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21) Jasmine
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its...
22) Shoeless Joe
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A dreamer builds a baseball diamond amid the Iowa cornfields and waits for the outstanding, but dead, baseball players of the past to show up for a very special game.
24) Waiting season
Author
Series
[Growing Season] volume 4
Publisher
Fremont Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Lake Manawa summers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this lighthearted historical romance set at a turn-of-the-century lake resort, an independent young woman doesn't think she needs a man until a brash young baseball player catches her eye.
27) Turning season
Author
Series
Publisher
Fremont Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Melinda throws herself into plans for the rural community's first-ever fall festival, and all the seasonal tasks around her small farm. But her sun-dappled days are disrupted when little Prosper is suddenly thrust into the spotlight. An unexpected windfall gives new life to a long-held hope, and a surprising discovery puts everyone on edge. And as the mayor's race heats up, Melinda discovers small-town politics can be worse than anything that goes...
28) Some luck
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. As time passes, their little family will grow: from Frank, the handsome, willful first-born, to Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him; from Lillian, beloved by her mother, to Henry who craves only the world of his books; and Claire, the surprise baby, who earns a special place in her father's...
30) A simple change
Author
Series
Home to Amana novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Joining the communal society of the Amana Colonies isn't what Jancey Rhoder planned, but when forced by unforeseen circumstances, she gives up teaching in a Kansas City orphanage and moves with her parents to Iowa. Her suitor, Nathan Woodward, isn't at all happy. And Jancey herself isn't sure what she's gotten herself into when the simple life of the Amana Colonies means she'll be assigned a job and may have to give up teaching for good.
Author
Series
[Melinda Foster] volume 8
Publisher
Fremont Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
All is calm in Melinda's hometown ... until outsiders start to shake things up. The quiet days of early winter make Prosper look like a scene from a snow globe. Holiday lights glow in every window, plans are being made for the Christmas festival, and greetings of good cheer fill the aisles at Prosper Hardware. Everything changes when a national magazine sets its sights on the town's newest business, creating controversy about the best way to put little...
32) Safer
Author
Language
English
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Description
Moving to a quiet midwestern town, Paul and Sara Callaway find their lives turned upside down after a quarrel with a neighbor leads to Paul being framed for a crime he didn't commit.
35) Daffodil season
Author
Series
[Melinda Foster] volume 9
Publisher
Fremont Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
No one is exempt from the winds of change, and that includes the residents of little Prosper. Between debate about the fate of a vacant property and the rush to open the community center, new ideas are taking root all around town. But it's a season of secrets, too. Someone seeks a chance to start over, while others are too proud to ask for a helping hand. And as Melinda searches for answers to a decades-old rumor, she discovers the past is never far...
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,...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A seventeen-year-old star student and gifted athlete hides the painful truths about her private life, including a failing family farm, her mother's growing apocalyptic fears, the institutionalization of her special-needs sister, and her romance with the son of Hmong immigrants.
40) Golden age
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
"The third book of a trilogy about a farm family from Iowa, which takes them from the late 1980s through the present and into the future"--
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