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83) God's fool
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
85) Dagon
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
LSU Press edition.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven Kentucky stories set in the 1940s and featuring farmer Ptolemy Proudfoot and his schoolteacher wife, Miss Minnie. In The Solemn Boy, they invite a couple of hobos to a meal, while Nearly to the Fair comprises Proudfoot's amusing reflections on travel by car. By the author of What Are People For?
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nothing ever happens in Eudora and that's the way this small town, surrounded by oil, wheat and cattle, likes it. Eudorans are allergic to innovation. But when a former resident publishes a novel with characters based on a number of townspeople, it prompts a sudden interest in contemporary literature. All of a sudden, there are a whole lot of new ideas in town -- not all of them good. As longstanding allegiances are challenged, rivalries grow, romance...
89) Sweet September
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Stevenson and her husband Bob are raising their three grandchildren after their mother was killed in an automobile accident..
90) Before the dawn
Author
Series
Home to Heather Creek volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Carolyn Stevenson and her husband Bob welcome Carolyn's three grandchildren to their Nebraska farm following the accident that killed their mother Denise, who ran away from home as a teenager.
Author
Series
Randolph family novels volume 1
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Howard Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A family struggles to maintain their farm and forest as a lumber company tries every trick in the book to push them off their land.
93) Winter run
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
95) East of Denver
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Arriving at his family's farm in Eastern Colorado to discover his father's home in a terrible state because of the dishonest machinations of a corrupt banker, Shakespeare Williams falls in with former classmates in a plot to rob the bank that has cheated them.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When former barrel racer Cheyenne McCafferty left the circuit, she left her past behind too. Now, as part owner of Lavender Blue farm, she's content rescuing and rehabbing horses, and growing a new business. She's only got one regret: letting go of Wyatt Reed. When he professed his love, she was too young and foolish to know her heart. After that he disappeared. But when his beloved horse turns up on the auction block, Chey makes a bid and wins more...
97) Bottomland
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the years after World War I the Hess family attempt to rid themselves of the anti-German sentiment that left a stain on their name. But when the youngest two daughters vanish in the middle of the night, the family must piece together what happened while struggling to maintain their life on the unforgiving Iowa plains.
98) Cottonwood
Author
Series
A Cottonwood novel volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bill, an unfaithful husband and unwilling farmer, has imperilled his marriage because he has stolen his wife's inheritance to build a saloon. A family of serial killers run the Cottonwood Hotel, and as railway money comes to town, Cottonwood's population of prospective victims is set to increase.
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