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2) Home
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.
3) Arrowood
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.
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
Language
English
Description
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "powerful and poignant" twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear (The New York Times Book Review) that takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride—and centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters.
When the youngest daughter objects, she is cut out of his will. This...
When the youngest daughter objects, she is cut out of his will. This...
Author
Series
Daughters of Amana volume 3
Language
English
Description
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.
7) Lila
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by a canny young drifter and together they crafted a life on the run. Despite some petty violence and moments of desperation, their life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.
Author
Language
English
Description
Veteran social worker Ellen Moore is a fiercely dedicated children's advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But one blistering summer day, a simple moment of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined, threatening to shatter everything she holds dear, and trapping her between the gears of the system she works for. Meanwhile, ten-year-old Jenny Briard suddenly finds herself on her own, forced to survive with nothing but...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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 Clark is sweet, gentle, a dreamer who suffers from selective mutism brought on by tragedy that pulled her deep into silence as a toddler. Calli's mother, Antonia, tried to be the best mother she could within the confines of marriage to a mostly absent, often...
10) The music man
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (181 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy's band, but his game ultimately and romantically backfires.
11) Iowa
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
12) Early warning
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Family patriarch Walter Langdon has died, and his children have fanned out across the country. The narrative moves year by year from 1953 to 1986, encompassing Cold War blinkeredness, Sixties rebellion, and escalating wealth into the Eighties.
Author
Series
Songbird series volume 2
Language
English
Description
The happily married owner of two successful boutiques, Jade longs to begin a family. But when she discovers that her husband has an illegitimate son and wants her to help raise him, Jade's life turns upside down. She flees to her childhood home, a rambling Iowa farmhouse with room enough to breathe. There - while her mother's health grows fragile - Jade begins to question everything she thought she knew about family, love, and motherhood.
Author
Language
English
Description
1967 Iowa. Nursing school roommates BettyKay and Kitty don't have much in common. BettyKay has risked her family's disapproval to pursue her dreams away from her small town. Cosmopolitan Kitty has always relied on her beauty and smarts to get by and to hide a painful secret. Yet the two share a determination to prove themselves in a changing world, forging an unlikely bond on a campus unkind to women. Before their first year is up, tragedy strikes,...
16) The fields
Author
Series
Riley Fisher volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body--a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal when she discovers the victim was a childhood friend, connected to a dark past...
19) Iowa
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From learning how tractors are made to cooling off in the ice cream capital of the world, there's lots to see and do in Iowa! Additional features include maps on each spread, state symbols, famous people, fact bubbles, and informative captions that highlight some of the things that make Iowa special"--Publisher's website.
20) Iowa
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, chart, portraits ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Located in the heart of the Midwest, Iowa is filled with sprawling farms and welcoming communities. Readers will see what makes the state so great, from its local cuisine to its unique celebrations. They will also find out how Iowas government works.
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