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1) Scowler
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall, The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, Rotters, and more, comes this equal parts haunting and horrifying horror novel that gves readers insight into the mind of a controlling homicidal man and the son who must stop him.
"Marvin Burke is one of the great monsters of literature, a figure of immense, credible terror and savagery."—Cory Doctorow, author...
"Marvin Burke is one of the great monsters of literature, a figure of immense, credible terror and savagery."—Cory Doctorow, author...
Author
Series
Book of Mormon sleuth volume 1
Publisher
Deseret Book Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Great Aunt Ella gives fourteen-year-old Brandon her rare edition of the Book of Mormon, expecting him to follow its teachings and keep it safe from the menacing thief who is determined to take it from her Iowa farm.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her fifty-second bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of the power of lies, the misuse of trust — and of one woman's triumph over a devastating betrayal.
Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America,...
Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America,...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As ten-year-old Gwyn searches for a missing neighbor in her new town in Iowa, she learns much about her mother, who grew up there but has suffered from memory loss since Gwyn was four.
Author
Series
Lake Manawa summers volume 3
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A charming roller coaster designer takes no-nonsense young widow Lilly Hart on the ride of her life when Lilly steps out of the shadows of her intrusive in-laws and takes a summer job as a cook at Lake Manawa.
Author
Series
Lake Manawa summers volume 1
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
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
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
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.
9) Stealing Air
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
You can't just ask for the chance to fly . . .When his dad announced they were moving to Iowa, Brian looked forward to making some new friends. But on his first day there he makes an enemy instead — Frankie Heller, the meanest kid in town. Brian needs to hang out with someone cool to get back on track. . . .Alex has always been the coolest guy around, and good with money, just like his dad. But now the family is struggling, and he needs...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC
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"--
11) At heaven's door
Author
Series
Barrington family saga volume 3
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the bookworm who's not afraid to be different; and Claire, who...
13) Missing pieces
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
©2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
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 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 that...
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Emily's been shipped off to Iowa to live with her überconservative cousins. Aria's boyfriend is behind bars--because of her. Spencer's afraid she was involved in Ali's murder. But Hanna's fate is far worse: she's clinging to life in the hospital because she knew too much. If these girls don't start listening to me, Hanna's going to look like the lucky one"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 4
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Robinson's slow prose is the star here, and narrator Adam Verner gives great depth of emotion to Jack's raw suffering and ethical dilemmas...Come for the love story; stay for a couple who learn to find the beauty in broken humanity, and what grace can look like for those who love each other." — Booklist
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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...
Author
Series
Lake Manawa summers volume 2
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suffragette Emily Graham resists her relatives' attempts to find her a husband among the guests at the Lake Manawa resort, while Carter Stockton enjoys pitching for the Manawa Owls baseball team and dreads going into business.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the second installment, following Some Luck, of her widely acclaimed, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America
Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died,...
Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Superb and subtle psychological suspense.”—Lee Child
A haunting novel from the author of The Weight of Blood about a young woman’s return to her childhood home—and her encounter with the memories and family secrets it holds
ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST
Arrowood is the most ornate and grand of the historical houses that line the Mississippi River in southern Iowa. But the...
A haunting novel from the author of The Weight of Blood about a young woman’s return to her childhood home—and her encounter with the memories and family secrets it holds
ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST
Arrowood is the most ornate and grand of the historical houses that line the Mississippi River in southern Iowa. But the...
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