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When Ruth Neufeld's husband and father-in-law are killed working for a relief organization overseas, she travels to Wisconsin with her young daughters and mother-in-law Mabel to bury her husband. She hopes the Mennonite community will be a quiet place to grieve and piece together next steps. Ruth and her family are welcomed by Elam, her husband's cousin, who invites them to stay at his cranberry farm through the harvest. Sifting through fields of...
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In 1928, the Bonaventure Circus has become a refuge for many, but Pippa Ripley was rejected from its inner circle as a baby and is no longer content to leave the reason for that rejection unquestioned. When she receives mysterious messages from someone called the "Watchman," she is determined to find him and the connection to her birth. As Pippa's search leads her to a man seeking justice for his murdered sister and evidence that a serial killer has...
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World War II has ended, and everyone is pursuing peacetime's bright promise. Newly-arrived in a small Wisconsin town, Christina Tucker wants to put her wartime nursing skills to use. But helping a shell-shocked veteran recover tests her determination and disturbs town memories best left buried. She turns to her patient's seemingly-irresponsible brother, Tyler Sutter. A restless ex-soldier, Tyler can't believe this pretty nurse can heal his family....
65) The Bone house
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Cab Bolton novels volume 1
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English
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Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off the Lake Michigan coast. Hilary Bradley is determined to prove that Mark is innocent, but sheś on a lonely, dangerous quest.
66) Once was a time
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In World War II England, ten-year-old Lottie is transported via a portal to present day Wisconsin, where she must find her way back to her family and her best friend, Kitty.
68) Dead center
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 5
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English
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Attorney Andy Carpenter reluctantly returns to the side of his Wisconsin cop ex-girlfriend to assist in the defense of a young man who may be innocent, a case that is complicated by the secrets of a mysterious religious group.
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2024.
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English
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"Eli North is not okay. His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his marriage and career are over, and the only job he can hold down is with the local sheriff's department. And that's only because the sheriff is his mother--and she's overwhelmed with small town Shaky Lake's dwindling budget and the fallout from the opioid epidemic. The Northwoods of Wisconsin may be a vacationer's...
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Adventures of the Northwoods volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Kate plans a birthday party for her stepbrother Anders and gets involved in the mysterious disappearance of items from the Erickson household.
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Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Lauren Sheehan's career in medicine came to a halt after a sequence of violent events abroad. Now she's back in the safest place she knows--St. Helens, Wisconsin--cut off from career, friendship, and romance. Ben Hanson's aimless life bottomed out when he went to prison. But after his release, a surprising offer from his father draws him home. In Wisconsin, he finds his family fractured, still unable to face the truth behind his troubled cousin's...
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In this psychological thriller with supernatural overtones, a young couple, Conrad and Joanna Harrison, attempt to save their marriage by starting anew in a rural turn-of-the-century former birthing house. One day when Jo is away at work, the former owner bequeaths a photo album that belongs to the house.
73) Wisconsin!
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Pub. Date
1987
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English
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Famous rough-rider Toby Holt battles the wealthy lumber barons of Milwaukee, including a ruthless enemy obsessed with destroying Holt and his enterprise, to build a lumber operation in the forests of Wisconsin.
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2017
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English
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In this novel authorized by the Little House Heritage Trust, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before-Caroline Ingalls, "Ma" in Laura Ingalls Wilders beloved Little House books.In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts...
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Snowflake sisters volume 1
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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They say there’s no place like home for the holidays...but Poppy McGuire is done with all that! Her sisters are suffocating, and her father hasn’t done anything for himself in years. What she needs is a change—of pace, of heart, of attitude. ...and so she flees to an isolated Wisconsin cabin, determined to get through to a Happy Solo New Year’s. At first, Poppy’s blissful solitude is only interrupted by a few welcome distractions in the...
76) Escape to Masada
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Left Behind (Young adult). The kids volume 31
Left Behind. The kids volume 31
Left behind the kids volume 31
Left Behind. The kids volume 31
Left behind the kids volume 31
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Believers flee the city of Jerusalem after it becomes clear that the Global Community forces will attack, while in Wisconsin, a strange disease strikes the people who have Nicolae Carpathia's mark.
77) Abraham
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Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Known as "The Peanut Butter Brothers" for their Wisconsin family business, hardworking Andrew, Abraham, and Austin Petersheim have their plates too full for romance--until their little siblings decide to play matchmaker... With their house full to bursting since Mammi and Dawdi moved back in, the Petersheim twins know the only way to get their bedroom back is to get their older brothers married off. But Abraham is so shy, he'll barely speak to girls....
79) The curiosities
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Nell Parker has a Ph.D. in art history, a loving husband named Josh, and a bungalow in Madison, Wisconsin. But Nell's last pregnancy ended in the second trimester, and her husband encourages her to apply for jobs rather than pause to grieve, believing she needs something to focus on other than the baby that may never be. Finding a job turns out to be difficult for an art historian—until Nell sees the ad seeking a director for a new nonprofit called...
80) Dark Dude
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.