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Author
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment gone terribly wrong"--
6) Home
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The day after Buddy Holly dies, Sam McCain's small town life explodes in violence when a young woman is found dead and her husband Kenny confesses to the murder just minutes before he kills himself, but Sam does not believe Kenny killed his wife, and he vows to clear the dead man's name before the true killer strikes again.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Callie, silent since a violent incident in her home three years earlier, is dragged off into the forest by her drunk, irrational father Griff one morning, and when her friend, Petra, disappears from her home at the same time, things begin to look very dark for Griff.
11) Jack
Author
Series
Gilead volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest achievements....
12) Golden age
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
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.
13) A thousand acres
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of an Iowa farmer who decides to retire in 1979 and turns over his valuable land to his three daughters.
14) Lila
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church -- the only available shelter from the rain -- and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and...
16) Missing pieces
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the unsolved murder of his mother in his teens, Sarah Quinlan's husband, Jack, is forced to confront the past in the wake of a devastating accident and disturbing family questions.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The second novel from the author of Wolf in White Van, inspired by his years living in a small town in Iowa"--
Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa in the late 1990s, and he has a problem-- someone is altering the video tapes, inserting poorly lit home video scenes which are odd, sometimes violent, and deeply disquieting. There are recognizable landmarks from just outside of town. As Jeremy investigates, he becomes part of an impossible...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a bookstore in honor of her friend's memory. All she wants...
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