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It's OK to be me!2021
Summary: Young animals think about how they want to be different. The monkey wants to be a turtle. The squirrel wants to be a giraffe. The bird wants to be a lion. But when their mothers remind them how... more »BOOK
Call #: J P GROWING KUBALSKY
Location: New Junior Picture Books - Growing Up
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A happy dragon tale2018
Summary: Here is a delightful Medieval adventure, a story lovingly told within a story. Grandpa entrances seven-year-old Mac with tales about the brave squires and knights who populated their family history,... more »- place hold (0)
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Winterset : short stories of pixies, demons, and fiends2019
Summary: "Winterset, Iowa. A peaceful, rural Midwest town ... with a secret: it harbors a gateway to another world, a world filled with supernatural creatures of legend. Irish-born Father Donahey has been... more »- place hold (0)
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The long ride home2017
Summary: Hoping to find a family, Bert Davidson, accompanied by his younger sister Emma, boards an orphan train for Iowa in 1929 and learns some eternal truths as he attends a one-room school and works on a farm.- place hold (0)
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The Sophocles rule2023
Summary: The simple toss of a coin presents journalist Tony Harrington with a fascinating puzzle. And puzzles, he knows, can lead to good stories. As he searches for the origins of a particularly unusual... more »- place hold (0)
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Two sisters' secret2020
Summary: From author Diane Holmes, comes a story inspired by the life of her grandmother, Bernadine. In this work of historical fiction, the relationship between Bernadine and her older sister Elizabeth is... more »- place hold (0)
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Undetermined death2021
Summary: Public defender Ashley Montgomery's latest case will push her to the limit. When teenager Rachel Smithson is charged with murdering her newborn baby in a hotel room, Ashley is appointed to represent... more »- place hold (0)
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Unsympathetic victims2021
Summary: When successful public defender Ashley Montgomery helps acquit yet another client, people in small-town Brine, Iowa are enraged. Following the verdict, a protest breaks out -- and the hated defense... more »- place hold (0)
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When sparks fly2020
Summary: A mysterious old wooden chest containing several family mementos inspires Grandpa and Mackenzie to explore the amazing story these relics exemplify about their ancestor, also named Mackenzie. Squire... more »- place hold (0)
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Skinny legs and fat cheeks2021
Summary: Zuri, the giraffe, has a very long neck and skinny legs which Kubwa, the hippopotamus, considers to be funny looking when compared to his huge and stubby fat body. Zuri and Kubwa live in the... more »BOOK
Call #: J P ANIMALS CASSIS
Location: New Junior Picture Books - Animals
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Love letters from the angels2020
Summary: A collection of angelic letters and messages intuitively received by the author, Laurie Hazel. These letters are based on themes that are universal to people everywhere. Each theme contains an... more »- place hold (0)
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Iowa trouble2022
Summary: A memoir of political violence across Iowa mixed with a variety of horror stories from punk sub-culture to Iowa gangsters to the politics of the Iowa Caucus.- place hold (0)
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The thing in the snow : a novel2023
Summary: In the far reaches of the world, the Northern Institute sits in a vast expanse of ice and snow. Shut down after an unspecified incident, the research facility was evacuated and is now home to three... more »- place hold (0)
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Remembering the Home Place : sonnets and stories from our family farm2022
Summary: This book is not only an invitation for you to get a glimpse into life on our family farm, it is a reminder for you to see how God is working during each and every moment in your life. Ultimately, it... more »- place hold (0)
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When a dream dies : agriculture, Iowa, and the farm crisis of the 1980s2022
Summary: Iowa in the 1980s -- the state was at the epicenter of a nationwide agricultural collapse unmatched since the Great Depression. While farms failed and banks foreclosed, rural and small town Iowans... more »- place hold (0)
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The Raccoon River anthology : re-inventing the limerick : a porthole in the wall of reality2015
Summary: A lifelong writer, Gordon K. Blenderman possesses an imagination that goes wild with words. In this collection of limericks, he artfully showcases that passion for wordplay and wit through carefully... more »- place hold (0)
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Magpies in the valley of oleanders2016
Summary: In these wide-ranging and beautiful poems, Kyle McCord considers the intersections of art, politics, and lived experience. His poems are distinguished by an imagination that is at once startling and deeply humane.- place hold (0)
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Bag in the wind2010
Summary: One cold, spring morning, an ordinary grocery bag begins blowing around a landfill, then as it travels down a road, through a stream, and into a town, it is used in various ways by different people, many of whom do not even notice it.- place hold (0)
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What won't break : a poetry collection2022
Summary: A collection of poetry forged of expansion of thought on the things that bind, mend, grant closure, and unbind to celebrate the resilience of the human spirit.- place hold (0)
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Charlie learns about her food allergies2022
Summary: Charlie is a funny, creative, caring young girl who shares her experience with us as she learns about her multiple food allergies. Along the way, she tells us ways to stay safe, how her parents... more »- place hold (0)
