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More than memory
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Dorothy Garlock |
When Nelda Hanson returns to her Iowa farmland home, she meets again her teenage love, Lute, who was, for a few brief months, her husband. There is still misunderstanding and anger despite the old fe… |
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A Bond Never Broken (Book 3 Daughters of Amana)
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Judith Miller |
For many years, Ilsa Redlich has helped her parents run a hotel in South Amana, but as the United States enters the Great War, she can feel her world changing. The residents of the towns surrounding … |
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The mostly true story of Jack
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Kelly Regan Barnhill |
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 … |
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Pig City
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Jonathan Mary-Todd |
When snow drives Malik, Beckley, Emma, and Wendell into Des Moines, Iowa, they are taken in by a Coalition that is caught between an anti-electricity, cult-like group and brutes who raise pigs to tra… |
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Fight the wind
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Elias Carr |
Seventeen-year-olds Fix, a natural mechanic, and Cleo, a gifted tactician, must find a way to cooperate in a near-future Iowa or they and the group they lead may die at the hands of armed bands rumor… |
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Riders on the storm
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Edward Gorman |
With his military career ended in boot camp by an accidental shot to the head, Sam McCain returns to Black River Falls to work for the court of Judge Esme Ann Whitney. But two of Sam's oldest friends… |
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If you're reading this
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Trent Reedy |
For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, a… |
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Little mercies
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Heather Gudenkauf |
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… |
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Our lady of the prairie
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Thisbe Nissen,Thisbe Nissen |
"A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises--and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself...In the spa… |
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The surprising place
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Malinda McCollum |
"A woman walks a raccoon on a leash, a synchronized swimming coach pops pills during practice, a bagpiper holds a young girl hostage, and an orphan puts her fist through a window, discovering in the … |
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Some luck
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Jane Smiley |
"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"--Provided by publisher. |
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Some luck
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Jane Smiley |
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn … |
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The Curse of the Buttons
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Anne Ylvisaker |
When a steamboat arrives heralding the news that Iowa has been called up to represent the Union of the United States of America, Ike is beside himself with excitement. For months, the promise of war … |
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Ubik
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Anthony Heald,Philip K. Dick,Adrià Fruitós,Martí Sales |
Ubik, written in 1966 and published in 1969, is one of Philip K. Dick's masterpieces (The Three Stigmata of Plamer Eldritch is another one). Ubik is the first novel to introduce spiritual elements th… |
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Some luck
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Jane Smiley |
Overview: 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary nov… |
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Save the last dance for me
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Edward Gorman |
It all begins when a preacher drops dead at his own altar. |
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The Girls in 3-B
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Valerie Taylor |
An honest, explosive novel that turns conventional ideas of 1950s feminity upside down, The Girls in 3-B reveals in page-turning detail the hidden world of mid-century America, showcasing predatory B… |
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Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice
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Jim Heynen |
When sent to live on a farm in Iowa as an alternative to juvenile detention, seventeen-year-old Cosmos falls in love with a religious girl and reconsiders his values and beliefs. |
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The Puppet Masters
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Robert A. Heinlein |
The Puppet Masters are slug-like aliens from a flying saucer who control people’s minds (1951 short novel, set in 2007 with space ships, ray guns, etc.). |
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Any Which Wall
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Laurel Snyder |
Four kids, a mysterious wall, and a good helping of common magic!If you had a magic wall that could take you to any place and any time, where would you go? Would you want to visit castles and desert … |
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