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Antisocial personality disorders Fiction City and town life Fiction City and town life Middle West Fiction Good and evil Fiction Married women Fiction Memory disorders Patients Fiction Middle West Middle West Fiction Parent and adult child Fiction Parkinson's disease Patients FictionDeLillo, Don.
Summary: The Gladney's family life is disrupted and threatened when an industrial accident sends a lethal cloud over their community. Jack Gladney struggles with the ensuing complications which include murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1985
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELBrown, Dee Alexander.
Summary: During the Civil War, a young man battles Indians, bandits and deserters as he escorts two camels, loaded with war loot across Kansas and Missouri. On the way he meets a boy who turns out to be a girl and falls in love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROGunty, Tess
Summary: The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck. C8 harbors an extraordinary fear. But C4 is of particular interest. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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5 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GuntyLundgren, Eric
Summary: When his opera-singing wife goes missing, Sven Norberg must search the underworld of the declining Midwestern city of Trude, where he encounters a cop called the Oracle, shifty music critics, rebellious librarians, and cult-like church members who have recruited his son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNEnger, Leif
Summary: Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ENGWingate, Lisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINEnger, Leif
Summary: "An enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ENGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ENGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ENGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction EngerCollins, Michael
Summary: Discovering the dead body of a young child, a victim of an apparent hit-and-run accident, a police officer conducts a covert investigation when the case is thwarted by both the mayor and the police chief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLEnger, Leif
Summary: Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ENGFranzen, Jonathan
Summary: It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAWilliams, John Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2003
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Summary: George Marvin Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is determined to lead a virtuous life, despite peddling his wares in less than virtuous places during the Great Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILDawson, J. R.
Summary: "If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today? "This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life."--Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway Ringmaster -- Rin, to those who know her best -- can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze. And the circus they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWWells, Dan
Summary: John and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the Midwest - but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind. With each new town, each new truck stop, each new highway, they get closer to a vicious killer who defies every principle of profiling and prediction John knows how to use. Meanwhile, Brooke's fractured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WELHoffman, Dustin M.
Summary: "Set in the Midwest, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist tells the stories of everyday, blue-collar workers with dark humor and a gritty, experimental style, revealing the absurdity of the daily grind and its crushing reality" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCrane, Ben
Summary: Barrett Rye has always been told he can be only one thing in an enforcer. He's a seven-foot wall of muscle and the most effective collector in the largest criminal enterprise in the Midwest. After he realizes he wants more out of life than hurting people, he and his mob accountant boyfriend, Mickey, decide to steal enough money from their boss to disappear and start over. But they get caught,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAWells, Dan
Summary: John and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the Midwest-but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind. With each new town, each new truck stop, each new highway, they get closer to a vicious killer who defies every principle of profiling and prediction John knows how to use, and meanwhile Brooke's fractured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Franzen, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRAFranzen, Jonathan.
Summary: Enid Lambert begins to worry about her husband when he begins to withdraw and lose himself in negativity and depression as he faces Parkinson's disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRAThompson, Jean
Summary: Across three generations, the women of the Wise family hunt for contentment amid chaos of their own making. Evelyn set aside her career to marry, and motherhood never became her. Her daughter Laura discovers her husband Gabe expects too much of everyone in his life, especially his musician son. Grace has moved out from Laura and Gabe's house, but can't seem to live up to her potential--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOMeyers, Kent.
Summary: A truck loaded with cattle crashes into some shops and a bank in a Midwestern town, killing the farmer at the wheel and his wife who intended to leave him. An accident or suicide? Nine townspeople, from the local doctor to the local crazy, give their views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Mind Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYGaylord, Joshua A. (Joshua Alden)
Summary: "When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she wouldn't have guessed she would become a kind suburban wife, a devoted mother. In fact, she never thought she would escape her small and peculiar hometown. When We Were Animals is Lumen's confessional: as a well-behaved and over-achieving teenager, she fell beneath the sway of her community's darkest, strangest secret. For one year, beginning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAYLetts, Billie.
Summary: "Billie Letts takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the best and worst of America's heartland as she tells a story of two abandoned children desperately searching for people to call family and a place to call home"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LetBarnhill, Kelly Regan
Summary: "Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family. "Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters." A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mother, a talented artist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom 2023