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The coronation2022
Summary: A poetry collection which utilizes over twenty-five poetry forms to extract raw emotion and power and transmute it into pure encouragement and motivation. The poems lay the blueprints for how anyone can turn a negative situation into a positive one.- place hold (0)
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The land remains : a Midwestern perspective on our past and future2022
Summary: This book blends personal memoir, a history of Midwestern land conservation, and an analysis of contemporary issues of soil health, water quality, public lands, and future challenges to tell the... more »- place hold (0)
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Am I doing this right? : foundations for a successful career and a fulfilling life2022
Summary: This book is written for everyone who has ever wondered, am I doing this right? when thinking about their lives and careers.- place hold (0)
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Baby pictures : my year on the road with Baby Lester and the Buggybumpers2022
Summary: B. John Burns was a middle-class Catholic school graduate destined, in the eyes of everyone who knew him, for law school. But after an unexpectedly rousing reception for one of his original songs at... more »- place hold (0)
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Dewey : there's a cat in the library!2009
Summary: When librarian Vicki Myron finds a young kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box, she nurses him back to health, deciding then and there that he will be their library cat, and naming him, appropriately, Dewey Readmore Books.- place hold (0)
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Bet the farm : the dollars and sense of growing food in America2021
Summary: In her late 40s, Beth Hoffman decided to upend her comfortable life as a professor and journalist to move to her husband's family ranch in Iowa -- all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was... more »- place hold (0)
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In a sunburned country2000
Summary: It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents, and still Australia teems with life -- a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact,... more »- place hold (0)
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The lost continent : travels in small-town America1989
Summary: After living in England for the past decade, Bill Bryson felt compelled to come home to America. Driving his mother's old car, he logged thousands of miles in 38 states. From Mark Twain's birthplace... more »- place hold (0)
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Twelve o'clock haiku : leadership lessons from old war movies & new poems2022
Summary: In a cheeky critique of the classic American airpower narrative, "Twelve O'Clock High," soldier-poet, essayist, and humorist Randy Brown explores what it means to be a leader or follower at war --... more »- place hold (0)
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Performing murder2022
Summary: The violent death of a famous actress rocks the rural Iowa town of Orney, where a Hollywood movie company is filming on location. Local newspaper reporter Tony Harrington is stunned by the murder, as... more »- place hold (0)
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Cry from an unknown grave2020
Summary: A late-night cry for help from a teenage girl puts Tony Harrington and his colleagues at a small-town newspaper onto the trail of a ring of human traffickers. The girl's description of the horrors... more »- place hold (0)
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Burying the lede2018
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The third side of murder2021
Summary: The unexpected death of a favorite cousin takes Iowa newspaper reporter Tony Harrington and his mother, Carlotta, to the Amalfi Coast of Italy for the funeral. While there, Tony learns beautiful... more »- place hold (0)
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Iowa farm memories2009
Summary: A detailed history of the way it was on an Iowa farm in Woodbury County during the 1940s-1980s.- place hold (0)
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So frag & so bold : short poems, aphorisms & other wartime fun2021
Summary: "Every poet," warns Randy Brown, "has a heart filled / with shrapnel." In his new chapbook, the former U.S. Army "brigade staff jester" takes aim at endless wars, parent traps, social media, and stodgy belief systems.- place hold (0)
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See Jane run!2022
Summary: In August 1977, Jane Newell moved out of her childhood home in Sioux City, Iowa, to teach school in Little Missouri on the western edge of South Dakota. The minute her mother saw the town of 92... more »- place hold (0)
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100 things to do in Iowa before you die2022
Summary: Iowa is home to rolling hills, beautiful state parks, lush cornfields, and architecture that is unique to the state. With more than a dozen scenic highways & byways, and with this guide, your next... more »- place hold (0)
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Stone City2021
Summary: Ashley Morgan, thirty-eight, married and mother of three, is in Cedar Rapids for an educational conference. But a chance encounter with Jaymes Fitzgerald, a free spirited, twenty-four-year-old... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe winning ticket : uncovering America's biggest lottery scam2022
Summary: Rob Sands gives an inside look at one of the most complicated yet seat-of-your-pants financial investigations and prosecutions in recent history. Rob Sand, the youngest attorney in his office, was... more »- place hold (0)
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They saw through God's eyes : an invitation from Mary and the saints2022
Summary: How do you see the people and the world around you? Have you wondered how God views us, others, and creation? When we look at things through God's eyes, everything changes. Suddenly, for those we... more »- place hold (0)
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