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India Press Store - Dakota Born (Dakota Series #1)
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Manufacturer: Mira
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780778325116
ISBN: 0778325113
Label: Mira
Manufacturer: Mira
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
Publisher: Mira
Studio: Mira
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Summary: Wait, what just happened?
Comment: In summary, when Lindsay moves out to Buffalo Valley, ND, as a school teacher, she encounters a stereotypical Midwestern small town on the skids, and the residents who are hesitant to accept her, including Gage, a local farmer who is afraid to become attached to the teacher who is only in town for a year. The novel follows these two and other couples in the town as they struggle and survive through a year that contains many hard times for all.
Over all, it's a fairly calming, relaxed book with no real passion between the main couple, though there's plenty of drama in some of the minor characters' relationships, including a couple with their marriage on the rocks, a widow and her new beau, and some emo teenager drama. The real problem isn't that the main couple is unlikeable; instead they are fairly limp and entirely lacking in any fire to their relationships. Months pass without them ever seeing each other while their own developing relationship is entirely overshadowed by the more interesting relationships developing around them. The decaying marriage, the before mentioned teen/parent problem, the hinted at but never developed tensions that develop when a new person intrudes into a small community are never fully developed but offer tantalizing hints at what could have been were the book not trying to stick to the bounds of the romance genre. The novel lacks focus in that regard because were they not listed on the back blurb as the main characters, it never would have been apparent that they are central figures in what is a fairly sprawling plot. The romance is not so much the relationship between Gage and Lindsay, as it is Debbie Macomber's love with the illusion of a small town. The real romance is the revival of the town, not the relationships between the people.
Speaking of her romance with the town itself, there are definitely aspects about Buffalo Valley that makes me wonder if the author has ever actually lived in the upper Midwest, or if she'd just flown over it a couple times. Just as an example, the emo teen has an iPod, and yet her family is poor, and also unlikely to own a computer. No mention of the droughts lately, or floods. Over all everything just feels really 'generic small town' that could be anywhere, not even the Upper Midwest specifically. This could have been set in Nebraska and no one would have noticed.
Also, there's no sex. What the heck?
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Comment: While I was reading this book (#1 in the series) I sent for #2 and #3. I'm just starting #3. They're all great stories to read to just be taken away to another world that you wouldn't mind being in.
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Summary: Great reading!
Comment: I recently read all three books in this Dakota series while my family was on vacation. I immediately was drawn into the lives of the characters and found that they seemed to "come alive". I am now sharing the books with my mom and my daughter. I think it is wonderful that these books are enjoyable reading for three generations, 30's, 50's, and even 80's.
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Summary: Dakota Born (Dakota Series #1)
Comment: It's a very good book. If you like Debbie Macomber books, you should like this one. I don't like to read much, but Debbie Macomber books I like very much. This book is about modern American farmer and its townspeople pulling together to make their hometown one they can be proud of.
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Summary: Dakota Born, author: Debbie Maacomber
Comment: Once I pick up a Debbie Macomber book, I just canot put it down and onced I am finished if it is in a series I have to immediately start on the next on. I have througly enjoyed each and every book I have read by Debbie Macomber
Edie~
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Buffalo Valley is the place of my heart. My parents came from towns a lot like this in the Dakotas, so Buffalo Valley has special meaning for me. I hope that in reading Dakota Born you'll share my love for the prairie and for its proud, hardworking people.
Debbie Macomber Buffalo Valley, North Dakota. Like so many small Midwest towns, it's dying. Stores are boarded up, sidewalks cracked, houses need a coat of paint. But despite all that,there's a spirit of hope here, of defiance. The people still living in Buffalo Valley are fighting for their town. Lyndsay Snyder is a newcomer. She's an outsider, even though she spent childhood vacations here. Now she returns to see the family house again, to explore family secrets and reevaluate her life. To her own astonishment, she decides to stay, to accept the vacant position of teacher. Her decision marks a new beginning for Buffalo Valley and for Lyndsay, who discovers in this broken little town the love and purpose she's been seeking.
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