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Stories Set in North Dakota
Teddy Roosevelt's badlands, endless wheat and oil-boom towns — North Dakota tells spare northern stories. Its tales weather blizzards and booms alike.
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Browse 23 books, 18 movies and 2 games set in North Dakota.

Jesus Camp
Jesus Camp follows children at a Christian summer camp as they hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled in how to "take back America for Christ." The film is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that…

Monster Trucks
Tripp is a high school senior with a knack for building trucks who makes an incredible discovery - a gas-guzzling creature named Creech. To protect his mischievous new friend Tripp hides Creech under the hood of his…

Love, Lucy
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe one and only autobiography by the iconic Lucille Ball, hailed by TV Guide as the "#1 Greatest TV Star of All Time."Love, Lucy is the valentine Lucille Ball left for her fans--a warm,…

The Messengers
When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother…

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Frustrated with her mundane life a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota she travels to America…

The Parts You Lose
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy Wesley and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.

The Overnighters
Desperate broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.

Welcome to Leith
In September 2012 the tiny prairie town of Leith North Dakota sees its population of 24 grow by one. As the new resident's behavior becomes more threatening tensions soar and the residents desperately look for ways to…

The Round House
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereOne of the most revered novelists of our time - a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life - Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling,…

Peace Like a River
Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. Leif Enger's debut, Peace Like a River, is one such work. His richly evocative novel, narrated by an asthmatic…
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