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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The classic story of a boy who makes his own rules and the small Missouri town where he and his friends experience the adventures of a lifetime. Filled with schoolyard pranks, buried treasures, spooky caves, secret gangs, and grave robbers, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is entertainment of the highest order. The clever schemes of its eponymous hero--from tricking his friends into completing his chores to sneaking into his own funeral--are the stuff...
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 1
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours comes a heartfelt novel about the bonds of family and the power of second chances.
When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother’s Missouri farm with her husband and baby son, she learns that the lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. The family has given Kate the job...
When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother’s Missouri farm with her husband and baby son, she learns that the lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. The family has given Kate the job...
5) No way out
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to remember the accident that left her in a coma and led to her boyfriend's disappearance, video game developer Ellie Bowman starts over in rural Missouri, before an inexplicable reunion threatens everything she has rebuilt.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is at her superb best in this fun-loving, moving novel about what it means to be truly alive.
WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE
Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it’s called, is anything but still....
WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE
Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it’s called, is anything but still....
Author
Series
Adventures of young Joseph Williams volume 3
Publisher
Deseret Book Company
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recently settled in the Mormon community of Far West in northern Missouri, sixteen-year-old Joseph Williams begins to fear that the growing hostility of the old settlers towards the Mormons will force them to move again.
Author
Series
Triple threat series (Irene Hannon) volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Forensic pathologist Grace Reilly has seen her share of unusual deaths in rural Missouri. But when she begins to notice a curious pattern in autopsies of older residents whose demises appear to be natural, she takes her concerns to Sheriff Nate Cox. Nate is skeptical about the link Grace is seeing between the deaths, as well as her suspicions of foul play. But her persistence is compelling. And once they join forces to investigate, danger follows...
Author
Series
Change and cherish volume 1
Language
English
Description
The first book in the Change and Cherish trilogy from the CBA bestseller and WILLA Literary Award Winner, Jane Kirkpatrick.
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...
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...
Author
Series
Adventures of young Joseph Williams volume 2
Publisher
Deseret Book Company
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an angry mob drives Joseph Williams and his family from Jackson County, the twelve-year-old must face conflicts within his family, his own unsteady faith, and his growing desire for adventure as a riverboat pilot on the Missouri River.
11) Dark ambitions
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Series
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
Former Army Night Stalker Rick Jordan usually has his camp for foster children to himself during the winter months. But someone has visited recently leaving a trail of blood. One of the two clues left behind tips Rick off to the identity of his visitor, who soon turns up dead. The police deem it an accident, but Rick isn't convinced. With the help of private investigator Heather Shields, he sets out to decipher the remaining clue. Except someone...
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Karen Sommerfield is suddenly forced to deal with the threat of cancer at the same time her company downsizes her, she returns to the rural Missouri Ozarks and her grandmother's old farm on an odyssey to find herself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Now that their kids are grown, Audrey and Grant Whitman have converted their home into a cozy bed-and-breakfast. But then their youngest daughter shows up during opening weekend with a loaded U-Haul--and no husband. Now they'll have to figure out how to help the young couple in addition to running a new inn"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three Irish immigrant children, orphaned in a tenement fire, are sent on the orphan train to Missouri where they are adopted by different families, and although Maelle had vowed to one day reunite with her younger brother and sister, seventeen years later she is about to give up hope.
16) Bloody bones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Preternatural expert Anita Blake is hired to raise a couple of two-hundred-year-old corpses to settle a dispute over who owns the land they are buried in, but she runs into trouble when she realizes she has stumbled into the middle of someone else's spell.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Bobby Smith, son of the local pharmacist and the host of the radio show "Neighbor Dorothy," grows to manhood in Elmwood, Missouri, observing the people and the changes that affect the small town in the decades after the end of World War II.
18) Small town girl
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer, "famous for her heartrending slices of Americana," is at her best in this sweet, small-town romance about a country music star discovering the true meaning of love ...
Eighteen years ago, Tess McPhail left her tiny hometown of Wintergreen, Missouri, for the bright lights of Nashville and never looked back. Now, one of country music's biggest stars, "Mac" is a hardworking woman with little time for...
Author
Series
Mason novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri, decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. The plan for congenial evenings--talking, laughing, and sharing recipes, homemade food, and wine-- abruptly changes course one night when one of the women reveals something startlingly intimate. The supper club then becomes Confession Club, and the women gather weekly to share not only dinners but embarrassing misdeeds, deep insecurities,...
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
" Laura Rose White is one of the most gifted riverboat pilots on the Missouri River--her late father taught her and her brother Joe everything he knew, and even named their family's riverboat after her. But in 1867, the idea of a "skirt" being a captain is unheard of. At least until Joe takes ill and dies in the middle of a trip, leaving Laura grieving and halfway upriver with a full cargo. She successfully takes charge of the crew and expertly guides...
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