Viets, Elaine
Summary: Hollywood diva Jessica Gray is finishing the last leg of her one-woman show in St Louis, Missouri, and the nearby town of Chouteau Forest is dazzled. During the show she humiliates three homeless women, fires her entourage and makes a bitter enemy of the town's powerful patriarch. She collapses at an after-show party and is rushed to the hospital, but she ignores the advice of her doctors and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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Summary: Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking classes, sharing the secrets to her delicious classic Southern yellow cake, the perfect pinwheel cookies, and other sweet essentials. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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Summary: A novel about surprising friendships, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change a life. Lucille is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur, she has begun to teach baking classes. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. In these difficult times, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2018
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Summary: Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking classes, sharing the secrets to her delicious classic Southern yellow cake, the perfect pinwheel cookies, and other sweet essentials. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Berg 2018Viets, Elaine
Summary: "Angela Richman, Chouteau County death investigator, finds herself deep in the Missouri woods on a perfect spring day. But there is nothing idyllic about her grim walk - a body has been discovered in a muddy creek, and Detective Jace Budewitz wants Angela on the scene.Terri Gibbons, the popular Forest High track star who went missing eight months ago, has been found strangled. Could a message...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIEPirog, Nick
Summary: A collection of four Thomas Prescott books in a single volume. In Unforeseen, only retired cop Thomas Prescott knows that Tristan Grayer is alive and ready to kill again. In Gray Matter, Prescott sighted a corpse, and now someone is out to kill him. In The Afrikaans, Prescott races to discover the truth behind a hostage crisis. In Show Me, Prescott hears of a cold case murder that is considered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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2 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC PIRTwain, Mark
Summary: Set in a 19th-century town along the Mississippi River, Mark Twain's classic and much-loved novel presents a young and mischievous boy, Tom Sawyer, and his numerous antics. Through adventures and a cast of colorful characters, Tom learns much about becoming a young man even while clinging to his boyhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Follows Huckleberry Finn's adventures along the Mississippi River with Jim, a runaway slave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1984
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Summary: With his mother working long hours and in pain from a romantic break-up, eighteen-year-old Logan feels alone and unloved until a zany new student arrives at his small-town Missouri high school, keeping a big secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KATWoodrell, Daniel.
Summary: In 1929, Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the maid for a prominent family in Missouri, chases down justice after her younger sister is one of forty-two people killed in a mysterious explosion at a local dance hall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: In the all-white Missouri town of "Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The 'miracle boy' died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn't become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MILTwain, Mark
Summary: The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 0000
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Summary: The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1994
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Summary: "A young man coming of age in the Civil War, riding tall with the Texas Rangers, and becoming one of the greatest gunfighters of his time"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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Summary: Patrick and Beth arrive on an orphan train, heading west. They befriend an orphan who is falsely accused of being part of a train robbery. No one will adopt the child. Patrick and Beth stay with their new friend until the end of the line. All the while, they search for Eugene, who is missing somewhere in time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale 2016
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Summary: It all started as a supper club, a group gathering monthly to share homemade dinners, until the night one woman made a startling revelation. After that, the "Confession Club" decided to meet weekly to feast not only on dinner, but on admissions of misdeeds, embarrassments, and insecurities. When Iris Winters and Maddy Harris are invited to the club, they find that it's just what each of them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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Summary: It all started as a supper club, a group gathering monthly to share homemade dinners, until the night one woman made a startling revelation. After that, the "Confession Club" decided to meet weekly to feast not only on dinner, but on admissions of misdeeds, embarrassments, and insecurities. When Iris Winters and Maddy Harris are invited to the club, they find that it's just what each of them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "It all started as a supper club, a group gathering monthly to share homemade dinners, until the night one woman made a startling revelation. After that, the 'Confession Club'decided to meet weekly to feast not only on dinner, but on admissions of misdeeds, embarrassments, and insecurities. When Iris Winters and Maddy Harris are invited to the club, they find that it's just what each of them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BERTwain, Mark
Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: Follows Adair, the daughter of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks, who is wrongly accused of enemy collaboration by the Union militia, as she falls in love with her interrogator and embarks on a periloous journey to find her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILPlantinga, Adam
Summary: "Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go-and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GCP, Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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Contents: Going home -- On her own -- Dear to me -- Allison's journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014