing white mare who walks among the stars. She tells No Name his destiny and how to achieve it. He must pass through hostile camps, storm, and fire, risk his life many times to become Conquering Horse, chief of the Sioux. Conquering Horse is the first of Frederick Manfred's five volume series, the Buckskin Man Tales.




SCARLET PLUME


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Riders of Judgment


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"A fictionalization of Wyoming's Johnson County War, the legendary range war that pitted the small ranchers against the large and ended in the spring of 1892 with a dramatic shootout"--




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