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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
161 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Zorrie Underwood's hardscarbble Indiana county was all she knew until the death of her parents, in the midst of the Depression, sent her westward. She survived on odd jobs, slept in barns and under the stars, and eventually found a position painting clock faces at a radium plant. At the end of each day, the girls at her factory glowed from the radioactive material. Then Indiana called Zorrie home. Spanning a lfie convulsed and transformed by the...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Pub. Date
1945
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community. Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza's love of people and peaceful ways but, unlike Eliza, also displays a fondness for a fast horse and a lively tune. With their children, they must negotiate their way through a world that constantly confronts them-sometimes...
Author
Series
Harmony series (Philip Gulley) volume 2
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Quaker pastor Sam Gardner has an unexpected crisis of faith, and the other members of his parish all try to help him overcome his doubts before he makes a rash decision that will change their town forever.
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Language
English
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Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief and guilt in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"Meet Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean ... Earl's All-You-Can-Eat is home away from home for this inseparable Plainview, Indiana, trio. Dubbed "the Supremes" by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they weather life's storms together for the next four decades. Now, during their most challenging year yet, dutiful, proud, and talented Clarice must struggle to keep up appearances as she deals with her husband's humiliating infidelities. Beautiful,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 324 p. : geneal. table ; 25 cm. [21 cm. pbk.].
Language
English
Description
Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other--with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of misunderstandings that will divide the sisters and reverberate...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paige Hancock starts junior year with a list of ways to take back her life, rather than spending another year as "The Girl Whose Boyfriend Drowned," and finding out that Ryan Chase, her long-term crush, is available again might be the key.
10) Snapper
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Working as a birdwatching guide to scrape together enough money to survive, Nathan Lochmueller performs nature research in backwater Indiana, where he falls in love with a heartbreaking free spirit named Lola and confronts the accidental turns of his life.
Author
Series
Indiana cousins volume 1
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Crippled in a horrific accident, Wayne Lambright feels unable to care for himself, much less Loraine Miller, his future bride. Will he sacrifice his happiness to give Loraine a better life? When ex-boyfriend Jake Beecy returns, Loraine's heart is torn. Will she renew an old love or keep her promise to the new?
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. Returning...
Author
Series
Indiana cousins volume 1, 2, 3
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
882 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follow four young Amish women who are forever changed after a traffic accident takes their friends and leave them scarred. Loraine's fiancé is severely injured and breaks their engagement. Katie's boyfriend is killed, and she sinks into depression. Jolene loses her hearing. Ella tries to hold her cousins together, but even she struggles with the loss of her brother. How will God take a tragedy and turn it for good in their lives?"--Amazon.com.
14) Stone maidens
Author
Series
Christine Prusik volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
311 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the chief forensic anthropologist for the FBI’s Chicago field office, Christine Prusik has worked her fair share of bizarre cases. Yet this one trumps them all: a serial killer is strangling young women and dumping their bodies in the steep, forested ravines of southern Indiana.
With each victim, the killer leaves a calling card: a stone figurine carved like the spirit stones found among the native tribes of Papua New Guinea―the same tribes...
15) Two weeks
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life. Cole Blake, son of Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake, is months away from going off to college and taking the first steps towards his dream--a career in medicine. But as he starts his...
16) One shot
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is called in by James Barr, the man accused of a lethal sniper attack on a heartland city that leaves five people dead, and teams up with a young defense attorney to find an unseen enemy who is manipulating events behind the scenes. Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ruth has been single-handedly raising four young daughters and running her family's Indiana farm for eight long years, since her husband, John, fell into a comatose state. She wishes she could trade places with her older sister, June: blonde and beautiful, married to a wealthy doctor, living in a mansion in St. Paul... [and] a coveted job as one of "the Bettys," the recipe developers who populate General Mills' famous Betty Crocker test kitchens....
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