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Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the book return slot at the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff,...
2) Some luck
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A young woman working at the Dead Letter Office in 1883 opens a series of heartbreaking love letters. She's determined to find their rightful owner and make things right. But a trip to Azure Springs, Iowa, may provide love and healing for more than just the letter writer.
4) Iowa
Author
Publisher
Weigl
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book provides a description of Iowa's history, geography, economy, and culture.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the sheer joy and excitement of it all, I report on my early life. It was quite a romp.
So begins Mildred Kalish’s story of growing up on her grandparents’ Iowa farm during the depths...
So begins Mildred Kalish’s story of growing up on her grandparents’ Iowa farm during the depths...
6) Scowler
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys, including one called Scowler, to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.
7) Iowa
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
8) Iowa
Author
Publisher
ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents current state facts and statistical data, up-to-date details on cities, economics, geography and climate of Iowa, the Hawkeye State.
9) Lila
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lila, an abandoned, homeless girl who earned her street smarts while facing hardship after hardship with a sly young drifter, must decide which life is worth living when she marries the minister who takes her in, introducing her to a Christian worldview that makes her question the life she lived before.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In a desperate bid to save her family's land, Norah King agrees to marry a man she barely knows. But just days before the wedding, she comes across a badly injured stranger who upends all her plans-and steals her heart along the way"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Librarian Vicki Myron finds a young kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box, she nurses him back to health, deciding then and there that he will be their library cat, and naming him, appropriately, Dewey Readmore Books."--Amazon.com.
14) Jack
Author
Series
Gilead volume 4
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa--the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack--and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his...
Author
Series
Last hundred years volume 2
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
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
Publisher
Summerside Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"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 Homestead, Iowa, the local Amana villagers welcome the father and daughter into their peaceful society. Liesel, a young Amana woman, nurses Cassie back to health, and the Homestead elders offer Jacob work. But Jacob's growing interest in Liesel complicates...
20) Rotters
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
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