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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur Trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older...
2) On her own
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Brides of Webster County volume 2
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English
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Barbara Zook was devastated when her husband David was killed. Will she be able to raise their four young boys and manage her beloved David's harness store on her own? When harness maker Paul Hilty arrives in Webster County, Missouri, he finds himself agreeing to help run Barbara's shop. Things are going fairly well until widower Bishop John Frey comes a-courting Barbara, and Paul's jealousy takes everyone by surprise. Will Paul try to beat out the...
3) Going home
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English
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Faith Stutzman Andrews ran away from her Amish home in Webster County, Missouri, ten years ago to chase an unusual dream - that of being an entertainer on the English stage. After enduring an abusive marriage, Faith is now widowed and arrives back on her parents' doorstep, hoping they'll provide a stable home for her six-year-old daughter while Faith goes back on the comedy club tour.
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Elmwood Springs volume 3
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English
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Back in Elmwood Springs, Missouri the experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ask the question "Why are we here"?
5) Home at last
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English
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"... Can Shayla and Link overcome society's view of their differences and find true love? Is there hope of changing the sometimes-ugly world around them into something better for them all?"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming....
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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While Kansas and Missouri clash in fierce battle over slavery, the Hartmans learn that blood is not thicker than water. They are compelled to choose sides in a conflict so overwhelming it threatens to unravel their family ties. Before the war ends, family members will die, others will vow revenge, traitors will reveal themselves -- and one Hartman will decide whether to expose a plot that could tip the balance of the war. There would be no turning...
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Orphan Train adventures volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who takes refuge with the Kelly family in Missouri after fleeing the attack on Lawrence, Kansas, by William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders.
10) Borderland
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Series
The borderland trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Before the Civil War divided the land, the land divided a proud family. Will Hartman's sons and daughters were a fierce and determined American family, with a legacy of honor and a bold dream to build new lives on the Missouri frontier. But long before America declared itself at war over the issue of slavery, Kansas and Missouri were already in pitched battle across their shared border. John Brown's bloody raids into Missouri were answered with retaliatory...
11) No way out
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English
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Ellie Bowman barely remembers the incident that put her into a coma. When she awoke, filled with unease, all she knew for certain was that her boyfriend, Rick, was missing. She knew she needed to get away from her old life and recover in safety. With the proceeds of a video game she helped develop, Ellie starts over in rural Missouri, working from her cottage and trusting no one except her friend and business partner. Yet even in this quiet small...
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English
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From two-time Spur Award-winning author Jim R. Woolard, a lyrical, violent, visceral Civil War epic filled with vivid historical details, gripping adventure, and raw human drama... Set in the final months of the American Civil War, this powerhouse of a novel from award-winning author and master historian Jim R. Woolard follows a young man's harrowing journey from Confederate captive to Union prisoner to unchained force of vengeance. Autumn, 1864....
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011, c2003
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English
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In 1860 Missouri, young Daniel Wade purposely avoids all the militia factions cropping up around him. One group has allied itself with the Southern causes in case secession from the Union occurs. Another group is committed to protecting the Union. When the Civil War finally comes to his doorstep, young Daniel decides to throw in with the Union forces -- a decision that costs him dearly.
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Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 1
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
[1998], c1984
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English
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"The grandson of a U.S. senator has been brazenly kidnapped out of a hotel room in St. Louis. His life has been threatened if the senator cannot raise the ransom money, an exorbitant amount even he can't scrape together. Ultimately, the boy's fate falls into the hands of a select group of undercover agents known for their discretion, cleverness, and bravery : the Pinkertons. When Allan Pinkerton realizes the confidential nature of the kidnapping he...
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English
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Charlie and Esther Moore have been married nearly fifty years when the contented life they've built together begins to crumble. Esther has been forgetful recently, but it's rarely a problem until the day she puts her car in drive instead of reverse, flying off the end of the carport and into the backyard. Esther's accident and declining health shatter their reverie, and the couple must come to terms with all the paths their lives have not taken if...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Nick Graves ran wild for years before he turned respectable and began plying his father's trade. Now he buries the dead for a living -- but the past won't die. A killer he once rode with wants Graves to pay for his desertion, and he means to hit Nick where he's most vulnerable: his family. But this time Nick's going to make sure that what's dead stays dead.
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"Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission. In a community where dissent of any form is discouraged, Emma finds it difficult to rein in her tongue and often doesn't even try to do so, fueling...
20) Long bow
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Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Long Bow Ranch was huge, even by standards of landholdings west of the Missouri River. The Long Bow riders couldn't patrol the entire ranch -- it was just too big -- and they were losing cattle in the Lost River Country to the Arapaho. When ranch owner old Jim Welsh had had enough, he went directly to the Arapaho and over four parlays, came to an agreement -- the Arapaho would take no more than ten cattle a year. And that arrangement was still in...