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Chancy and the grand rascal
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Sid Fleischman |
Skinny Chancy and his newly found friend, the great rascal, enjoy humorous escapades as they travel by their wits up and across the Midwest in search of Chancy's family. |
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Pygmy
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Chuck Palahniuk |
The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park--Chuck Palahniuk's finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club."Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern Am… |
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Joy in the Morning
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Betty Smith |
A timeless classic! From Betty Smith - author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, one of the most beloved novels of the past century - comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of you… |
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Rotters
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Daniel Kraus |
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah, alt… |
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Pioneer Sisters
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Laura Ingalls Wilder,Melissa Peterson |
Laura Ingalls and her sisters share many adventures while growing up on the American frontier. |
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Marvel and a wonder
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Joe Meno |
"In the summer of 1995, a Korean War vet struggling to raise his sixteen-year-old grandson on a farm in southern Indiana receives a mysterious gift--a beautiful quarter horse--that upends the balance… |
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White Noise
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Don DeLillo |
The trials and tribulations of a profesor of Hitler studies. |
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Here we lie
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Paula Treick DeBoard |
Although they have different backgrounds, Midwesterner Megan Mazeros and Lauren Mabrey, the daughter of a Senator, are close college friends, but their relationship becomes complicated when Megan is … |
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Bedeviled eggs
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Laura Childs |
"The ladies at the Cackleberry Club cafe are busy preparing for Halloween. But someone's jumped the gun on the tricks. As mayoral candidate Chuck Peebler leaves, he gets struck with a crossbow arrow … |
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Mothers, tell your daughters
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Bonnie Jo Campbell |
Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulner… |
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The northwoods chronicles
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Elizabeth Engstrom |
Residents of isolated White Pines Junction in Vargas County live a prosperous contented life. The town seems normal to the tourists who flock there for fishing in the lakes in the summer. However, th… |
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Johnny Appleseed
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M. J. York |
Tells the classic tale of Johnny Appleseed, the adventuresome pioneer who traveled across America sharing and planting apple seeds. |
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A Dream To Follow
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Lauraine Snelling |
***It is 1893 and the first generation of immigrants who came to America for the promise of free land and a good life for their children have finally achieved their dreams.*** They labored hard on th… |
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Checkered flag cheater
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Will Weaver |
Trace Bonham, a teenaged professional stock car racer, blows away the competition wherever he races, but with every victory Trace is increasingly aware that his winning is due to more than just his d… |
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You remind me of me
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Dan Chaon |
With his critically acclaimed Among the Missing and Fitting Ends, award-winning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short story form. He is a writer, observes the Chicago Tribune, who can… |
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Caleb's Story
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Patricia MacLachlan |
Sequel to: Skylark.
The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah forces Jacob to deal with his past. |
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Do black patent-leather shoes really reflect up?
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John R. Powers |
I am dating myself when I say that I first heard this book being read by Michigan State University's Radio Reader in the 1970s. I was a kid and thought it was the most hilarious thing I had ever hear… |
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Justice for none
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Gene Hackman |
In their second novel, Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan bring to life the harsh plains and smouldering courtrooms of the Midwest: the small town of Vermilion, Illinois, on the brink of the Great Depre… |
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The many deaths of the Firefly Brothers
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Thomas Mullen |
Late one night in August 1934, following a yearlong spree of bank robberies across the Midwest, the Firefly Brothers are forced into a police shootout and die . . . for the first time. In award-winni… |
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Dark Harvest
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Norman Partridge |
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by *Publishers Weekly*, *Dark Harvest* by Norman Patridge is a powerhouse thrill-ride with all the resonance of Shirley Ja… |
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