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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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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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#oprahsbookclub #bestseller #janehamilton #betrayal #guilt #midwest #farm

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

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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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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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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Bobbie Kalman

Part of a middle school series by Crabtree. I have other books available by this author.

With the westward expansion of the railroad, immigrants from all over the world poured in to settle the land. Children learn about the hard-working people who built the railroads from sea to sea, and how the railroads they built changed the face of western North America forever. Full color.

The Railroad

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Bathroom Readers' Institute Staff

Writing inside front cover. Otherwise pristine. See photos. 

What do Yoopers and Trolls have in common? Not much to hear them tell it, but both types of Michigander appreciate great bathroom reading. And they're proud to call Michigan home! Celebrate the state that brought us Motown, Henry Ford, and the world's only floating post office. So no matter which peninsula you call home, get ready for a funny, unforgettable visit. Read about...
 
* Feather bowling
* Shipwrecked in Paradise
* Go to Hell and back in Hell, Michigan
* Michigan's other famous Ford: a president named Gerald
* The Red Flannel Festival, and other ways Michiganders brave the winter
* How a 1966 Michigan State University game changed football forever
* Michigan's role in the birth of rock 'n' roll
* Test your knowledge of the Great Lakes
* Detroit's Whiskey River
* Smelt dipping 101
 
And much, much more!


Plunges into Michigan

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#paperback #nonfiction #autobiography #midwest #family #dianejohnson #flyoverlives #memoir nearly perfect condition, never read  Sticker damage on back cover, see photo 

Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the world--and did. Now having travelled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she is stung when a French friend teases her about Americans' indifference to history.

Flyover Lives

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Leif Enger

North Carolina

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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Andrew J. Graff

Illinois

A Novel

"A rousing adventure yarn full of danger and heart and humor." --Richard Russo

An instant classic for fans of Jane Smiley and Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?

It's the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer "Fish" Branson and Dale "Bread" Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don't talk about.

One night, tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, Fish takes action. A gunshot rings out and the two boys flee the scene, believing themselves murderers. They head for the woods, where they find their way onto a raft, but the natural terrors of Ironsforge gorge threaten to overwhelm them.

Four adults track them into the forest, each one on a journey of his or her own. Fish's mother Miranda, a wise woman full of fierce faith; his granddad, Teddy, who knows the woods like the back of his hand; Tiffany, a purple-haired gas station attendant and poet looking for connection; and Sheriff Cal, who's having doubts about a life in law enforcement.

The adults track the boys toward the novel's heart-pounding climax on the edge of the gorge and a conclusion that beautifully makes manifest the grace these characters find in the wilderness and one another. This timeless story of loss, hope, and adventure runs like the river itself amid the vividly rendered landscape of the Upper Midwest.

Raft of Stars

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Ann McGovern

If you grew up with Abraham Lincoln--Would you have to work hard?--What kinds of games would you play?--What would your school be like?This book tells you what it was like to grow up on the frontiers of Kentucky and Indiana, in the prairie town of New Salem, Illinois, and in the city of Springfield, Illinois, during the early 1800s.

If You Grew up with Abraham Lincoln

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Thomas Maltman

A beautiful heartfelt story about a difficult and shameful period in Minnesota history.  Award winning fiction around the Dakota war when the rest of the country was focused on the Civil War.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

"We all set our sights on the Great American Novel. . . . [Thomas Maltman] comes impressively close to laying his hands on the grail." --The Boston Globe

The intertwining story of three generations of German immigrants to the Midwest--their clashes with slaveholders, the Dakota uprising and its aftermath--is seen through the eyes of young Asa Senger, named for an uncle killed by an Indian friend. It is the unexpected appearance of Asa's aunt Hazel, institutionalized since shortly after the mass hangings of thirty-eight Dakota warriors in Mankato in 1862, that reveals to him that the past is as close as his own heartbeat.

