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Dorothy Bunting Montgomery
(17)
Summary: Patrice Powell is a New York-based magazine writer for European Art magazine. She reluctantly returns to her native Iowa to write a story about the death of Nan Wood Graham -- the famous face of...
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Call #: F MONTGOMERY
Location: New Adult Fiction
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Judith Miller
Series:
Daughters Of Amana
(245)
Summary: 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.
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Call #: F MILLER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Andrew Smith
(16,867)
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Call #: YA F SMITH
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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M. Molly Backes
Summary: 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...
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Anne Ylvisaker
(533)
Summary: In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family's luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery that only she can solve.
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John Kelling
Summary: The year was 2010. PFC Charlie Martin was getting ready for the ride of his life. He was about to deploy along with some 4,000 other Iowa and Nebraska National Guard troops to the pit they call...
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Call #: F KELLING
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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M. Molly Backes
(2,213)
Summary: 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...
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Call #: YA F BACKES
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Donald Harstad
(1,144)
Summary: Life in Maitland, Iowa, is usually predictable, even for a cop. But all that changes the day Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman's dispatcher receives the terrifying 911 call. The day cops find the...
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Melanie B Dobson
(566)
Summary: "Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in...
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Melanie B Dobson
Summary: "Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in...
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Call #: F DOBSON
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Elizabeth Stuckey-French
(122)
Summary: "Welcome to the curious world of Elizabeth Stuckey-French. Her exuberant collection is peopled with characters who walk a thin line between reality and delusion, trying to break out of their molds...
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Call #: F STUCKEY-FRENCH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Melanie B Dobson
Series:
Love Finds You Series
Summary: "Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in...
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Call #: LP F DOBSON
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Melanie B Dobson
(40)
Summary: As the rest of the nation is embroiled in Civil War, the Amana Colonies remain peaceful. Amalie Wiese arrives in the newly built village of Amana in 1863 only to find that her betrothed, Friedrich,...
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Jane Smiley
(62,475)
Summary: Dark truths and long-suppressed emotions come to the surface in 1979 when a successful Iowa farmer decides to cut one of his daughters out of his will.
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Heather Gudenkauf
Summary: "It happens quietly one August morning. As dawn's shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night. Seven-year-old Calli...
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Call #: F GUDENKAUF
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Kimberly Stuart
Summary: "New Yorker Sadie Maddox is the toast of the classical-music world-and a bit of a diva. But lately her CD sales are sagging, not to mention parts of her anatomy. Maybe it's time for a change. So when...
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Kimberly Stuart
(151)
Summary: "New Yorker Sadie Maddox is the toast of the classical-music world-and a bit of a diva. But lately her CD sales are sagging, not to mention parts of her anatomy. Maybe it's time for a change. So when...
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Call #: F STUART
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jane Smiley
(62,473)
Summary: Presents a powerful, mythic story of an American farm family in Iowa.
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Call #: CD BOOK F SMILEY
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jan Blazanin
(151)
Summary: In Iowa farm country, sixteen-year-old Aspen and her friend Laurel plan to get noticed the summer before their senior year and are unwittingly aided by pig triplets, a skunk, a chicken, bullies, a rookie policeman, and potential boyfriends.
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Donald Harstad
Series:
Carl Housemen Series - #1
(1,144)
Summary: Life in Maitland, Iowa, is usually predictable, even for a cop. But all that changes the day Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman's dispatcher receives the terrifying 911 call. The day cops find the...
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Call #: PB HAR
Location: Adult Paperbacks
copies in: 1 of 1
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Heather Gudenkauf
(7,974)
Summary: 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.
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Call #: F GUDENKAUF
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jess McConkey
(620)
Summary: After marrying Joseph Krause and moving with him to the Iowa farm that has been in his family for generations, Kate, struggling to find her place in the small farming community, discovers that her...
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Call #: F MCCONKEY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jane Smiley
Series:
Last Hundred Years Trilogy
(18,415)
Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children. Each chapter covers a single year, beginning in 1920,...
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Call #: F SMILEY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jane Smiley (read by Lorelei King)
Series:
Last Hundred Years Trilogy
(18,415)
Summary: 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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Call #: CD BOOK F SMILEY
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jennifer Wilson
Summary: "City reporter Freja Folsom wants nothing to do with the environmental story she's been assigned. But a man who illegally dropped a well in to the city's aquifer leads Freja to the passionate...
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Call #: F WILSON
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Heidi Cullinan
(1,096)
Summary: When the State of Iowa restructures its mental health system and puts the independent living facility where he lives in jeopardy, Emmet Washington refuses to be forced into substandard, privatized...
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Call #: F CULLINAN
Location: Adult Fiction
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Robert Denton Brownell
Summary: "As World War II sweeps the globe, George Hargrave always thought he'd be a clothing store clerk forever, stuck in his comfortable -- if unsatisfying -- Iowa life until death or retirement claimed...
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Call #: F BROWNELL
Location: Adult Fiction
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Robert Denton Brownell
(1)
Summary: "Amidst the gently rolling hills and endless cornfields of rural Iowa, a religious order known as the Community has existed separate from the outside world since the 1850s. To outsiders, it is a...
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Call #: F BROWNELL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Robert Denton Brownell
(7)
Summary: "1917 - In a remote corner of northwest Iowa, young Harold is desperate to escape an abusive father and the dreary life already laid out for him. He yearns to escape, to travel and see places he can...
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Call #: F BROWNELL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mary Lee Ashford
Series:
A Sugar & Spice Mystery - #1
(276)
Summary: As co-owner of Sugar and Spice Cookbooks, Sugar Calloway has seen simple confections bring friends together and spark fiery feuds. Except this time, the recipe truly is to die for. After losing her...
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Call #: F ASHFORD
Location: Adult Fiction
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Carmella Ann Schultes
Summary: "The perfect storm has been brewing for over 30 years for Isabelle Potts, a liberal feminist in a conservative faith based community in Northwest Iowa. As it comes to a head in the political climate...
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Call #: F SCHULTES
Location: Adult Fiction
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