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Author
Series
Mason novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri, decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. The plan for congenial evenings--talking, laughing, and sharing recipes, homemade food, and wine-- abruptly changes course one night when one of the women reveals something startlingly intimate. The supper club then becomes Confession Club, and the women gather weekly to share not only dinners but embarrassing misdeeds, deep insecurities,...
22) True to form
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2002
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
A delicately-told tale of a young girl wise beyond her years whose growing pains finally awaken her to the clarity of forgiveness and a greater understanding of the complicated world around her.
24) High on a Hill
Author
Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle-of-the-night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house. When a young boy calls to the house, he brings trouble for Anabel and her father.
25) Blood relations
Author
Series
Torie O'Shea mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In Rett MacPherson's charming cozy mysteries, genealogist Torie O'Shea always seems to be right in the middle of it all in the goings-on in New Kassel, Missouri. When a drought hits the tiny river town and the depth of the mighty Mississippi lowers, Torie is one of the first on the scene to see what the water has revealed: the decades-old wreckage of a riverboat. Soon, the rumors that surrounded its sinking have resurfaced as well and are swirling...
Author
Series
Change and cherish volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first book in the Change and Cherish trilogy from the CBA bestseller and WILLA Literary Award Winner, Jane Kirkpatrick.
Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission. In a community...
Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission. In a community...
30) Finn: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Some 120 years ago, Mark Twain left Huckleberry Finn's father dead in a room crowded with oddities: a wooden leg, women's underclothing, two black cloth masks, and more. Clinch's masterly debut draws from the nation's literary heritage to create this completely original story. Unabridged. 9 CDs.
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri, joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of meeting a promise to have adventures that she made her brother, Jon, before he died.
32) Body of evidence
Author
Series
Triple threat series (Irene Hannon) volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Forensic pathologist Grace Reilly has seen her share of unusual deaths in rural Missouri. But when she begins to notice a curious pattern in autopsies of older residents whose demises appear to be natural, she takes her concerns to Sheriff Nate Cox. Nate is skeptical about the link Grace is seeing between the deaths, as well as her suspicions of foul play. But her persistence is compelling. And once they join forces to investigate, danger follows...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Five women in their forties, who grew up together in Kansas City, discuss the shooting by a sixth of her husband, to whom they were all connected in some way. They paint him in colors ranging from perfect lover, to wife abuser, to hated brother. After they have finished, the author allows the husband to reply from the grave.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Now that their kids are grown, Audrey and Grant Whitman have converted their home into a cozy bed-and-breakfast. But then their youngest daughter shows up during opening weekend with a loaded U-Haul--and no husband. Now they'll have to figure out how to help the young couple in addition to running a new inn"--
Author
Series
Fire of grace volume 6
Publisher
[Michael Frederick]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A Midwest family drama series about a talented group of strangers who come together to help Freddy Bland make a documentary." -- Amazon.com.
"There's another kind of Spring in Missouri who knows we're all related and need each other. Freddy Bland" -- Back cover.
36) Huckleberry Finn
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of a young boy travelling down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave.
Author
Series
Danny Duggin novels volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Danielle Strange straps on her father's Colts, saddles up his chestnut mare, and embarks on a mission of revenge when she receives word that he was murdered by outlaws while on his way to Texas to purchase a herd of cattle.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clara Sinclair has learned to live one lonely day at a time. It was the only way she managed to survive her husband's death in World War II and raise their young son alone. But now she's at a loss as to how to handle the defiant teenager he has become, even as she struggles to keep her family financially afloat. She's fresh out of ways to turn her luck around-until a daring stranger's unexpected kindness sparks hope she hasn't felt in a long time...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A distraught businessman who is looking for help walks into the office of a mouthy detective named Jules Bettinger, has a conversation, walks out, and kills himself. Because of this incident, the impolite but decorated policeman is forced to relocate himself and his family from their warm lives in Arizona to the frigid north and work for an understaffed precinct in Victory, Missouri. This collapsed rustbelt city is a dying beast that devours itself...
Author
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three children living on a hardscrabble ranch in Southwestern Missouri. But in 1861, shots were fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby's father and brother went to war. Smoke Jensen The Beginning follows the Jensen clan during these volatile years, from Civil War battles to border state raids to the kind of frontier justice achieved only by bullets and blood. William W. Johnstone chronicles...
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