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Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Det. Maggie Kennedy-O'Keefe of the Grotto, Iowa, PD is assigned to a cold case, the murder of her 16-year-old best friend, Eve Knox, after two kids find a new piece of evidence, Eve's boot, in the cave where Maggie found Eve's body 25 years earlier."--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Daughters of Amana volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
As anti-German sentiment during WWI threatens to tear apart the peaceful life of the Amana Colonies, the families must rally to protect their own.
Author
Language
English
Description
Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a bookstore in honor of her friend's memory.
4) Some luck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s.
5) Home
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames's closest friend.
Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack—the
Author
Language
English
Description
Veteran social worker Ellen Moore is a fiercely dedicated children's advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But one blistering summer day, a simple moment of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined, threatening to shatter everything she holds dear, and trapping her between the gears of the system she works for. Meanwhile, ten-year-old Jenny Briard suddenly finds herself on her own, forced to survive with nothing but...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for fulfillment of a girlhood dream. It shows readers what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.
Author
Series
Sam McCain volume 9
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Caught in the middle of a dispute over a hippie commune that has moved into Black River Falls, lawyer and private investigator Sam McCain doubts claims that a troubled commune member is responsible for a local murder.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jack is practically invisible at home, but when his parents send him to Hazelwood, Iowa, to spend a summer with his odd aunt and uncle, he suddenly makes friends, is beaten up by the town bully, and is plotted against by the richest man in town.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being involved in a drunk driving accident in the spring, Paige Sheridan spends the summer in Paris as an au-pair and then returns to her suburban Iowa existence for her senior year of high school, where she begins to wonder if she wants more out life than being popular, having a handsome boyfriend and all the latest clothes, and being a member of the social elite.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment gone terribly wrong"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
15) Missing pieces
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Haunted by the unsolved murder of his mother in his teens, Sarah Quinlan's husband, Jack, is forced to confront the past in the wake of a devastating accident and disturbing family questions.
16) Ticket to ride
Author
Series
Sam McCain volume 8
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
17) The big thaw
Author
Publisher
Beeler Large Print
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman and his investigative partner, Hester Gorse, unearth a plot to rob the Colonel Beauregard riverboat casino.
18) Jack
Author
Series
Gilead volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa--the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack--and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his...
19) Lila
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.
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