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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
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Vicki Myron, Bret Witter
The charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the returned book slot at the library. For the next 19 years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer with his enthusiasm, warmth, humility, and, ...
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The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
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Jeffrey Zaslow
From the co-author of the bestselling "The Last Lecture" comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of 11 girls and the women they became.
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The Weight of Silence
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Heather Gudenkauf
Masterfully written and beautifully told, Gudenkauf's debut is a stunning novel of family devotion, honesty, and regret that's sure to linger long after the last page is turned--a story of two families tied by the question of what had happened to their children. Original.
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Home
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Marilynne Robinson
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Gilead" pens a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations.
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
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Mildred Armstrong Kalish
The story of a time, a place, and a way of life, this is a slice of Americana--set during the Great Depression--that shows readers, through the portrait of one high-spirited young girl, how the right stuff can make even a time of adversity seem like a good time.
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Heartbreaker
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Julie Garwood
After trembling his way through a serial killer's confession over his obsession with the lovely Laurant Madden, Catholic priest Tom Madden turns to his friend, FBI agent Nick Buchanan. Tom and Laurant were separated as children following the death of their parents. Laurant grew up in a posh Swiss boarding school; Tom remained in America and was ...
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Gilead
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Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited second novel is named after the town in which it is set: Gilead, Iowa. The time is the 1950s, and John Ames, the town's beloved pastor, is dying of heart disease. Widowed early but recently remarried, John has a very young son. The novel is a final act of love: a letter to the boy, in which he looks back on his ...
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Alice's Tulips
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Sandra Dallas
This epistolary novel consists of the letters a newlywed named Alice writes to her sister Lizzie. Alice's husband is off fighting for the Union; Alice is living with her mother-in-law, learning to quilt, and coping with her first pregnancy.
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Bridges of Madison County
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Robert James Waller
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, the highly romantic tale of a roaming photographer and a lonely housewife, was Robert James Waller's first novel. Its sensitive exploration of a four-day encounter between star-crossed lovers touched hearts everywhere, and gallons of tears were shed at the sad ending. By the time its popularity began to ebb, the book ...
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
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Bill Bryson
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language comes a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century.
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Thousand Acres
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Jane Smiley
Larry Cook isn't getting any younger, and he decides to divide his 1000 acres of prime Iowa farmland between his three very different daughters: Ginny, Rose, and Caroline. But Caroline, who tends to speak her mind, lacks the proper enthusiasm for the deal, and Larry impulsively disinherits her. Vividly set in Iowa farm country, Jane Smiley's saga ...
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Shoeless Joe
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W P Kinsella
Ray Kinsella, an insurance agent turned farmer, begins hearing voices--rather, a Voice. "If you build it, he will come," the Voice tells Ray, who intuitively knows that "he" is Shoeless Joe Jackson, banned from baseball along with the other 1919 "Black Sox." Ray builds a baseball stadium in his cornfield, and waits. But the Voice isn't finished. ...
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A Thousand Country Roads
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Robert James Waller
Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson meet again in a bittersweet follow-up to their initial tryst.
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Kira-Kira
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Cynthia Kadohata
Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem glittering and shining. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering in the future.
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Jasmine
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Bharati Mukherjee
When Jasmine Vijh is widowed in India at 17, she seems fated to a life of isolation in an Indian village. But she flees to America where she becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. The author also wrote The Middleman and Other Stories .
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Slow waltz in Cedar Bend
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Robert James Waller
A romance erupts on a Iowa campus between rebellious economics professor Michael Tillman and Jellie Braden, who is married to the new professor in town. Although they quickly realize that they were destined for one another, Michael must follow Jellie to India in in order to be with her. Jellie has gone there in an attempt to resolve some dark ...
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
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Peter Hedges
Gilbert Grape, a resident of provincial Endora, Iowa, endures the eccentricities of his family and neighbors--including his mother, who is eating herself to death; his Elvis-fanatic sister; his retarded brother; and his married lover.
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Hit and Run
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Lawrence Block
Fingered for a murder he didn't commit, a hit man goes on the run to save his life, in this stunning new work from the "New York Times"-bestselling master of mystery. Top-notch crime fiction.--"Chicago Sun Times."
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Leap of Faith
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Danielle Steel
Marie-Ange, a French-American woman with a tragic past, learns that her husband may be plotting to kill her. Her childhood friend, farmhand Billy Parker, comes to her aid.
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Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America
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Stephen G Bloom
When a Lubavitcher Jew from Brooklyn moves to Postville, Iowa, the townspeople welcome his business, a slaughterhouse that renews the economy of the area. But when Lubavitchers relocate in numbers, and power begins to shift in the community, resentment arises among the older residents, who eventually take strong measures after accusations arise ...
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Patterns of Love
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Robin Lee Hatcher
Inga is the Plain Jane of the Linberg sisters, and as the dutiful oldest daughter, she is resigned to a quiet life helping her father with his Lutheran ministry in Iowa. Enter Dirk Bridges, a dairy farmer looking for help in caring for two young nieces and ailing mother. When Inga agrees to be his live-in housekeeper, she really doesn't expect to ...
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Great Plains
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Ian Frazier
A travelogue of the Great Plains, from the site of Sitting Blue's cabin on the Grand River in South Dakota, to a rock shop made of fossilized dinosaur bones; from an abandoned house where Bonnie and Clyde terrorized the inhabitants in 1933, to the house of the murders in Capote's "In Cold Blood".
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The Oxford Project
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Peter Feldstein (Photographer), Stephen G Bloom (Text by)
In 1984, photographer Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every single resident of his town, Oxford, Iowa. In 2004, Feldstein decided to do it again and invited writer Stephen Bloom to join him. Together they went in search of the same Oxford residents Feldstein had originally shot two decades earlier.
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Crossing Over: One Woman's Escape from Amish Life
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Ruth Irene Garrett, Rick Farrant
Chronicles the author's departure from the strict Old Order Amish community in Kalona, Iowa, and how she escaped a lifetime of rigid rules, privacy, abuse, and oppression to join the modern world while keeping alive her Christian faith. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
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Nick Reding
"Methland" tells the story of Oelwein, Iowa, which, like thousands of other small towns across the country, has been affected by one of the most dangerous drugs in the world.
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