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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

A True Book

The Midwest is known for its wide-open plains and farmland that stretches as far as the eye can see.A True Book: U.S Regions series allows readers to experience what makes each of America's regions distinctive and exceptional. Readers will get to know each regions' history, geography, wildlife and future outlook. This series includes an age appropriate (grades 3-5) introduction to curriculum-relevant subjects and a robust resource section that encourages independent study.The Midwest is home to some of the nation's most exciting cities. Readers will learn about the region's unique climate, long rivers, and more. They will also discover cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit.

The Midwest

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#hardcover #fiction #nonfiction #haunted #ghost #legends #midwest #ghoststories 

South Carolina

More than 150 true stories of the supernatural Midwest. Readers will enter an America they never knew existed--that of ghosts, haunted houses, possession and exorcism, of vanishing people and ships, mystery lights, premonitory dreams and more. A perennial Halloween favorite. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Haunted Heartland

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Mark Twain

Oliver Ho

Arthur Pober

New York

Retold from the Mark Twain Original

An abridged version of the adventures of a nineteenth-century boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Classic Starts®: the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Melanie Shankle

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

Catching the Light at Every Turn

"There is really no better indicator you're a mother than acquiring the ability to catch throw-up in a plastic bag, disinfect your hands, and immediately ask your friend to pass the beef jerky as you put on another Taylor Swift song and act as if nothing has happened."This is the type of insight Melanie Shankle offers in this quirky memoir of motherhood.Written in the familiar, stream-of-consciousness style of her blog, Big Mama, Sparkly Green Earringsis a heartwarming and hilarious look at motherhood from someone who is still trying to figure it all out. Filled with personal stories--from the decision to become a mother to the heartbreak of miscarriage and ultimately, to the joy of raising a baby and living to tell about it--Sparkly Green Earringswill make you feel like you're sitting across the table from your best friend. A must-read for anyone who's ever had a child or even thought about it.

Sparkly Green Earrings

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Alison Mcghee

An eleven-year-old girl being raised by a single mother in the Adirondack region of New York begins asking questions about her biological father and her maternal grandmother.

Shadow Baby

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A Novel

A completely original first novel ... reads like a collaboration between Nathanael West and Garrison Keillor, or David Lynch and Grandma Moses. (Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times on What's Eating Gilbert Grape)Peter Hedges' debut novel and his screenplay for the subsequent film established him as a preeminent young American writer. Critics praised his quirky yet unmistakably real characters, his spare, radiant prose, and his ability to illuminate the unexpected within the ordinary.In his second novel, Hedges again turns to the heartland for his setting -- this time suburban Iowa, 1969. Scotty Ocean is turning seven years old, and he has announced that seven is going to be his year. It does turn out to be his year -- but not the year he imagined. His mother abandons the family, and at first Scotty does astonishing things to get her to return. When he realizes she won't be coming back, he decides he must replace her. And when that proves impossible, he takes dramatic action to try to remain forever seven.Hilariously funny and profoundly moving, An Ocean In Iowa is a timeless book about universal themes: the fragile contracts between parents and children, and what it really means to grow up.

An Ocean in Iowa

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This book is in very good condition, no breaks to the spine or binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. There is a little scuffing and light pitting on the back cover (no dust jacket). 240pp, printed in 2012.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Compiled by the editors of Midwest Living magazine, this contains more than 275 favorite recipes for every occasion-from special breakfasts and brunches to simple dinners and sumptuous desserts, all with the distinct flavor of the Heartland.

Midwest Living Best Recipes Collection

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#nonfiction #autobiography #hardcover #midwest #faith #childhood #polio

A Memoir

The author recalls being stricken with spinal polio during his teenage years and how, when he emerged from the grip of the disease, he confronted the challenge of redefining himself at a young age

A Nearly Normal Life

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Pocket Books

Anonymous

Alaska

When Gregory Marron Jr. arrives dead in his limo at a social event honoring his family, three women--Katie, Maddie, and Carly--have reason to suspect murder, and the ensuing investigation turns up several suspects and past secrets.

