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Series
Lake Manawa summers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nineteen-year-old Marguerite Westing finds two new loves--sailing and sailing instructor Trip Andrews--when her family summers at Lake Manawa, Iowa, in 1895, but a family crisis forces her to make a difficult decision.
Author
Series
Home to Amana novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the picturesque Amana Colonies, two very different young women are looking for answers. But secrets run deep there, and the truth could alter everything.
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 1
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
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From the inspiring teenager who unified the fundraising efforts of children across the U.S., and raised more than $10 million for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina at the age of 10, comes the ultimate, and most unexpected, guide for everyone who dreams of making a difference.
7) Arrowood
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Arden Arrowood was four years old, her two-year-old twin sisters were stolen from the front yard of their hometown of Keokuk, Iowa, on the Mississippi River while Arden watched. Twenty years later, she returns home to confront the darkest part of her past. As the mystery unravels, the novel explores the reliability of memory, the stories we tell ourselves, and the power of love.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
What does it take to be an Olympic gold medalist and to coach a collegiate team to fifteen NCAA titles? In A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable, famed wrestler and wrestling coach Dan Gable tells engaging and inspiring stories of his childhood in Waterloo, Iowa; overcoming the murder of his sister as a teenager; his sports career from swimming as a young boy, to his earliest wrestling matches, through the 1972 Olympics; coaching at...
Author
Series
Home to Amana novels volume 2
Publisher
BETHANY House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When unforeseen circumstances drive Jancey Rhoder to move to the Amana Colonies, she'll be forced to reconsider everything she wanted out of life--and love"--Provided by publisher.
Series
Boxcar children volume 101
Publisher
A. Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Aldens visit a farm that's famous for its corn maze and the festival held there every year. But someone is damaging the maze at night. Can the Boxcar Children catch the culprit and save the festival?
12) Extreme prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After the events in Gathering Prey (2015), Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation -- no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. "Should be fun!" he says, and it kind of is -- until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor and anyone who gets in the way.
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
" An integrative approach to healing chronic autoimmune conditions by a doctor, researcher, and sufferer of progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) whose TEDx talk is already a web sensation Like many physicians, Dr. Terry Wahls focused on treating her patients' ailments with drugs or surgical procedures-until she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2000. Within three years, her back and stomach muscles had weakened to the point where she needed...
14) Kira-Kira
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair felt when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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