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Author
Publisher
Hyperion Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A "funny and supremely moving" novel about a seven-year-old navigating a world of turmoil by the author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Harper's Bazaar).
Seven-year-old Scotty Ocean decides that seven is going to be "his year." But soon after his birthday, his artist-turned-alcoholic mother abandons the family-leaving Scotty and his two older sisters alone with their father. As his perfect year falls apart, Scotty begins to act out during school...
2) The gamble
Author
Series
Loss of certainty volume 2
Publisher
Synergy Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
When Arden Arrowood was four years old, her two-year-old twin sisters were stolen from the front yard of their hometown of Keokuk, Iowa, on the Mississippi River while Arden watched. Twenty years later, she returns home to confront the darkest part of her past. As the mystery unravels, the novel explores the reliability of memory, the stories we tell ourselves, and the power of love.
5) Shoeless Joe
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999, c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
"If you build it, he will come." When Ray Kinsella hears these mysterious words spoken in the voice of an Iowa baseball announcer, he is inspired to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield. It is a tribute to his hero, the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson, whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series.
Author
Series
Sam McCain mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the March on Washington, racial tensions flare in McCain's small town In the summer of 1963, freedom riders are crisscrossing the South, Martin Luther King is preparing for a march on Washington, and the people of Black River Falls, Iowa, are about to go to the polls. Senator Williams is cruising to reelection when a blackmailer starts sending him photos of his daughter arm in arm with a handsome black student. To save his campaign,...
Author
Series
Sam McCain mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In the thick of the Cold War, McCain investigates death threats against an alleged red The citizens of Black River Falls are polite, understanding, and respectful-except when it comes to communism. Joe McCarthy has been dead for two years, but men like Richard Conners are still fighting to clear themselves of his accusations. A liberal who served faithfully under Roosevelt and Truman, only to be slandered as a red during McCarthy's witch hunts, Conners...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Annie and her brothers have been surrounded by wealth and prestige their entire lives. But, as their mother says, "They don't know how to dream." When she dies, their father seizes upon an opportunity to uproot the family and move them to a place that is unlike anything they ever imagined. This family saga is a riches to rags story written against the backdrop of the political and global turmoil of the last three years of the Vietnam War, 1970 - 1973....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Everyone has a secret they'll do anything to hide... Twenty-five years ago, the body of sixteen-year-old Eve Knox was found in the caves near her home in small-town Grotto, Iowa -- discovered by her best friend, Maggie, and her sister, Nola. There were a handful of suspects, including her boyfriend, Nick, but without sufficient evidence the case ultimately went cold. For decades Maggie was haunted by Eve's death and that horrible night. Now a detective...
Author
Publisher
River Lights Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The lure of family and the efforts of a university striving toward greater diversity bring Emma Jean Whitcomb to Iowa City. Neither factor dulls the sharp edge of anger Emma Jean feels about racism in America. Can that happen in the arms of a new love?"--
Author
Series
Lake Manawa summers volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
It is the beginning of a new century at Lake Manawa Resort in Iowa, but some things never change. When 22-year-old Emily Graham's meddlesome aunts and grandmother take it upon themselves to find her a husband among the resort guests, the spunky suffragist is determined to politely decline each and every suitor. She has neither the time nor the need for a man in her busy life. Carter Stockton, a recent college graduate and pitcher for the Manawa Owls...
Author
Series
Gangster volume 2
Publisher
Betty Brandt Passick, BBPCOM, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Wiltse leaves behind his beloved Canada in the mid-1850s with wife Phebe and three young children to establish new roots in America. Only Phebe knows of his attraction to murder... His well-oiled black canvas bag simply allows him into emplacements where others may not go. Still, his fellow French Canadians called him 'Guerisseur,' (Healer). Perhaps, the pioneer physician is also running from entanglements of the past."--
Author
Series
Gangster volume 1
Publisher
Betty Brandt Passick, BBPCOM, INC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marshal Sweeney Delaney was just a rookie in his small Iowa town when Congress ratified the 18th Amendment. Prohibition threw the whole nation into a tailspin. Even teetotaling Christians jumped on the bandwagon and began making panther piss in a still behind the barn. Then—a Chicago gangster came to town. His name: Louie La Cava. Sweeney followed the adage: Keep your friends close; your enemies closer. Two old friends are part of his inner circle:...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When two seven-year-old girls go missing, all are under suspicion. Calli Clark is a dreamer. A sweet, gentle girl, Callie suffers from selective mutism, brought on by a tragedy she experienced as a toddler. Her mother Antonia tries her best to help, but is confined by marriage to a violent husband. Petra Gregory is Calli's best friend, her soul mate and her voice. But neither Petra nor Calli have been heard from since their disappearance was discovered....
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