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3) Some luck
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 1
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
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 2
Description
In 1953, the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of post-World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the...
6) Blue jasmine
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
186 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When twelve-year-old Seema moves to Iowa City with her parents and younger sister, she leaves friends and family behind in her native India but gradually begins to feel at home in her new country.
7) Lila
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 3
Description
Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian world view.
10) Home
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Formats
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.
11) A thousand acres
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1996
Physical Desc
13 CDs (15 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Presents a powerful, mythic story of an American farm family in Iowa.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
442 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After being involved in a drunk driving accident in the spring, Paige Sheridan spends the summer in Paris as an au-pair and then returns to her suburban Iowa existence for her senior year of high school, where she begins to wonder if she wants more out life than being popular, having a handsome boyfriend and all the latest clothes, and being a member of the social elite.
14) The trap
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 20 cm
Description
In 1963, when twins Henry and Helen and their best friends, Alan and Nicki, try to find Alan's missing brother, Carl, they stumble into the knowledge of their "subtle forms" that can separate from their physical bodies, and into a criminal's plot to makehimself immortal--at any expense.
15) Golden age
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
443 pages ; genealogical table ; 25 cm.
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"--
16) Leap of faith
Author
Publisher
BDD Audio/Random House
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
17) Missing pieces
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Sarah Quinlan's husband, Jack, has been haunted for decades by the untimely death of his mother when he was just a teenager. Her body was found in the cellar of their family farm, the circumstances a mystery. The case rocked the small farm town of Penny Gate, Iowa, where Jack was raised, and for years Jack avoided returning home. But when his beloved aunt Julia is in an accident, hospitalized in a coma, Jack and Sarah are forced to confront the past...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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...
20) Little mercies
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
"Veteran social worker Ellen Moore has seen the worst side of humanity{u2014}the vilest acts one person can commit against another. She 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,...
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