Oakdale Confidential

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Intelligent, well written mystery. 
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Wisconsin

The Wheat Field

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Maryland

While under the care of Alice Goodwin, a neighbor's child drowns in the Goodwins' pond, a devastating accident that has profound repercussions for the entire Goodwin family, in a story set in a small Midwestern farm town

A Map of the World

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Leif Enger

The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart

Virgil Wander

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Michigan

A fiction debut that will leave you wanting seconds, from an award-winning cookbook author.

Claire "Neely" O'Neil is a pastry chef of extraordinary talent. Every great chef can taste shimmering, elusive flavors that most of us miss, but Neely can "taste" feelings-cinnamon makes you remember; plum is pleased with itself; orange is a wake-up call. When flavor and feeling give Neely a glimpse of someone's inner self, she can customize her creations to help that person celebrate love, overcome fear, even mourn a devastating loss.

Maybe that's why she feels the need to go home to Millcreek Valley at a time when her life seems about to fall apart. The bakery she opens in her hometown is perfect, intimate, just what she's always dreamed of-and yet, as she meets her new customers, Neely has a sense of secrets, some dark, some perhaps with tempting possibilities. A recurring flavor of alarming intensity signals to her perfect palate a long-ago story that must be told.

Neely has always been able to help everyone else. Getting to the end of this story may be just what she needs to help herself.

The Cake Therapist

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#hardcover #christmas #midwest #americana #stories #family #winter #firstedition

This little book of stories is in good condition with no wear to the spine or binding. Pages are clean and unmarked, except for the year written on inside page 1. Dust jacket has a couple of small tears and spine is worn a little bit at the bottom. 144 pp. Printed in 1984. First Edition.

From the Midwest's very first Christmases to the Christmases of the pioneers, to Christmases in this changing twentieth century ... assortment in poem, picture and story, all done by the best of Midwest writers and artists.

Christmas in the Midwest

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Richard C. Longworth

America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism

The Midwest has always been the heart of America-both its economic bellwether and the repository of its national identity. Now, in a new, globalized age, the Midwest is challenged as never before. With an influx of immigrant workers and an outpouring of manufacturing jobs, the region that defines the American self-the Lake Wobegon image of solid, hardworking farmers and factory hands-is changing at breakneck speed. As factory farms and global forces displace old ways of life, the United States is being transformed literally from the inside out. In Caught in the Middle, longtime Chicago Tribune reporter Richard C. Longworth explores the new reality of life in today's heartland and reveals what these changes mean for the region-and the country. Ranging from the manufacturing collapse that has crippled the Midwest to the biofuels revolution that may save it, and from the school districts struggling with new migrants to the Iowa meatpacking town that can't survive without them, Longworth addresses what's right and what's wrong in the region, and offers a prescription for how it must change-politically as well as economically-if it is to survive and prosper.

Caught in the Middle

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Book has seen some love over the years. Writing on inside of front cover, water damage to spine and some tearing on the dust jacket 

Arizona

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Gone to Dust

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Patricia Hampl

Prompted by her mother's death, the author reassesses her Midwestern youth as the daughter of a debonair, Czech florist father and an Irish mother with a talent as a storyteller, detailing life during the postwar years and the turbulent sixties.

The Florist's Daughter

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Nick Reding

Iowa

The Death and Life of an American Small Town

Traces the efforts of a small Iowa community to counter the pervasiveness of crystal methamphetamine, in an account that offers insight into the drug's appeal while chronicling the author's numerous visits with the town's doctor, the local prosecutor and a long-time addict. Reprint. A best-selling book.

Methland

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Beth Scott

Michael Norman

1985
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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Ohio

Elizabeth Stuckey-French

Magic marker at top but otherwise excellent. 

Massachusetts

Stories

Stuckey-French writes intelligent, poignant, funny literary fiction with an edge. Stocked with Midwesterners trying to make their way in a changing social landscape, this debut collection of stories introduces characters who walk a thin line between reality and delusion.

The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa

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Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Connecticut

After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Dairy Queen

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Booth Tarkington

North Carolina

The lives and changing fortunes of 3 generations of a once-powerful and socially prominent family are chronicled in this vivid tale of the corrupting influence of greed and materialism. As the wheels of industry and commerce rapidly usher in the early 20th century, ambition, success, loyalty, prominence and prestige for the Amberson family forever changes.

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