The Night Birds

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#hardcover #nonfiction #cookbook #midwest #food #abbymandel #illustrated #recipies

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

Real Food for Real Times

"To Americans all over the country, the heartland means comfort, tradition, and good home cooking. It is also the source of some of the best produce, cheeses, meats - and even caviar - in the United States. And it is this cornucopia that Abby Mandel celebrates in her new book of approximately two hundred recipes, calling on the best of American home cooking and the best of the country's bounty used in new and innovative ways." "From beef brisket and caramelized onions to corn fritters, from oven "fried" chicken to lemon poppyseed noodles, the dishes in Celebrating the Midwestern Table are reminiscent of families around the table, good talk, and warm memories. But these are also recipes that pay due respect to modern taste and concerns for health, and that use less fat, less meat, and more wonderful vegetables and grains than our grandmothers' versions would have done." "A longtime Chicago resident, Abby Mandel knows better than anyone what goodness the American Midwest has to offer; as a veteran food writer and cooking teacher, she knows how to translate that goodness into recipes designed to tempt home cooks across the country."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Celebrating the Midwest Table

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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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J. Ryan Stradal

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

"Stradal serves up another saga of food and family, hurt and healing, pitched between cliff-hanger moments. . . that make the pages fly." --People

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them

    Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she's been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decades, and while Mariel's grandmother embraced the business, seeing it as a saving grace, Florence never took to it. When Mariel inherited the restaurant, skipping Florence, it created a rift between mother and daughter that never quite healed.
    Ned is also an heir--to a chain of home-style diners--and while he doesn't have a head for business, he knows his family's chain could provide a better future than his wife's fading restaurant. In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, Ned and Mariel lose almost everything they hold dear, and the hard-won victories of each family hang in the balance. With their dreams dashed, can one fractured family find a way to rebuild despite their losses, and will the Lakeside Supper Club be their salvation?
    In this colorful, vanishing world of relish trays and brandy Old Fashioneds, J. Ryan Stradal has once again given us a story full of his signature honest, lovable yet fallible Midwestern characters as they grapple with love, loss, and marriage; what we hold onto and what we leave behind; and what our legacy will be when we are gone.

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

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Beth Scott

Michael Norman

John Hildebrand

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

The Chronicle of a Family

In a book that is "both a personal testament and an absorbing chronicle of agrarian history" (New York Times Book Review), Hildebrand relates the story of four generations of farming O'Neills in Minnesota--a quintessentially American tale of land and labor, memory and loss. of photos. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Mapping the Farm

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Eve Bunting

I have other books available by this author 

Eager to start a new life in a new land, Zoe and her family journey west to the Nebraska Territory in the 1800s.

When Zoe and her family arrive at their claim, nothing distinguishes it from the miles and miles of surrounding prairie. Even after they build their soddie, the home can't be seen from any distance.

Zoe has never seen Papa so happy or Mama so sad. But when she takes a trip to the small prairie town with Papa, Zoe sees something that might make a difference to their new soddie, and to Mama's life, too.

"Bunting tells an poignant story, which is made even more affecting by its lovely illustrations." --School Library Journal (starred review)

Dandelions

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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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Great condition! Has writing inside front cover, see all pics 😊

Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby can't find anything good to say about Clearview, Illinois, where he must spend the next ten months living with a father he knows only through birthday cards, a stepmother he didn't know existed, and four half brothers intent on making him the "freak" of the town. When life in Clearview becomes unbearable, Frankie Joe hatches a plan to ride his bike back to the Lone Star Trailer Park in Laredo, Texas. For that he needs money, and so he opens Frankie Joe's Freaky Fast Delivery Service. But Frankie Joe hasn't counted on quirky clients, unpredictable winter weather, and his equally unpredictable new family.

Freaky Fast Frankie Joe

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Elizabeth Hardinger

Pennsylvania

Growing up on a farm in rural Kentucky, fifteen-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow knows how to do a lot, but when her mom dies, Bertie finds herself in charge of four younger siblings and struggling to keep the family together.

All the Forgivenesses

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North Dakota

#hardcover #cookbook #cooking #recipes #comfortfood #americana #midwest #heartland #likemomusedtomake

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.

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.

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The Midwest

Mark Twain; Oliver Ho; Arthur Pober

Classic Starts®: the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Jane Hamilton

A Map of the World

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The Cake Therapist

Richard C. Longworth

Caught in the Middle

Bobbie Kalman

The Railroad

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Plunges into Michigan

Diane Johnson

Flyover Lives

Leif Enger

Virgil Wander

Andrew J. Graff

Raft of Stars

Ann McGovern

If You Grew up with Abraham Lincoln

Ann McGovern

If You Grew up with Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Maltman

The Night Birds

Abby Mandel

Celebrating the Midwest Table

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Haunted Heartland

J. Ryan Stradal

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

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Haunted Heartland

John Hildebrand

Mapping the Farm

Eve Bunting

Dandelions

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A Nearly Normal Life

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Freaky Fast Frankie Joe

Elizabeth Hardinger

All the Forgivenesses

Beth Scott; Michael Norman

Haunted Heartland

Meredith Publishing

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